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The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket

Edward Ardizzone

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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!

Pages: 108

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Walck

Release: August 30, 1965

ISBN: 019271239X

ISBN 13: 9780192712394

The Old Nurse's Stocking Basket

Edward Ardizzone

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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!

Pages: 108

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Walck

Release: August 30, 1965

ISBN: 019271239X

ISBN 13: 9780192712394

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