The Puffin treasury of children's stories
1996, 1st edition. England : Viking/Puffin. Near fine colour-printed copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #399306
ISBN: 0670870099
Physical description; viii, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes; "Stories selected and introduced by Anna Trentner"--facing title page. Includes index. Contents; The tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter -- The emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- The runaway reptiles / Margaret Mahy -- Just so stories / Rudyard Kipling -- Little women / Louisa May Alcott -- The once and future king / T.H. White -- Humblepuppy / Joan Aiken -- The wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum -- The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis -- The Hodgeheg / Dick King-Smith -- Alice in wonderland / Lewis Carroll -- Spotty powder / Roald Dahl -- What Katy did / Susan Coolidge -- Winnie-the-Pooh / A.A. Milne -- The happy prince / Oscar Wilde -- The cuckoo clock / Mrs Molesworth -- Charlotte's web / E.B. White -- Adding up to zero / Helen Cresswell -- The railway children / E. Nesbit -- Black beauty / Anna Sewell -- The hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Clever Polly and the stupid wolf / Catherine Storr -- Bedknob and broomstick / Mary Norton -- Orlando the marmalade cat / Kathleen Hale -- It's too frightening for me / Shirley Hughes -- The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame -- The jack pot / Allan Ahlberg -- A christmas carol / Charles Dickens -- Mr Majeika and the ghost hunter / Humphrey Carpenter -- Pollyanna / Eleanor H. Porter -- The worst witch / Jill Murphy -- The secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The one hundred and one dalmations / Dodie Smith -- Professor Branestawm's christmas tree / Norman Hunter -- Worzel Gammidge / Barbara Euphan Todd -- The frog prince / Brothers Grimm. Subjects; Children's stories. Illustrated children's books. Histoires pour enfants. Children's fiction. Fairy tales. Nostalgic stories. Children's literature.
Price: €12.95