Stories for Five-Year-Olds

Acknowledgements A Word to the Story-teller Lion at School - Philippa Pearce One Little Pig and Ten Wolves - A Hungarian Tale retold by Kathleen Arnott Tim Rabbit's Magic Cloak - Alison Uttley The Little Boy and his House - Stephen Bone The Ossopit Tree - Stephen Corrin Johnny Appleseed - A Traditional American Tale retold by Stephen Corrin The Acorn Man - Ruth Ainsworth Pierre - Maurice Sendak The House in the Forest - Grimm adapted by Stephen Corrin Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot - Alf Proysen A Drink of Water - John Yeoman Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf - Catherine Storr Jacoble Tells the Truth - Lisl Weil The Two Giants - Michael Foreman The Birds' Concert - H. E. Todd Little Lisa - A Norse Fairy Tale retold by Einar Nerman How the Engine Learned the Knowing Song - Lucy Sprague Mitchell The Little Rooster and the Diamond Button - Kate Seredy Little Laura and the Lonely Ostrich - V. H. Drummond The Sun and the Wind - Aesop Tom Thumb - An English Folk Tale retold by Stephen Corrin The Lory who Longed for Honey - Leila Berg The Stamping Elephant - Anita Hewett All Change! - Ursula Hourihane The Five Little Foxes and the Tiger - A Folk Tale from East Pakistan retold by Kathleen Arnott Teddy Robinson's Night Out - Joan Robinson Peter and the Rabbits - Arhur Kubler