Designed to be an ideal first collection of story-time tales, the five stories featured in this volume undoubtedly give a good grounding in well-loved children's stories, but they also have original touches. The lively retellings based on traditional stories have characters making funny comments in speech bubbles and loads of fun rhymes that young children will love repeating.In "Chicken Licken" the hysterical chick manages to make everybody panic that the sky is falling in:"Oh, Turkey Lurkey!" cheeps Chicken Licken. The sky is falling down! We're off to tell the king.""I feel horribly wobbly," gobbles Turkey Lurkey. "I'd better come too."Little Red Riding Hood meets the cunning wolf who attempts to gobble her up, while in "The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen" the clever hen is perfectly contented before being disturbed by her nasty new neighbour, the fox. Gullible Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk finds that for his dinner the hungry giant eats "a hundred boiled potatoes, and a hundred chocolate biscuits" and the poor shoemaker in "The Elves and the Shoemaker" becomes very puzzled by the beautiful shoes which keep magically appearing in his workshop.The stories are in large, easy-to-follow text for those learning to read and there are bright, cuddly illustrations for children following the stories being reading aloud.A great-value collection of favourites. --Rachel Ediss

 

There are 144 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Iona Treahy is the author of The Knights of Fix-a-Lot . Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton in 1958. Having read English at Birmingham University, she spent the next nine years teaching at schools in the East End of London, before leaving the profession to write full-time. After providing the words for literally hundreds of photo-stories in teenage magazines, she had her first children's book, `A Medal for Melina', published in 1990. Narinder Dhami lives in Cambridge with her husband, Robert, and their four cats. Mandy Ross has written lots of children's books, as well as poetry and a couple of plays. The Unknown Adventurer is still believed to be at large in the wild. Sam Childs studied Illustration at Hornsey College of Art and has worked as an art teacher and toy maker. She has been an illustrator since 1984.