The best-loved young heroes in literature! The Kingfisher Book of Classic Boy Stories celebrates favourite boy characters in one brilliant book. Now available in paperback for the first time, this collection will appeal to a new generation of readers. The carefully chosen extracts offer the perfect introduction to characters who have delighted and inspired generations of readers. Each is perfect for reading aloud to younger children, and richly satisfying for the more confident reader to enjoy on their own.

 

This book is part of a book series called Stories .

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

Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Stevie Smith, John Lennon and Jo Shapcott.

This book has the following chapters: Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne; Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown; Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie; Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl; The Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo; The Iron Man - Ted Hughes; Just William - Richmal Crompton; The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis; Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce; The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling; My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George; Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson; Beowulf: Dragonslayer - Rosemary Sutcliff; Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.