Hey! listen to this
Subtitle: stories to read aloud
By: edited by Jim Trelease.
Contributors: Trelease, Jim.
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780670836918
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Children's literature; Literature -- Collections
Description: Fairy tales, folklore, and famous stories from around the world are here presented in read-aloud language, with an introduction to each, further reading suggestions, and information about the authors.
Table of contents: title: Tell me a story!: The Gunniwolf, retold by Wilhelmina Harper --; title: Little Green Riding Hood, by Gianni Rodari --; title: Wolf Story, by William McCleery --; title: Tales from long ago: Noah's Friends, by Marc Gellman --; title: The Tortoise and the Hare, retold from Aesop --; title: School days: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, by Louis Sachar --; title: Ramona the Pest, by Beverly Cleary --; title: Child of the Silent Night, by Edith Fisher Hunter --; title: Family Secrets, by Susan Shreve --; title: Food for thought: Bavsi's Feast, by Adèle Geras --; title: Chocolate Fever, by Robert Kimmel Smith --; title: Homer Price, by Robert McCloskey --; title: Families: Alexander, by June Epstein --; title: Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater --; title: The Stories Julian Tells, by Ann Cameron --; title: The Fish Angel, by Myron Levoy --; title: Nadia the Willful, by Sue Alexander --; title: Greyling, by 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, by Genevieve Barlow --; title: The Magic Thread --; title: Animal tales: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter --; title: Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White --; title: Bambi, by Felix Salten --; title: Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell --; title: Lassie Come-Home, by Eric Knight --; title: Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls --; title: Gentle Ben, by Walt Morey --; title: Gigantic creatures: The Story of Giant Kippernose, by John Cunliffe --; title: The Reluctant Dragon, by Kenneth Grahame --; title: The Moon's Revenge, by Joan Aiken --; title: Fantasy lands: Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum --; title: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis --; title: James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl --; title: Children of courage: The Boy Who Stopped the Sea, retold by Louis Untermeyer --; title: The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Dalgliesh --; title: The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare --; title: I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Margaret Davidson --; title: Orphans of the storm: Sara Crewe, by Frances Hodgson Burnett --; title: The Story of Holly and Ivy, by Rumer Godden --; title: Understood Betsy, by 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.