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Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
E. T. A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was published in 1816 in a German collection of stories for children, Kinder-Märchen. [37] It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [38]
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry (pen name of William Sydney Porter) first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.
More Bones: Scary Stories From Around The World is a 2008 book of children's short stories from around the world. The stories were selected and retold by Arielle North Olson and Howard Schwartz, with illustrations by E.M. Gist. It has been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. [1]
The People Could Fly; Peter and the Piskies; The Peterkin Papers; The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo; Pluk van de Petteflet; Porch Lies; The Pot of Gold and Other Stories; The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales; Homer Price; Prince Silverwings; Professor Shonku (short story collection) Puck of Pook's Hill
The Story of a Short Life, Juliana Horatia Ewing (1885) Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) A World of Girls, L. T. Meade (1886) The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (1888) Friday's Child (1889) Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Andrew Lang (from 1889) Catriona, Robert Louis Stevenson (1893) The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894)
This is a list of short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov. Asimov is principally known for his science fiction, but he also wrote mystery and fantasy stories. This list includes Asimov's Foundation short stories, which were later collected into three novels known as the Foundation Trilogy.
His head was swelling, his lungs cracking. . . . He was no longer quite conscious.” Even when he surfaces, he fears “he would sink now and drown; he could not swim the few feet back to the rock.” In "Through the Tunnel", the literal passage through the rock tunnel becomes a coming-of-age passage for Jerry.