Hey! listen to this
Subtitle: stories to read aloud
By: edited by Jim Trelease.
Contributors: Trelease, Jim.
Edition: printing (9)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780140146530
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Children's literature.; Literature -- Collections.
Description: A collection of fairy tales, folklore, and famous stories from around the world arranged for reading aloud.
Notes: "A Penguin original"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Tell me a story!. The Gunniwolf / retold by Wilhelmina Harper --; title: Little Green Riding Hood / Gianni Rodari --; title: Wolf story / William McCleery --; title: Tales from long ago. Noah's friends / Marc Gellman --; title: The tortoise and the hare / retold from Aesop --; title: School days. Sideways stories from Wayside School / Louis Sachar --; title: Ramona the pest / Beverly Cleary --; title: Child of the silent night / Edith Fisher Hunter --; title: Family secrets / Susan Shreve --; title: Food for thought. Bavsi's feast / Adèle Geras --; title: Chocolate fever / Robert Kimmel Smith --; title: Homer Price / Robert McCloskey --; title: Families. Alexander / June Epstein --; title: Mr. Popper's penguins / Richard and Florence Atwater --; title: The stories Julian tells / Ann Cameron --; title: The fish angel / Myron Levoy --; title: Nadia the willful / Sue Alexander --; title: Greyling / Jane Yolen --; title: Folk and fairy tales. Unanana and the elephant / retold by Kathleen Arnott --; title: The tales of Uncle Remus / retold by Julius Lester --; title: The Indian Cinderella / retold by Cyrus Macmillan --; title: Shen of the sea / retold by Arthur Bowie Chrisman --; title: The emperor's new clothes / retold from Hans Christian Andersen --; title: The search for the magic lake / Genevieve Barlow --; title: The magic thread --; title: Animal tales. The tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter --; title: Charlotte's web / E.B. White --; title: Bambi / Felix Salten --; title: Black Beauty / Anna Sewell --; title: Lassie come-home / Eric Knight --; title: Where the red fern grows / Wilson Rawls --; title: Gentle Ben / Walt Morey --; title: Gigantic creatures. The story of Giant Kippernose / John Cunliffe --; title: The reluctant dragon / Kenneth Grahame --; title: The moon's revenge / Joan Aiken --; title: Fantasy lands. Ozma of Oz / L. Frank Baum --; title: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe / C.S. Lewis --; title: James and the giant peach / Roald Dahl --; title: Children of courage. The boy who stopped the sea / retold by Louis Untermeyer --; title: The courage of Sarah Noble / Alice Dalgliesh --; title: The sign of the beaver / Elizabeth George Speare --; title: I have a dream: the story of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Margaret Davidson --; title: Orphans of the storm. Sara Crewe / Frances Hodgson Burnett --; title: The story of Holly and Ivy / Rumer Godden --; title: Understood Betsy / Dorothy Canfield Fisher --; title: Classic tales. The golden touch / retold from Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: The pied piper / retold from Joseph Jacobs and Andrew Lang, with poetry by Robert Browning --; title: Aladdin and the wonderful lamp / retold from Andrew Lang.