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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children ...
Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [ 4 ]
The books are short stories with colorful illustrations that have a moral perspective. Cosgrove wrote the books after searching for an easy to read book with a message to read to his then three-year-old daughter. After finding primarily large expensive books, Cosgrove teamed up with illustrator James to create low cost softcover books.
Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]
Every parent’s primary goal is to raise a decent human, but didactic speeches about right and wrong aren’t exactly in the cards when you’re dealing with a kid who can’t tear himself away ...
The story takes place in the fictional Wayside School, a school that was meant to be built one story tall with 30 classrooms all in a row, but was instead built 30 stories tall with a single classroom on each floor, save for the nonexistent nineteenth story. The book is primarily set in Mrs. Jewls' class, which is located on the thirtieth story ...
Some editions are entitled Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children. The book is an expanded version of Nesbit's earlier book, The Children's Shakespeare (1897), a collection of twelve tales likewise based on plays by William Shakespeare.
One scholar describes the book as "a story about language", such as the "dialect of the illiterate people", and the "literary aspirations of the dragon". [3] The story also has an opening scene in which a little girl named Charlotte (a character from Grahame's The Golden Age) and a grown-up character find mysterious reptilian footprints in the snow and follow them, eventually finding a man who ...