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  2. 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.

  3. Collected Stories for Children - Wikipedia

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    Collected Stories for Children is a collection of 17 fantasy stories or original fairy tales by Walter de la Mare, first published by Faber in 1947 with illustrations by Irene Hawkins. [1] [3] De la Mare won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. [4] It was the first collection to win the ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales - Wikipedia

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    PS3503.R167 A6 2003. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote an introduction to the collection where he speaks about some of the inspirations, influences and among other things, the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The collection repeats no stories from The Stories ...

  7. Every Living Thing (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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    Every Living Thing is a collection of twelve short stories for children by Cynthia Rylant, published by Bradbury Press in 1985 with decorations by S. D. Schindler. [1] The stories all feature redemptive relationships between humans and other animals, most often showing how a stray animal comes into the life of a person just when it is most needed.

  8. Short story - Wikipedia

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    Short stories date back to oral storytelling traditions which originally produced epics such as the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey. Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets. Such stylistic devices often acted ...

  9. Madeline in America and Other Holiday Tales - Wikipedia

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    0590039105. Madeline in America and Other Holiday Tales is an illustrated collection of short stories by Ludwig Bemelmans, with only one of the stories featuring his popular children's character Madeline. This collection was first published in 1999 by Arthur A. Levine Books, and features stories previously published in other publications, with ...

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