Title: Poor Retelling
Product review: I got this book to use for preschool homeschool and I am disappointed in it. The illustrations are fine, but the stories themselves are terribly dumbed-down. Long tales are reduced to a few paragraphs, offering only the barest bones of story. I replaced it with Michael Hague's Treasured Classics, which offers more detail - and beautiful illustrations - without being too far over my preschoolers' heads. The only disappointment is that this book contains The Selfish Giant (told in so few words as to make it worthless) but the Hague does not. Don't bother with this bland book - you could tell the stories better yourself.
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