title: The Random House Book of Easy-to-Read Stories
author: Various
description: Kindergarten-Grade 3-This somewhat disappointing collection includes 16 stories, all previously published. Richard Scarry, Jane O'Connor, Laurent De Brunhoff, Tomie dePaola, Harriet Ziefert, Stan and Jan Berenstain, and Marc Brown are among the authors and illustrators included. However, the quality of the selections is uneven. Excerpted chapters from perennial favorites like Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks (1965) and P.D. Eastman's Go, Dog, Go! (1966) appear along with Jon Buller and Susan Schade's mundane 20,000 Baseball Cards under the Sea (1991) and Katherine Ross's ho-hum adaptation of The Ugly Duckling (1991, all Random). Additionally, the organization is haphazard with some of the easiest stories lost in the middle where intimidated beginning readers will never venture. Nonetheless, there are those youngsters who will be thrilled to find "a fat" book that they can read and carry around like a trophy. Too bad there's so much mediocre filler.<br /><i>Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, ID</i><br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  2006 Ballantine Books Mass Market Edition  
    
  
  Copyright © 1996 by Kristin Hannah  
    
  
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   **CONTENTS**
  
  [ _Cover_](Hann_9780345490926_epub_cvi_r1.htm)
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Copyright_
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chap