The Puffin Book Of Stories For 8 Year Olds

By Terry Jones, Cooling, Joan Aiken, Janet McNeill, Margaret Greaves, Michael Rosen, Wendy Cooling, Gene Kemp, Anita Desai, Ursula Moray Williams, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rosalind Kerven, Judith Elkin, Max Beerbohm, Irene Hedlund, Adle Geras

This work contains a collection of stories aimed at eight-year-olds as a young Puffin read-aloud book. Contents: A Picnic With the Aunts - Ursula Moray Williams The Story of the Small Boy and the B...

Read-To-Me Treasury, The

By JOHN MAGUIRE, David L. Harrison, Jenny Koralek, Dick King-Smith, Toni Goffe, Michael Rosen, Ann Cameron, Tony Ross, Mary Rayner, Sarah Hayes, Gabriel Alington, Sally Grindley, Adle Geras, Joyce Gillham, Annette Penny

Here is the ideal gift for concerned parents and grandparents who want to encourage their children to read. These fourteen fun-filled short stories are perfect for bedtime or laptime. They are humo...

A Christmas Tree Of Stories

By Susan Gates, Rob Childs, Tessa Krailing, Jean Ure, Et Al, Aileen Peterson, Gillian Cross, Malorie Blackman, Adle Geras

Everyone loves the presents under the Christmas tree. Here are eight parcels ready to be opened again and again. Who knows what the reader will find inside them? Perhaps an angel or two, maybe a ba...

Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired By Original Artwork

By Alex Flinn, John Green, William Sleator, Jaime Adoff, Margaret Peterson Haddix, David Lubar, M. T. Anderson, Marilyn Singer, Bruce Coville, Sarah Dessen, Nancy Werlin, GENE BREWER, Audrey Couloumbis, Scott Hunt, Ron Koertge, Ellen Wittlinger, Jan Marino, Adle Geras, Neal Shusterman, Scott W. Hunt

A girl dresses in a bunny costume to earn her dad's approval…A boy bakes a cake and takes out his dad in the same afternoon…These are just two of the offbeat and utterly captivating scenarios reade...

Doll'S House (Longman Book Project)

By Adèle Geras, Wendy Body, Adele Geras, Adle Geras

General Sue Palmer Fiction Editor and Language Wendy BodyThe Longman Book Project for ages 4-11: Inspires children with an unparalleled variety of fiction by significant childrens authors and illus...

Puffin Book Of Five Minute Stories

By Steve Cox, Allan Ahlberg, Dick King-Smith, Margaret Mahy, Adle Geras, Vivian French, Charles Perrault

A collection of 19 five-minute stories. This anthology contains a mixture of old and new, including Perrault's "Little Red Riding Hood", Mahy's "Horrendous Hullabaloo" and King-Smith's "Blessu".

Cleopatra

By Adèle Geras, Adle Geras

Magic Beans.

By Susan Gates, Michael Morpurgo, Anne Fine, Adèle Geras, Jacqueline Wilson, Berlie Doherty, Debi Gliori, Linda Newbery, Sue Heap, Alan Garner, Gillian Cross, Michael Foreman, Henrietta Branford, Tony Mitton, Nick Sharratt, IAN BECK, Adele Geras, James Mayhew, Nick Maland, Peter Bailey, Patrice Aggs, Lesley. Harker, Bee Willey, Kit Wright, Ted Dewan, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman, Adle Geras, Sin Bailey

Magic beans. Sow them. Plant them. Watch children grow. 'If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come si...

Daughters Of Time

By Sue Purkiss, Katherine Roberts, Marie-Louise Jensen, Katherine Langrish, Anne Rooney, Catherine Johnson, Penny Dolan, Celia Rees, Dianne Hofmeyr, Joan Lennon, Leslie Wilson, Mary Hoffman, Adle Geras

Look through fresh eyes at the stories of some of history's most remarkable women, in this inspiring collection of short stories by the finest female authors writing historical fiction for children...

Tennis Shoes

By Noel Streatfeild, Adle Geras, D.L. Mays

Tennis became important in the Heath Family's life early on -- the twins were only nine, and the others younger when they started to play. But their grandfather and father before them had been top...