Terry Jones' Fairy Tales
Three raindrops have an argument on their way out of a cloud ...A silly King goes for a walk with a dog tied to each leg ...An enterprising herring, bored of the North Sea, decides to swim right round the world ...Thirty short stories of magic and adventure penned by Monty Python team member,...
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Three raindrops have an argument on their way out of a cloud ...A silly King goes for a walk with a dog tied to each leg ...An enterprising herring, bored of the North Sea, decides to swim right round the world ...Thirty short stories of magic and adventure penned by Monty Python team member, Terry Jones. Embracing the tradition of the fairy tale, but adding Jones' inimitable comic imagination and originality, each story makes a perfect bedtime read for children - and grown ups! 'Could become a 'modern classic' ...the book is a joy' - Brian Patten, "Spectator".
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140322620 (0140322620)
Publish date: June 1st 1993
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Series: The Fantastic World of Terry Jones
This collection of stories written by one of the members of Monty Python is very clever, very funny, and very surprising. They were written for his daughter and as the introduction points out, make good aloud reading Some of the stories end abruptly and the happy ending isn’t happy....