Title:
The Oxford treasury of children's stories
JLCTITLE245:
[compiled by] Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
159 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
ISBN:
9780192781338
Abstract:
An anthology of illustrated children's stories combines the works of such classic authors as Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, and Rudyard Kipling with contemporary authors, including Jill McDonald.
Contents:
A lion in the meadow / Margaret Mahy -- Maggy Scraggle loves the beautiful ice-cream man / Jill McDonald -- Pete and the ladybird / Leila Berg -- A list / Arnold Lobel -- The fish cart / Ruth Manning-Sanders -- The thrush girl / Godfried Bomans -- The giant who threw tantrums / David Harrison -- The knee-high man / Julius Lester -- My naughty little sister makes a bottle-tree / Dorothy Edwards -- The laughing dragon / Richard Wilson -- Bro tiger goes dead / James Berry -- The wonderful tar baby / George Browne -- Simple Peter's Mirror / Terry Jones -- The tinderbox / Hans Christian Andersen -- The dauntless girl / Kevin Crossley-Holland -- The riddlemaster / Catherine Storr -- Think of a word / Joan Aiken -- Mrs. Cockle's cat / Philippa Pearce -- McBroom and the big wind / Sid Fleischman -- The fisherman and the bottle / Gerladine McCaughrean -- The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde -- How the rhinoceros got his skin / Rudyard Kipling -- How the polar bear became / Ted Hughes -- The shrinking of treehorn / Florence Parry Heide -- William's version / Jan Mark -- Paul's tale / Jan Mark.