Astonishingly good stories
Spratt, R. A.2022
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Featuring Greek myths and fractured fairytales as told by Nanny Piggins (the world's most glamorous flying pig), a mystery investigated by Friday Barnes (girl detective) and a series of tales so tall they will give you altitude sickness.This book will delight children from four to one hundred and four. Just the thing for reading at bedtime, when you're supposed to be doing your homework or when you've been chased up a tree by an escaped rhinoceros and you're waiting for the zookeeper to arrive.
Main title:
Astonishingly good stories / R.A. Spratt.
Author:
Spratt, R. A., author
Imprint:
Melbourne, Vic. : Puffin Books, 2022.
Collation:
209 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Audience:
Upper primary
Contents:
"The elves and the shoemaker' as told by Nanny Piggins'The legend of Icarus' as told by Nanny PigginsA tall tale about big sisters... and dark pasts'Romeo and Juliet' as told by Nanny Piggins'George Washington and the Cherry Tree' as told by Nanny Piggins'Swine Lake' as told by Nanny PigginsA tall tale about Valkyries ... and MulletsFriday Barnes and the case of the stolen star'Hercules and the Augean Stables' as told by Nanny Piggins'The scorpion and the frog' as told by Nanny PigginsA tall tale about floating leaves ... and vegetarian spiders'Sisyphus' as told by Nanny Piggins'The little merpig' as told by Nanny Piggins'Williamina Tell' as told by Nanny PigginsA tall tale about socks ... and goblins'The Snow Queen' as told by Nanny PigginsA tall tale about giants ... and libraries'The legend of the Trojan Horse' as told by Nanny Piggins'The woolf and the seven little pigs' as told by Nanny Piggins.
ISBN:
9780143779261 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
409703
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge | SPRATT | Available |