The Greatest Bed-Time Stories : Fascinating Tales of Magic, Fairies & Animal Tales (Peter Rabbit, The Wizard of Oz, Uncle Wiggily…)

Put your little ones to a snuggling sleep or go back yourself to the world of dreams and dreamers, magic, fairytales, legends and fantasy - with the greatest bed-time classics. Contents: Dragon Tales My Father's Dragon The Reluctant Dragon The Book of Dragons Animal Tales & Fables The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Benjamin Bunny The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies The Tailor of Gloucester Adventures of Peter Cottontail Mother West Wind Series The Burgess Bird Book for Children The Burgess Animal Book for Children The Velveteen Rabbit Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales Little Bun Rabbit Mother Goose in Prose Lulu's Library The Jungle Book The Second Jungle Book Just So Stories The Call of the Wild White Fang Black Beauty The Story of Doctor Dolittle The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Doctor Dolittle's Post Office The Story of a Nodding Donkey The Story of a Stuffed Elephant The Nutcracker and the Mouse King The Panchatantra Aesop Fables Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones The Russian Garland: Folk Tales Fairy tales & Fantasies Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang Peter Pan Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet The Enchanted Castle Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Collection At the Back of the North Wind The Princess and the Goblin The Princess and Curdie Wonder Book Tanglewood Tales The Happy Prince and Other Tales A House of Pomegranates All the Way to Fairyland The Blue Bird for Children The King of the Golden River Rootabaga Stories Knock Three Times! The Cuckoo Clock Friendly Fairies Raggedy Ann Stories Raggedy Andy Stories Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi Old Peter's Russian Tales

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