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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409025948
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

The Tale Of Tales



A delightful collection of poems from the award-winning Tony Mitton.

A brand new poetry book for children by award-winning poet Tony Mitton. Beautifully illustrated by Peter Bailey, The Tale of Tales is the story of a group of animals who are on a journey. Each animal in turn tells a story to the rest of the group (a bit like in The Canterbury Tales) as they travel on their way. Join Monkey, Elephant and friends on their journey to Volcano Valley to hear the greatest story of all, the Tale of Tales.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409025948
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

About the authors

Peter Bailey

Peter Bailey has illustrated numerous children's books, and lives in Liverpool.

Tony Mitton

Tony Mitton is an award-winning poet, whose gently mesmerising, often humorous poetry is irresistible to both children and adults alike. He is an extremely versatile author, writing story poems and shorter verse with skill and wit. Tony does lots of author events, school visits and poetry readings and always leaves his audience entranced.

He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.

Praise for The Tale Of Tales

A deeply enjoyable and attractive little picture book, excellent for reading aloud, and provides a very promising model for showing children how stories can be recreated

Books for Keeps

An outstanding book . . . A wonderful collection of the world's stories told in reverse

The School Librarian

Beautifully presented . . . This is a lovely book for sharing

Inis

Great fun, great variety and great endorsement of storytelling

Irish Times

There are shades of Kipling and Chaucer in this book as a band of animal travellers take it in turns to tell stories as they travel to hear The Tale of Tales. The tales are perfectly complemented by Peter Bailey's wonderfully varied black and white illustrations

The Bookseller