The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-Year-Olds

This work contains a collection of stories aimed at eight-year-olds as a young Puffin read-aloud book. Contents: A Picnic With the Aunts - Ursula Moray Williams The Story of the Small Boy and the Barley-Sugar - Max Beerbohm The Girl Who Stayed for Half a Week - Gene Kemp King Midas - Geraldine McCaughrean A Fish of the World - Terry Jones Dog, Cat and Monkey - Michael Rosen Mighty Mountain and the Three Strong Women - Irene Hedlund and Judith Elkin Tsipporah - Adèle Geras The Palace of Boundless Cold - Rosalind Kerven Secrets - Anita Desai A Necklace of Raindrops - Joan Aiken Once There Were No Pandas - Margaret Greaves The Gigantic Badness - Janet McNeill