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Read-Aloud Book

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Cover of The Kingfisher Treasury of Giant and Monster Stories
Twenty-four top tales! A brilliant collection, specially selected to appeal to four year olds. The collection features a host of famous and best-loved children's writers including Dick King-Smith, Italo Calvino, Alison Lurie, Leila Berg, Joan Aiken, Margaret Mahy and Russell Hoban. Each story is wittily illustrated with lively half-tone artwork by Caroline Dinan. From the everyday to the amazing, her are stories about a paper palace, a thin king, a toy donkey, a very fierce bear and a flying apple pie. This wideranging anthology of funny and exciting stories is sure to enthrall and entertain all young readers.

Cover of The Kingfisher Treasury of Spooky Stories
Ghostly goings-on and mysterious magic! Children love scary stories and there are chills aplenty in this thrilling collection. Featuring stories by such wellknown authors as Jan Mark, Virginia Hamilton, Susan Price and Ruskin Bond, this anthology is packed with blood-curdling tension and hilarious horror. Clanking skeletons, moonlit churchyards, strange shadows, ghostly trains and mysterious phantoms appear in these stories, ably illustrated with atmospheric black-and-white drawings. This is the perfect book to read at bedtime on dark, dark nights in dark, dark house...