An Oxford anthology of 26 previously published children's stories (mostly British authors, but a couple of American stories are included), freshly illustrated in colour. The stories include A Lion in the Meadow - Margret Mahy; Maggy Scraggle Loves the Beautiful Ice-Cream Man - Jill MacDonald; Pete and the Ladybird - Leila Berg; A List - Arnold Lobel; The Fish Cart - Ruth Manning-Sanders; The Thrush Girl - Godfried Bomans; The Giant Who Threw Tantrums - David Harrison; The Knee-High Man - Julius Lester; My Naughty Little Sister Makes a Bottle-Tree - Dorothy Edwards; The Laughing Dragon - Richard Wilson; Bro Tiger Goes Dead - James Berry; The Wonderful Tar Baby - George Browne; Simple Peter's Mirror - Terry Jones; The Tinderbox - Hans Christian Andersen, trans Erik Haugaard; The Dauntless Girl - Kevin Crossley-Holland; The Riddlemaster - Catherine Storr; Think of a Word - Joan Aiken; Mrs Cockle's Cat - Philippa Pearce; McBroom and the Big Wind - Geraldine McCaughrean; The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde; How the Rhinoceros got his Skin - Rudyard Kipling; How the Polar Bear Became - Ted Hughes; The Shrinking of Treehorn - Florence Parry Heide; William's Version - Jan Mark; Paul's Tale - Mary Norton. Illustrated by Anthony Lewis, Toni Goffe, Claudio Muñoz, Emma Chichester, Elke Counsel, Jean Claverie and Susan Field (cover).