A wonderful collection of ten folktales specially chosen from around the globe. Stories are The Baobab Tree, Baba Yaga the Flying Witch, The Stonecutter, Dick Whittington, The Three Wishes, The Fish that Talked, King Midas and the Golden Touch, Brer Rabbit Down the Well, The Magic Pear Tree and Genie in the Bottle. Each story is brilliantly illustrated by artists from the Usborne Young Reading Programme.
Chapters in this book include:
- The Baobab Tree (a story from Africa)
- Baba Yaga the Flying Witch (a story from Russia)
- The Stonecutter (a story from Japan)
- Dick Whittington (a story from England)
- The Three Wishes (a story from Scandinavia)
- The Fish that Talked (a story from India)
- King Midas and the Golden Touch (a story from Ancient Greece)
- Brer Rabbit Down the Well (a story from America)
- The Magic Pear Tree (a story from China)
- The Genie in the Bottle (a story from the Middle East)
This is Book 4 in the Illustrated Story Collections Series. See all Illustrated Story Collections books here.
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Lee is an illustrator working in children's fiction and educational publishing. He also designs greetings cards, apps, novelty toys and bus stops. Lee lives with his wife, children and their rabbit in North West England.
More about Lee CosgroveAnne Adeney is well known for her educational wooden toys and more recently for her children`s writing. In 1997 she was short-listed for the Fidler Award, for the best new children`s novelist. Anne lives in Plymouth with her husband, four children and loopy dog!
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