Twenty-four top tales! A brilliant collection, specially selected to appeal to four year olds. The collection features a host of famous and best-loved children's writers including Dick King-Smith, Italo Calvino, Alison Lurie, Leila Berg, Joan Aiken, Margaret Mahy and Russell Hoban. Each story is wittily illustrated with lively half-tone artwork by Caroline Dinan. From the everyday to the amazing, her are stories about a paper palace, a thin king, a toy donkey, a very fierce bear and a flying apple pie. This wideranging anthology of funny and exciting stories is sure to enthrall and entertain all young readers.

 

This is volume 24 in Kingfisher Treasury Of Stories .

There are 160 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2005 by Pan Macmillan .

Edward Blishen was a recognised expert authority on children's literature. In 1970, he won the Carnegie Medal jointly with Leon Garfield for The God Beneath the Sea. He also compiled the acclaimed anthology, Children's Classics to Read Aloud, published by Kingfisher. Together with his wife Nancy he compiled several anthologies for Kingfisher, including The Kingfisher Treasury of Stories for Children. Edward Blishen died in 1996. Edward and Nancy Blishen have long been recognized as expert authorities on children's literature. In 1970, Edward Blishen won the Carnegie Medal (jointly with Leon Garfield) for The God Beneath the Sea. He also compiled the acclaimed anthology, Children's Classics to Read Aloud, published by Kingfisher. Together, Edward and Nancy Blishen compiled several treasuries for Kingfisher, including The Kingfisher Treasury of Stories for Children and the age-ranged Treasury of Stories for. series. Nancy Blishen lives in Hertfordshire.

This book has the following chapters: The Adventures of Little Mouse - Margaret Mahy; My Naughty Little Sister Goes to the Pantomime - Dorothy Edwards; Five - Barbara Sleigh; The Little Brute Family - Russell Hoban; Little Dog Turpie - Leila Berg; A Bed for Tiny Ted - Margaret Joy; The Thin King and the Fat Cook - Donald Bisset; One Very Small Foot - Dick King-Smith; Horace - Alice B. Coats; The Easter Surprise - Nancy Blishen; What We Need Is a New Bus - Jean Chapman; The Black Geese - Alison Lurie; Rachel's Cat - Alison Leonard; There's Some Sky in this Pie - Joan Aiken; The Paper Palace - Paul Biegel; The Goose and Her Little Iron House - Italo Calvino; The Limp Little Donkey - Judy Bond; The Hungry Bunyip - Virginia Ferguson; Little Pig and the Hot Dry Summer - Margaret Gore; The Great Supermarket Trolley Race - Edward Blishen; 'Fraidy Mouse - Anne Wellington; Mrs Mopple's Washing Line - Anita Hewett; The Little Dragon and the Snowman - Iris Smith; Harry and the Lady Next Door - Gene Zion.