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'Super-fun stories specially chosen for 8-year-olds!
'A mysterious water horse, dogs with big plans, a fortune-telling dragon, poetry and elephants, a mouse rescuer extraordinaire, sheep on the football field, a bull ant emergency, a royal wedding for Nanny Piggins, a cross-country catastrophe and a soup-eating hero . . . You'll find all these in Stories for 8-Year-Olds. And you'll find some of your favourite Australian authors, too.
'After you've read one, you'll want to read them all! ' (Publication summary)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Milsons Point,
North Sydney - Lane Cove area,
Sydney Northern Suburbs,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Random House
, 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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UFD,
single work
children's fiction
children's
'A boy reports seeing a flying dog, but his family does not believe him. He is bet a thousand dollars if he can prove he saw one, or three years of washing if he can't.'
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_(short_story_collection))
- Gruesome Grandads and Nasty Nans, single work children's fiction (p. 17-33)
- A Giant Called Norman Mary, single work children's fiction (p. 33-50)
- The Magic Carpet, single work children's fiction (p. 51-54)
- Marom, single work children's fiction (p. 65)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Stories for 8 Year Olds Edited by Linsay Knight
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , January 2013;
— Review of Stories for Eight Year Olds 2005 anthology children's fiction
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Stories for 8 Year Olds Edited by Linsay Knight
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Buzz Words , January 2013;
— Review of Stories for Eight Year Olds 2005 anthology children's fiction
Last amended 4 May 2015 15:54:22