The Kingfisher treasury of five-minute stories / 
 Five-minute stories 
chosen by Fiona Waters ; illustrated by John Lawrence. 
 - London :  Kingfisher,  [2005], c2000. 
 - 150 p. :  ill ;  20 cm. 
 - Kingfisher treasury series ;  22 .
 - Kingfisher treasury series ;  22 .
<br/><br/>Hetty / Anne Fine -- The strange eggs / Margaret Mahy -- The town mouse and the country mouse / Aesop, retold by Fiona Waters -- The glass cupboard / Terry Jones -- A blind man catches a bird / Alexander McCall Smith -- The bear who liked hugging people / Ruth Ainsworth -- Zap! / Dick King-Smith -- The man who didn't wash his dishes / Phyllis Krasilovsky -- The woman who grew butterflies / Wendy Eyton -- The soup stone / Leila Berg -- The thirteen cats / Daphne Lister -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving, retold by Fiona Waters -- Happy birthday, Nana Barbara! / Pippa Goodhart -- Keeping warmth in a bag, a Native American tale / retold by Fiona Waters -- Eggs / Joan Aiken -- Brer Rabbit to the rescue / Julius Lester -- Milly-Molly-Mandy goes blackberrying / Joyce Lankester Brisley -- Ally Bally and the magic bag / Tony Mitton -- There's no such thing as a fairy... / Simon Puttock -- The hunted hare, and English folktale / retold by Ethel Johnston Phelps -- What's the time, Rory Wolf? / Gillian mcClure -- How the camel got his hump / Rudyard Kipling. 
<br/><br/> A collection of traditional and original stories that can be read aloud in five minutes, including tales from Alaska, Japan, and Africa and works by Dick King-Smith and Margaret Mahy. 
<br/><br/> 3.9  Follett Library Resources.  K-3  Follett Library Resources. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780753411568 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children's literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ5  / .T7515 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.8/99282