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Short Too!. Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Description for Short Too!. Kevin Crossley-Holland
Paperback. The longest story in this collection is very short and the shortest just three words long. Award-winning author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, follows the success of Short, with Short Too!, another collection of short stories to entertain, make you think, laugh, and think again. Series: Short!. Num Pages: 96 pages, B&W. BIC Classification: 4KHJ; YFB; YFJ; YFU. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 86.
Award-winning author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, follows the success of Short, with Short Too!, an inspirational collection for short story writers where even the longest story is very short. A wonderful mix of the best short stories. Some are old, some are new, some are scary, some are funny, but all the stories in this book will make you think. There's Tarvaa and the terrible plague, a bagful of butterflies, ghostly tales from the beyond the grave, and the short life of Barbara the Lamb Who Froze to Death. Baa! Brr! Ahh!
Award-winning author, Kevin Crossley-Holland, follows the success of Short, with Short Too!, an inspirational collection for short story writers where even the longest story is very short. A wonderful mix of the best short stories. Some are old, some are new, some are scary, some are funny, but all the stories in this book will make you think. There's Tarvaa and the terrible plague, a bagful of butterflies, ghostly tales from the beyond the grave, and the short life of Barbara the Lamb Who Froze to Death. Baa! Brr! Ahh!
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Short!
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192780133
SKU
V9780192780133
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a distinguished teller of tales. He is also a poet, translator, broadcaster, and writer for children, and is winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He specializes in myth, legend, and folk-tales, especially from the Anglo-Saxon period and from East Anglia. He has four children, and lives in Norfolk.
Reviews for Short Too!. Kevin Crossley-Holland
Praise for Short! 'Each [story is] a masterpiece of brevity and narrative skill'
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. . . this is a brilliant book . . .
TES
. . . an espresso-cup collection which condenses the author's distinguished career as a reteller of folk-tales into bite-sized fables with a strong after-taste effect.
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Carousel
. . . this is a brilliant book . . .
TES
. . . an espresso-cup collection which condenses the author's distinguished career as a reteller of folk-tales into bite-sized fables with a strong after-taste effect.
Literary Review
... Read more