Five-minute Princess Stories: Short Stories to Share (Miles Kelly)

With a mighty 384 pages, Five-minute Princess Stories is an enchanting collection of more than 30 illustrated short tales for schoolchildren.

• Ideal for storytime with school-aged children;
• A great gift for 5 year olds to 10 year olds;
• Charming, detailed illustrations;
• Each story takes just 5 minutes to read and share.

You and your child can enjoy one or more 5-minute stories together, to bond and to develop their listening skills, attention span and vocabulary. Each story is accompanied by delightful illustrations to capture and feed the imagination of your child, and encourage a lifelong love of reading.

Enter a realm of royalty, regality and beautiful princesses, created by much-loved and lesser-known storytellers. Stories include:

• The Twelve Dancing Princesses by the Brothers Grimm – no-one knows why the princesses' shoes are so torn until a prince follows them at night;
• The Fair Princess, an extract from E Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle – three children come across a sleeping princess who takes them on an adventure of imagination into the castle;
• The Princess and the Lion, a traditional Spanish fairy tale – a poor, kind woman helps a lion to find out that he is actually an enchanted prince.

This bumper storybook is divided into sections of The Fairest in the Land, Enchanting Adventures, Gallant Girls and Brave Lasses and From Rags to Riches. There are also short biographies for some of the illustrators.