Old Nurses Stocking-basket

Un libro de frailecillos: historias que duran toda la vida

Todas las noches, cuando los niños estaban metidos en la cama, la vieja enfermera sacaba un par de medias del cesto de remendar y mientras las enhebraba aguja buscaría en su memoria una historia que encajara con el tamaño del agujero. Los niños siempre dejaban de discutir de inmediato, porque ninguno de ellos quería perderse sus extraordinarias historias de príncipes y princesas, dioses griegos, capitanes de barco y otros personajes maravillosos con los que se había cruzado en sus cientos de años como niñera. ¡Todos los cuentos eran tan fascinantes que difícilmente se podía culpar a los niños por hacer grandes agujeros a propósito, para tener una larga historia que combinar!

Esta es una encantadora colección de cuentos de hadas para dormir, con evocadores dibujos lineales de Edward Ardizzone.

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A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime

Every night when the children were tucked up in bed, the Old Nurse would pull out a pair of stockings from the mending-basket and while she threaded her needle she would look in her memory for a story that fitted the size of the hole. The children always stopped their bickering at once, for none of them wanted to miss her extraordinary stories of princes and princesses, Greek gods, sea captains and other wonderful characters she had come across in her hundreds of years as a children's nurse. All the tales were so entrancing that the boys could hardly be blamed for sometimes making large holes on purpose, so that they'd have a long story to match!

This is a charming collection of bedtime fairytale stories, with evocative line drawings by Edward Ardizzone.

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime

Every night when the children were tucked up in bed, the Old Nurse would pull out a pair of stockings from the mending-basket and while she threaded her needle she would look in her memory for a story that fitted the size of the hole. The children always stopped their bickering at once, for none of them wanted to miss her extraordinary stories of princes and princesses, Greek gods, sea captains and other wonderful characters she had come across in her hundreds of years as a children's nurse. All the tales were so entrancing that the boys could hardly be blamed for sometimes making large holes on purpose, so that they'd have a long story to match!

This is a charming collection of bedtime fairytale stories, with evocative line drawings by Edward Ardizzone.