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Children's classics to read aloud / selected by Edward Blishen.

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New York : Kingfisher Books, 1995, c1991.

Children's literature.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm021/92053097.html

0753456869 (pbk.)

255 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

Under the hill (from Hobbit) / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Transformation scene (from Vice versa) / F. Anstey -- Through the door (from Tom's midnight garden) / Philippa Pearce -- Emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen; retold by Edward Blishen -- Who'll teach Smith to read? (from Smith) / Leon Garfield -- Mr. Toad on the run (from Wind in the willows) / Kenneth Grahame -- Invisible child (from Tales from the Moomin Valley) / Tove Jansson -- Tom's Monday morning (from Adventures of Tom Sawyer) / Mark Twain -- Horror in the pit (from Pit and the pendulum) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Alice meets the duchess (from Alice in Wonderland) Lewis Carroll.

Jim fights Israel Hands (from Treasure Island) / R.L. Stevenson -- Wilbur's escape (from Charlotte's web) / E.B. White -- Wager (from Call of the wild) / Jack London -- Up the zigzag (from Moonfleet) / J. Meade Falkner - Arietty is seen (from Borrowers) / Mary Norton -- Along the yellow brick road (from Wizard of Oz) / L. Frank Baum -- Elephant's child (from Just so stories / Rudyard Kipling -- Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- A new home (from Black Beauty) / Anna Sewell -- Garden discovered (from Secret garden) / Frances H. Burnett.

A collection of excerpts from classics in children's literature, including "Tom Sawyer," "The Secret Garden," and "Charlotte's Web."

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