Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 5-8) Bargain Book Box SP4162

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 5-8) Bargain Book Box SP4162

Fifteen Usborne First Reading and Young Reading books: the Gingerbread Man, the Three Little Pigs, Chicken Licken, the Enormous Turnip, the Musicians of Bremen and the Little Red Hen, plus an Anansi tale and a dinosaur who’s lost his roar. The stories every early reader is supposed to know, in one go.

1. The Mouse’s Wedding — Mairi Mackinnon — Mouse parents want the strongest husband for their daughter and ask the sun, the cloud, the wind and the wall.
2. The Dinosaur Who Lost His Roar — Russell Punter — Sid has roared himself hoarse and the volcano is about to blow.
3. The Emperor’s New Clothes — Andersen — The swindlers, the invisible suit, the child in the crowd. Young Reading.
4. The Princess and the Pea — Andersen — Twenty mattresses and a bruise. Young Reading.
5. The King’s Pudding — Mairi Mackinnon — A tiger steals the pudding and a mouse-deer gets it back. Malaysian folk tale.
6. The Musicians of Bremen — Susanna Davidson — A donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster scare the robbers out of their house.
7. The Little Red Hen — Susanna Davidson — “Not I,” said the cat, the dog and the rat, until the bread was baked.
8. The Gingerbread Man — Mairi Mackinnon — Run, run, as fast as you can, and the fox.
9. The Boy Who Cried Wolf — Mairi Mackinnon — Aesop’s warning about lying, with the sheep paying the bill.
10. The Leopard and the Sky God — Mairi Mackinnon — How the leopard got his drum and the tortoise got the credit. West African tale.
11. Chicken Licken — Russell Punter — The sky is falling, and Foxy Loxy is listening.
12. The Magic Pear Tree — Rosie Dickins — A beggar plants a pear stone and grows a tree in a minute. Chinese tale.
13. The Magic Porridge Pot — Grimm — Say “stop, little pot” or the village drowns in porridge.
14. The Three Little Pigs — Susanna Davidson — Straw, sticks, bricks.
15. The Enormous Turnip — Katie Daynes — The whole family and the mouse pull it out.