Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 5-8) Bargain Book Box SP4165

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 5-8) Bargain Book Box SP4165

Fifteen Usborne First Reading retellings of the big fairy tales: Andersen’s Tin Soldier, Ugly Duckling and Emperor’s Nightingale, Grimm’s Red Riding Hood, Aesop, Baba Yaga, Dick Whittington and Kenneth Grahame’s Reluctant Dragon. Clean matching set.

1. The Tin Soldier — Russell Punter — One leg, a paper boat down the gutter, a fish, and a fire. Andersen’s saddest tale, handled gently.
2. The Runaway Pancake — Mairi Mackinnon — Rolls out the door, past everyone, straight to the pig.
3. Dick Whittington — Russell Punter — A poor boy, a cat, and a city where the streets turn out not to be paved with gold until they are.
4. Princess Polly and the Pony — Susanna Davidson — Polly wants to ride; the king says princesses don’t.
5. The Inch Prince — Russell Punter — A thumb-sized boy rows a soup bowl to the city and fights a demon with a needle. Japanese tale.
6. Little Red Riding Hood — Grimm — The wolf in the bed. Mike Gordon’s illustrations.
7. The Emperor and the Nightingale — Andersen — A real bird, a jewelled clockwork one, and which of them sings when the emperor is dying.
8. The Reluctant Dragon — Kenneth Grahame — The dragon writes poetry and won’t fight; Saint George agrees to fake it.
9. Goldilocks and the Three Bears — Susanna Davidson — Porridge, chairs, beds, bears.
10. The Owl and the Pussycat — Edward Lear — The pea-green boat, the runcible spoon, the Bong-tree. Victoria Ball’s pictures.
11. Androcles and the Lion — Russell Punter — A slave pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and the lion remembers him in the arena.
12. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse — Susanna Davidson — Fine food and a cat, or crumbs and peace.
13. Baba Yaga the Flying Witch — Susanna Davidson — The witch in the hut on chicken legs, and the girl who escapes with a comb and a towel.
14. The Hare and the Tortoise — Mairi Mackinnon — Slow and steady.
15. The Ugly Duckling — Andersen — The one that always lands.