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Great Illustrated Classics are praised here

2026-05-09 · 01:27 UTC ·@HannahWardEdu ·0 min read

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Great Illustrated Classics are praised here: HannahWardEdu reports her children "adore" the series and credits it with building background knowledge and reading fluency. Joshua D. Phillips (@JoshPhillipsPhD) adds a May 9, 2026 memory of growing up with roughly 70 volumes bought from a Walmart bin, which his brother acquired.

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My kids adore these. Great for building background knowledge and reading fluency.

Joshua D Phillips (@JoshPhillipsPhD)

We didn’t have a lot of money growing up. But my parents always let us buy books

There was a bin (not a shelf) at our local Walmart full of the Great Illustrated Classics books. Just a giant pile. In all, we probably had 70 books from this series

*My brother got all of them 🙄

— https://nitter.net/JoshPhillipsPhD/status/2052912737420706157#m