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Issue Details

Issue #563
Published December 1959
Cover Price $0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Meyer A. Kaplan (executive editor); Roberta Strauss (Editor); Diane Alexander (assoc. editor)
Notes Indexed from copy with Highest Reorder Number of 563 (assumed first printing).

Cover Details - "The Wishing Well"

Genre Fairy Tale; Fantasy; Children
Colors ? (painted)
Notes Indexed from copy with Highest Reorder Number of 563 (assumed first printing).

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Next"

Synopsis Cover of next issue (The Salt Mountain). Also Statement of Ownership and indicia.
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28 page story "The Wishing Well"

Synopsis A young man discovers a magic ax, a magic walnut and a magic spade and wins the hand of a princess.
Genre Fairy Tale; Fantasy; Children
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2 page Aesop's Fables story "Aesop's Fables: The Boy Bathing"

Synopsis A boy is drowning but the man on the shore stops to lecture him.
Genre Parable; Fantasy; Children
Script Aesop (adapted from)
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1 page Nursery Rhyme story "There was a Young Lady Whose Nose"

Synopsis Limerick by Edward Lear illustrated.
Genre Nursery Rhyme; Fantasy; Children
Script Edward Lear
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1 page The Animal World character profile "The Alpaca"

Synopsis Facts about the alpaca.
Genre Animal; Fact
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1 page activity "Color This Picture With Crayons"

Synopsis Same image as cover but in black and white for coloring.
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1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "The Wonderful World of Fairy Tales"

Synopsis Ad for other Classics Illustrated Junior titles that were available. Highest reorder number is 563.
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