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Title:
The Oxford book of children's stories
Publication Date as Range:
1993
ISBN:
9780192142283
Physical Description:
xix, 450 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
The story of Celia and Chloe / The ill-natured boy / Difference and agreement / Elinor Forester / The little blue bag / Soffrona and her cat muff / Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies / Limby lumpy The first theft The mother and boy The story of Merrymind / The green velvet dress / Little Daylight / The lady who put salt in her coffee / The children's joke / Nineteen hundred and seventy-two / A party in the Land of Nowhere / The two wishes / Chicken Lizzie / Alf Brownson's shilling The new mother / The griffin and the minor canon / Quiquern / The schoolboy's apprentice / The story of the small boy and the barley-sugar / The Island of the Nine Whirlpools / Nanina's sheep / How a skyscraper and a railroad train got picked up and carried away from Pig's Eye Valley far in the Pickax Mountains / The riddle / The caravan siege / Wailing well / Aunt Arabelle in charge / The great bronze tulip / The lost garda / The lobster's birthday / Spit Nolan / The great blackberry-pick / Feeding the cats / Oliver Hyde's dishcloth concert / She / The banana tree / Dan, Dan, the scenery man / Fabric crafts / The convict box
Abstract:
A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.
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