This work contains a collection of stories aimed at eight-year-olds as a young Puffin read-aloud book.
Contents:
A Picnic With the Aunts - Ursula Moray Williams
The Story of the Small Boy and the Barley-Sugar - Max Beerbohm
The Girl Who Stayed for Half a Week - Gene Kemp
King Midas - Geraldine McCaughrean
A Fish of the World - Terry Jones
Dog, Cat and Monkey - Michael Rosen
Mighty Mountain and the Three Strong Women - Irene Hedlund and Judith Elkin
Tsipporah - Adèle Geras
The Palace of Boundless Cold - Rosalind Kerven
Secrets - Anita Desai
A Necklace of Raindrops - Joan Aiken
Once There Were No Pandas - Margaret Greaves
The Gigantic Badness - Janet McNeill
