The Kingfisher Treasury of Classic Stories

Rosemary Sandberg and Michael Morpugo excerpt 30 time-tested tales in The Kingfisher Treasury of Classic Stories. Here, old favorites such as ""In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place"" from A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, with Ernest H. Shepard's original illustrations; and ""The Open Road"" from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illus. by Chris Fisher, appear alongside episodes from contemporary classics such as Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary; My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, illus. by Felicity Gill; and Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins. A brief introduction precedes each offering; short biographies of the authors round out the volume.