There's always time for a story...Children love storytime - especially when their parents have time to share it with them. This anthology contains 22 delightful stories, all carefully selected to be both brief and entertaining. It is perfect for parents struggling to make time for reading with their children. Ideal for reading aloud at bedtime or any time, and accessible enough for newly independent readers to tackle alone, every tale from this versatile collection has the power to transport children to other worlds, introduce them to unforgettable characters, and feed their imaginations - in just five minutes!

 

This is volume 22 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 .

Fiona Waters has worked in children's books for many years. She is an experienced writer of children's fiction and non-fiction. John Lawrence has contributed to over one hundred books for children and adults as an illustrator and wood-engraver. Twice Winner of the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award, his illustrated titles include The Mysteries of Zigomar by Allan Ahlberg; Christmas in Exeter Street and the Walker Treasure A Year and a Day.

This book has the following chapters: Hetty - Anne Fine; The Strange Egg - Margaret Mahy; The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse - Aesop retold by Fiona Waters; The Glass Cupboard - Terry Jones; A Blind Man Catches a Bird - Alexander McCall Smith; The Bear Who Liked Hugging People - Ruth Ainsworth; Zap! - Dick King-Smith; The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes - Phyllis Krasilovsky; The Woman Who Grew Butterflies - Wendy Eyton; The Soup-Stone - Leila Berg; The Thirteen Cats - Daphne Lister; Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving, retold by Fiona Waters; Happy Birthday, Nana Barbara! - Pippa Goodhart; Keeping Warmth in a Bag - A Native American tale retold by Fiona Waters; Eggs - Joan Aiken; Brer Rabbit to the Rescue - Julius Lester; Milly-Molly-Mandy Goes Blackberrying - Joyce Lankester Brisley; Ally Bally and the Magic Bag - Tony Mitton; There's No Such Thing as a Fairy. - Simon Puttock; The Hunted Hare - An English folk tale retold by Ethel Johnston Phelps; What's the Time, Rory Wolf? - Gillian McClure; How the Camel Got His Hump - Rudyard Kipling