Edited by Pam Horn

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On Sale: Sep 11, 2012
Page Count: 280 pages
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN-13: 9781579129200

READ-ALOUD CLASSICS collects twenty-four ten-minute selections from beloved children’s classics from around the world, like classic fairy or folk tales, The Wizard of Oz, Tales of the Arabian Nights, and superior animal stories that are perfect for reading aloud together. With beautiful full-color illustrations for every tale, READ-ALOUD CLASSICS recounts more than twenty well-known tales condensed for reading in only ten minutes. Whether your story-lover wants to meet Black Beauty, or Peter Pan, the Tin Man or an original fairy-tale princess, each beloved tale entertains, teaches a gentle life lesson, and creates curiosity in the future reader. Only ten minutes can make reading a bonding experience for you both. Look for Read-Aloud Poems and Read-Aloud African-American Stories too.

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Read-Aloud

Horn pulls from a diverse array of sources that include fairy tales and classics like Kipling's Just So Stories, Barrie's Peter Pan, and L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time in this anthology of 24 tales, part of the Read-Aloud series. Each abbreviated selection is placed within the context of the original work from which it is taken (an introductory paragraph concisely describes Alice's unusual day, followed by Chapter Seven of Alice in Wonderland, in which she joins the Mad Tea-Party). Reproductions of original illustrations (Tenniel's for Alice, Williams's for Charlotte's Web) are included for several of the excerpts. The brief fragments provide a general impression of and introduction to these favorite works, and may spur families to seek out the full tales to read. Simultaneously available: Read-Aloud African American Stories. All ages.

$14.95

$17.95 CAD