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.
Letters	Typeset

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
Letters	Typeset

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)
Letters	Typeset

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
Letters	Typeset

1 page The Animal World character profile "The Alpaca"

Synopsis	Facts about the alpaca.
Genre	Animal; Fact
Letters	Typeset

1 page activity "Color This Picture With Crayons"

Synopsis	Same image as cover but in black and white for coloring.
Letters	Typeset

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.
Letters	Typeset