"The Kingfisher Treasury of Classic Stories" brings together all the very best stories in children's literature - all the stories that have inspired generations of readers - in one sumptuous volume. The extracts are satisfying in themselves and provide a taster to encourage children to seek out the complete stories from which they come. Each is accessible to the young child being read aloud to, and richly satisfying to the more confident reader. The definitive collection - a perfect gift for any child.

 

This book is part of a book series called Stories .

There are 320 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2006 by Pan Macmillan .

Rosemary Sandberg has worked in children's literature for many years. Formerly Children's Publisher at HarperCollins, she is now one of the UK's leading children's literary agents, with an impressive list of clients on both sides of the Atlantic. She lives and works in London. 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; The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame; Milly-Molly-Mandy - Joyce Lankester Brisley; Ramona the Pest - Beverley Cleary; Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie; Heidi - Johanna Spyri; Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi; The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy; Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl; The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum; The Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo; A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett; The Iron Man - Ted Hughes; Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter; Just William - Richmal Crompton; Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren; The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis; What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll; Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce; The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling; The Call of the Wild - Jack London; Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner; My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George; Beowulf: Dragonslayer - Rosemary Sutcliff; Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery; Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens; The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson; Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson; Black Beauty - Anna Sewell; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain; Little Women - Louisa May Alcott.