# ID these books (Children's book about Greek myths, illustrated book of folk songs) from 1960s

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Just a guess here based on my own childhood memories. Could you have been looking at a couple of volumes of [the Childcraft series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childcraft)?

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