Two stories full of love, devotion and sacrifice. A mournful statue is helped by a swallow to carry out acts of charity around the city. A nightingale longs to find a red rose for her friend, but the rose bush asks a high price. Both these feathered creatures pay the ultimate price to help others, showing that true love is selfless. These retellings of Oscar Wilde's tragic short stories will reduce you to tears with their beauty and magic.
TreeTops Greatest Stories offers children some of the worlds best loved tales in a collection of timeless classics. Top children's authors and talented illustrators work together to bring to life our literary heritage for a new generation, engaging and delighting children.
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Jonny Zucker always wanted to be an author and he wrote loads of stories while at school. However, he was always being told off for: a) writing stories when he should be listening, and b) plotting the downfall of the teachers. He has composed songs for a children's theatre company, done stand up and comedy and even been a teacher, although he spent most of h
More about Jonny ZuckerFamed for his brilliant wit, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a prolific writer and one of the most successful playwrights of Victorian Britain, as well as a champion for the values of Aestheticism.
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Buglife is the Invertebrate Conservation Trust, a charity dedicated to conservation, education and policy change to protect insects, bugs and invertebrates. Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates, actively working everything from bees to beetles, worms to woodlice and j
