This amazing collection of eighteen stories introduces young readers to the best contemporary writers of fantasy. It also contains extracts from enduring classics such as C. S. Lewis's The Silver Chair, Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling and Five Children and It by E. Nesbit. Robin Lawrie's imaginative illustrations bring evil witches, a web-footed Marshwiggle and a very irritable dragon - among other bizarre characters - to life. Carefully selected by the renowned children's writer Diana Wynne Jones, this is an anthology to treasure.
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Grade 4-6-A compilation of fantasy and folktales, one of which is by Jones. Consisting primarily of excerpts from classics such as Tove Jansson's Finn Family Moomintroll (Transaction, 1989), Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth (Knopf, 1972), C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair (Macmillan, 1986), Edith Nesbit's Five Children and It (Puffin, 1985), L. Frank Baum's The Land of Oz (Ballantine, 1985), etc., the book also contains a story by the Brothers Grimm and one by Andrew Lang. Andre Norton, K.M. Briggs, Joan Aiken, and Jane Yolen are also among the 18 authors represented. This is a fine introduction to the genre; although the stories are long, they are well suited to reading aloud.
Anne Connor, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Anne Connor, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Gr. 4-8. Wynne Jones has collected her stories from time-tested authors such as Kipling and C. S. Lewis as well as from contemporary ones such as Yolen. Some, like Lewis' "The House of Harfang" and L. Frank Baum's "The Amazing Flight of the Gump," are extracted from longer works and suffer from being taken out of context, but the variety of the selections offers something to readers who like to be scared as well as those who prefer to be charmed. Sheilamae O'Hara
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Decent collection of stories and book excerpts,
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This review is from: Fantasy Stories (Story Library) (Paperback)
This is a pretty good collection of stories. More than half the "stories" are actually book excerpts, which I personally find annoying (though others might disagree), but you can tell the editor has great taste by the books she chose: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Silver Chair, and Five Children and It, among others. Isaac Asimov has a great story in here, though it's a bit off-color for such a young readership, and the last story, "What The Cat Told Me," is vintage Jones and very good.
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THERE WAS ONCE upon a time a peasant who had been working in his field, and as twilight had set in, he was making ready for the journey home, when he saw a heap of burning coals in the middle of his field, and when, full of astonishment, he went up to it, a little black devil was sitting on the live coals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Hugh Anthony, Abu Ali, Green Dragon, Abu All, Silver Bud, Red Cross Knight, Boomalakka Wee, Tin Woodman, George Batchford, Snork Maiden, Miss Wrack, Sulkpot Ben Nagnag, Baba Yaga, Rubdub Ben Thud, Tintac Ping Foo, Black Beauty, Hobberdy Dick, Mabel Wrack, Jack Pumpkinhead, Nick Chopper, Shipton Barrow, Winged Hats, Arriman the Awful, Foxglove Combe, Mother Darke New!
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THERE WAS ONCE upon a time a peasant who had been working in his field, and as twilight had set in, he was making ready for the journey home, when he saw a heap of burning coals in the middle of his field, and when, full of astonishment, he went up to it, a little black devil was sitting on the live coals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Hugh Anthony, Abu Ali, Green Dragon, Abu All, Silver Bud, Red Cross Knight, Boomalakka Wee, Tin Woodman, George Batchford, Snork Maiden, Miss Wrack, Sulkpot Ben Nagnag, Baba Yaga, Rubdub Ben Thud, Tintac Ping Foo, Black Beauty, Hobberdy Dick, Mabel Wrack, Jack Pumpkinhead, Nick Chopper, Shipton Barrow, Winged Hats, Arriman the Awful, Foxglove Combe, Mother Darke New!
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- Horror: The 100 Best Books by Stephen Jones in Back Matter
- Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories by Diana Wynne Jones on page 498
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