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This glorious collection includes all your favourite traditional stories, such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumplestiltskin, along with some less well-known stories to discover. The book is sumptuously illustrated and decorated with illustrations on every page, generous page layout, and beautiful traditional calligraphy. The story telling is outstanding. We believe this is an important book for Oxford University Press, which will become a classic to keep forever. Geraldine McCaughrean has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book (twice), the Guardian Children's Book Award, and the Blue Peter Best Book Award. Her retellings of traditional stories and Ancient Myths are acclaimed throughout the world. Sophy Williams studied illustration in London. She was highly commended twice for the "Reader's Digest" Young Illustrator's Award and was shortlisted for the Mother Goose Prize. She has worked with writer's such as Robert Westall, Michael Rosen and Jill Paton Walsh.

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Retold by renowned children's writer, Geraldine McCaughrean, here are all the best-loved fairy tales and more.

Retold by renowned children's writer, Geraldine McCaughrean, here are all the best-loved fairy tales and more. Favourites such as Sleeping Beauty. Geraldine McCaughrean has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award (three times), the Smarties Prize Bronze Award (three times), the Blue Peter 'Best Book to Keep Forever' Award, and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award Books from OUP: Not the End of the World, Smile!, Stop the Train, The Kite Rider, A Little Lower than the Angels, Forever X, Gold.

Geraldine McCaughrean, Sophy Williams (Illustrator). This collection of fairy tales includes all your favourite traditional tales, such as 'Rapunzel', 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'Rumpelstiltskin', along with some less well known stories to discover. The book is illustrated on every page and written in calligraphy style.

About Geraldine McCaughrean & Sophy Williams. Geraldine McCaughrean (born 1951) trained as a teacher but learned only that she was useless at teaching. So she worked instead as a sub at a partwork magazine company, perfect training in cutting to length, abandoning pretentions and writing blurbs. A Carnegie Medallist, three-time winner of the Whitbread and the very first recipient of the Blue Peter Book Award, she has written almost 150 books and plays.

Retold by renowned children's writer Geraldine McCaughrean here are all the best-loved fairy tales and more. Booktrust 'A sumptuous collection of fairy stories retold by Geraldine McCaughrean who has an exceptional ability to spin out the magic of any story. Favourites such as Sleeping Beauty Rumpelstiltskin Snow White Cinderella Rapunzel Hansel and Gretel the Little Mermaid and the Princess and the Pea are accompanied by other treasures such as the Three Gifts of the North Wind Cap-of-Rushes and the Tinderbox. As ever Geraldine's writing style is original and dramatic and she weaves magic into her world of knights witches frogs and princesses.

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to less familiar tales like "The Three Oranges". This is a handsomely produced book with richly- toned illustrations by Sophie Williams.

This is a collection of twenty of the best loved fairy tales, some of them traditional, and some retellings from Andersen. Multi award-winning storyteller, Geraldine McCaughrean, spins the tales with all the skill of her craft, taking the reader directly into the human experience underlying them. Times were hard, harder than the dried bread on Jack's table," brings the. setting vividly before a young reader. Her dramatic retellings make the most of familiar stories and introduce children to less familiar tales like "The Three Oranges"

Geraldine Mccaughrean, Sophy Williams. Retold by renowned children's writer, Geraldine McCaughrean, here are all the best-loved fairy tales and more.

Geraldine Mccaughrean, Sophy Williams. Favourites such as Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, the Little Mermaid, and the Princess and the Pea are accompanied by other treasures such as the Three Gifts of the North Wind, Cap-of-Rushes, and the Tinderbox. As ever, Geraldine's writing style is original and dramatic, and she weaves magic into her world of knights, witches, frogs, and princesses.

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Retold by renowned children& writer, Geraldine McCaughrean, here are all the best-loved fairy tales and more. Sophy Williams& and atmospheric colour illustrations throughout the collection complement the text beautifully to make this a perfect gift. This beautifully designed book will stand the test of time and give pleasure for many, many years. Sophy Williams' delicate and atmospheric colour illustrations throughout the collection complement the text beautifully to make this the ideal present.