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  2. The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Wikipedia

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    The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and " The Remarkable Rocket ." In 2003, the second through fourth stories were adapted by Lupus ...

  3. Category:Children's short stories - Wikipedia

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    Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

  4. Rip Van Winkle - Wikipedia

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    1819. " Rip Van Winkle " ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑɱ ˈʋɪŋkəl]) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains.

  5. The Famous Five - Wikipedia

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    The Famous Five is a series of children's adventure novels and short stories written by English author Enid Blyton. The first book, Five on a Treasure Island, was published in 1942. The novels feature the adventures of a group of young children – Julian, Dick, Anne, George and their dog Timmy. The vast majority of the stories take place in ...

  6. Just So Stories - Wikipedia

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    Just So Stories. Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine.

  7. All Summer in a Day - Wikipedia

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    The story is about a class of students on Venus, which, in this story, is a world of constant rainstorms, where the sun is only visible for two hours every seven years. One of the children, Margot, moved to Venus from Earth five years earlier and is the only one who remembers the sun, since it shines regularly on Earth. She describes the sun to ...

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