The best-loved girl characters in literature! The Kingfisher Book of Classic Girl Stories brings together all your favourite girl characters in one wonderful volume. 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.

 

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

This book has the following chapters: Milly-Molly-Mandy - Joyce Lankester Brisley; Ramona the Pest - Beverly Cleary; Heidi - Johanna Spyri; The Worst Witch - Jill Murphy; Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder; The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum; A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett; Matilda - Roald Dahl; Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter; Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren; What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll; Seven Little Australians - Ethel Turner; Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery; The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson; Little Women - Louisa May Alcott.