An edition of A Treasury of five minute stories
(2000)
A treasury of five-minute stories
by Fiona Waters and Lawrence, John
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There's always time for a story ... From a big bear who loves hugs to a little worm who longs to glow - here are over twenty stories from some of today's favourite authors. Perfect for reading aloud, every tale here has the power to entertain and delight a child in just five minutes. This varied collection proves even the shortest stories can be a special time!
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Table of Contents
Hetty / Anne Fine
The strange egg / Margaret Mahy
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse / Aesop ; retold by Fiona Waters
The glass cupboard / Terry Jones
A blind man catches a bird / Alexander McCall Smith
The bear who liked hugging people / Ruth Ainsworth
Zap! / Dick King-Smith
The man who didn't wash his dishes / Phyllis Krasilovsky
The woman who grew butterflies / Wendy Eyton
The soup-stone / Leila Berg
The thirteen cats / Daphne Lister
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving ; retold by Fiona Waters
Happy birthday, Nana Barbara! / Pippa Goodhart
Keeping warmth in a bag : a Native American tale / retold by Fiona Waters
Eggs / Joan Aiken
Brer Rabbit to the rescue / Julius Lester
Milly-Molly-Mandy goes blackberrying / Joyce Lankester Brisley
Ally Bally and the magic bag / Tony Mitton
There's no such thing as fairy
/ Simon Puttock
The hunted hare : an English folk tale / retold by Ethel Johnston Phelps
What's the time, Rory Wolf? / Gillian McClure
How the camel got his hump / Rudyard Kipling.
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A collection of traditional and original stories that can be read aloud in five minutes, including tales from Alaska, Japan, and Africa and works by Dick King-Smith and Margaret Mahy.
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