The Oxford Book of Children's Stories

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Youth level.
Story of Celia and Chloe / Sarah Fielding -- Ill-natured boy / Thomas Day -- Difference and agreement / John Aikin / Anna Laetitia Barbauld -- Elinor Forester / Mary Lamb -- Little blue bag / Alicia Catherine Mant -- Soffrona and her cat muff / Mary Martha Sherwood -- Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and faeries (1893) / Catherine Sinclair -- Limpy lumpy / Anon -- First theft / Anon -- Mother and boy / Anon -- Story of merrymind / Frances Browne -- Green velvet dress / Charlotte Maria Tucker -- Little daylight / George Macdonald -- Lady who put salt in her coffee / Lucretia P. Hale -- Children's joke Louisa May Alcott -- Nineteen hundred and seventy-two / Jean Ingelow -- Party in the land of nowhere / Christina Rossetti -- Two wishes / Susan Coolidge -- Chicken Lizzie / L. Duykwood -- Alf Brownson's Shilling / Anon -- New mother / Lucy Lane Clifford -- Griffin and the minor canon / Frank R. Stockton -- Quiquern / Rudyard Kipling -- Schoolboy's Apprentice / E.V. Lucas -- Story of the small boy and the barley-sugar / Max Beerbohm -- Island of the nine whirlpools / E. Nesbit -- Nanina's sheep / Mary De Morgan -- How a skyscraper and a railroad train got picked up and carried away from pig's eye valley far in the Pickax Mountains / Carl Sandburg -- Riddle / Walter De La Mare -- Caravan Siege / Alice Massie -- Wailing Well / M.R. James -- Aunt Arabelle in charge / Richmal Crompton -- Great bronze tulip / H. De Vere Stacpoole -- Lost Garda / Patricia Lynch -- Lobster's birthday / Joan Aiken -- Spit Nolan / Bill Naughton -- Great blackberry-pick / Philippa Pearce -- Feeding the cats / Ann Thwaite -- Oliver Hyde's Dishcloth Concert / Richard Kennedy -- She / Rosa Guy -- Banana tree / James Berry -- Dan, Dan, the scenery man / Jan Mark -- Fabric Crafts / Anne Fine -- Convict box / Nadia Wheatley.
A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.

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