Fantasy Stories (Kingfisher Story Library)
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Product Description
Here are 18 imaginative stories from such accomplished writers as C.S. Lewis, Joan Aiken, L. Frank Baum, Isaac Asimov, and Rudyard Kipling. Splendid line drawings add to the otherworldly atmosphere.
About the Author
Diana Wynne Jones is a distinguished writer of fantasy for both adults and children. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1978 for Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? Her astonishingly inventive novels - including Fire and Hemlock and The Merlin Conspiracy - are warmly received by critics and fantasy fans alike. She lives in Bristol. Robin Lawrie has illustrated books and magazines for over 25 years. He has illustrated, among others, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Secret Garden and The Wind in the Willows. He lives in Shropshire.
From School Library Journal
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.
From Booklist
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
Here are 18 imaginative stories from such accomplished writers as C.S. Lewis, Joan Aiken, L. Frank Baum, Isaac Asimov, and Rudyard Kipling. Splendid line drawings add to the otherworldly atmosphere.
About the Author
Diana Wynne Jones is a distinguished writer of fantasy for both adults and children. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1978 for Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? Her astonishingly inventive novels - including Fire and Hemlock and The Merlin Conspiracy - are warmly received by critics and fantasy fans alike. She lives in Bristol. Robin Lawrie has illustrated books and magazines for over 25 years. He has illustrated, among others, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Secret Garden and The Wind in the Willows. He lives in Shropshire.
From School Library Journal
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.
From Booklist
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
Book Information
Main Genre
N/A
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
256
Price
20.95 €
Description
Product Description
Here are 18 imaginative stories from such accomplished writers as C.S. Lewis, Joan Aiken, L. Frank Baum, Isaac Asimov, and Rudyard Kipling. Splendid line drawings add to the otherworldly atmosphere.
About the Author
Diana Wynne Jones is a distinguished writer of fantasy for both adults and children. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1978 for Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? Her astonishingly inventive novels - including Fire and Hemlock and The Merlin Conspiracy - are warmly received by critics and fantasy fans alike. She lives in Bristol. Robin Lawrie has illustrated books and magazines for over 25 years. He has illustrated, among others, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Secret Garden and The Wind in the Willows. He lives in Shropshire.
From School Library Journal
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.
From Booklist
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
Here are 18 imaginative stories from such accomplished writers as C.S. Lewis, Joan Aiken, L. Frank Baum, Isaac Asimov, and Rudyard Kipling. Splendid line drawings add to the otherworldly atmosphere.
About the Author
Diana Wynne Jones is a distinguished writer of fantasy for both adults and children. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1978 for Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? Her astonishingly inventive novels - including Fire and Hemlock and The Merlin Conspiracy - are warmly received by critics and fantasy fans alike. She lives in Bristol. Robin Lawrie has illustrated books and magazines for over 25 years. He has illustrated, among others, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Secret Garden and The Wind in the Willows. He lives in Shropshire.
From School Library Journal
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.
From Booklist
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
Book Information
Main Genre
N/A
Sub Genre
N/A
Format
Softcover
Pages
256
Price
20.95 €