The Kingfisher Book of Great Boy Stories: A Treasury of Classics from Children's Literature - Hardcover

Morpurgo, Michael

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9780753453209: The Kingfisher Book of Great Boy Stories: A Treasury of Classics from Children's Literature

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ISBN 10: 0753453207 ISBN 13: 9780753453209

Publisher: Kingfisher, 2000

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This handsome collection of carefully chosen and beautifully illustrated extracts celebrates favorite boy characters from children's literature. A new generation of readers will be delighted and inspired by the antics and adventures of timeless heroes such as Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, Peter Pan, and Winnie-the-Pooh.

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About the Author:

Michael Morpurgo is the author of more than fifty books for children and has had several of his novels adapted for film and television.

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Gr 4-8-In his introduction, Morpurgo promises a "taste" of classic stories, and he has included familiar ones, such as selections from Winnie-the-Pooh and Tom Sawyer as well as titles such as Flat Stanley, with the original illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. It may be a bit presumptuous to have added his own The Butterfly Lion, but the action related in that selection is more likely to entice readers to seek out the rest of the book than the quiet description from Tom's Midnight Garden. Morpurgo begins each selection with brief remarks to place it within the longer narrative. The stories will appeal to a broad age range but the dynamic illustrations by many different artists in as many different mediums will draw primarily younger readers.-Edith Ching, St. Albans School, Mt. St. Alban, Washington, DC

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