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- Hodder Children's Books
For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 9 years, Fiction, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage), Short stories (Children's / Teenage)
A collection of Oscar Wilde's stories for children with brand new illustrations by Sam Usher.
Sir Simon de Canterville has been haunting the residents of Canterville Chase for 300 years - and then the Otis family moves in. No matter how hard he tries, they won't be spooked, and soon the Otis family turns their attention to getting rid of him...
This collection contains the original text of all of Oscar Wilde's stories for children:
The Canterville Ghost
The Selfish Giant
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Devoted Friend
The Happy Prince
The Remarkable Rocket
The Young King
Praise for The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
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(On The Canterville Ghost) "Wickedly comic and brilliantly observed." - Guardian
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde (Author)
Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854 and is known for his poetry, plays and the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He died in Paris in 1900.
P.J. Lynch (Illustrator)
P.J. Lynch was born in Belfast in 1962, the youngest of five children. He studied art at Brighton Art College (where one of the tutor's was Raymond Biggs) and is now a well-established and critically acclaimed artist. He has won the Irish Bisto Award, the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice) and the Mother Goose Award.
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