Storytime

Storytime - Another great book that is part of our Winter Sale. This anthology by Stella Blackstone features many of my childhood favorites, but with stunning new illustrations by Anne Wilson who also illustrated another favorite of ours, The Great Race.


You'll find well-known stories like The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man and The Ugly Duckling along with a few lesser-know stories (at least to us!) like Stone Soup and The Timid Hare.

We really like Stone Soup where an old wolf shows up at the door of a hen's house on a cold night and asks to be let in. He places the stone he carries in a sack on his back into a large cooking pot so he can make soup. As all the other animals come to check on the hen, each one adds its own special ingredient and they all share an evening of dinner and stories until the wolf has to leave.

This book is available in hardcover or paperback, and you can get the paperback with or without a CD of the stories being read by Jim Broadbent. We have the hardcover, which I like because we read it a lot. I also have a copy of the paperback with CD and it is very nice as well. All of our paperbacks are very durable with bound spines (like our hardcovers; not stapled) and many of them have French folds for added durability.