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The Oxford book of children's stories
Title:
The Oxford book of children's stories
Author:
Mark, Jan, 1943-2006.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1993]

©1993
Physical Description:
xix, 450 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:
A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.
Language:
English
Contents:
Story of Celia and Chloe (1749) -- Ill-natured boy (1783) -- Difference and agreement (1792-6) -- Elinor Forester (1809) -- Little blue bag (1825) -- Soffrona and her cat Muff (1828) -- Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies (1839) -- Limby lumpy (c.1840) -- First theft (1847) -- Mother and boy (1853) -- Story of Merrymind (1856) -- Green velvet dress (1858) -- Little daylight (1864) -- Lady who put salt in her coffee (1868) -- Children's joke (1871) -- Nineteen hundred and seventy-two (1872) -- Party in the land of nowhere (1874) -- Two wishes (1877) -- Chicken Lizzie (1878) -- Alf Brownson's shilling (c.1880) -- New mother (1882) -- Griffin and the minor canon (1885) -- Quiquern (1895) -- Schoolboy's apprentice (1897) -- Story of the small boy and the barley-sugar (1897) -- Island of the nine whirlpools (1899) -- Nanina's sheep (1900) -- How a skyscraper and a railroad train got picked up and carried away from Pig's Eye Valley far in the Pickax Mountains (1923) -- Riddle (1923) -- Caravan siege (c.1926) -- Wailing well (1928) -- Aunt Arabelle in charge (1931).

Great bronze tulip (c.1939) -- Lost garda (1946) -- Lobster's birthday (1953) -- Spit Nolan (1961) -- Great blackberry-pick (1972) -- Feeding the cats (1975) -- Oliver Hyde's dishcloth concert (1977) -- She (1984) -- Banana tree (1987) -- Dan, Dan, the scenery man (1989) -- Fabric crafts (1990) -- Convict box (1992).
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ISBN:
9780192142283
Format :
Book