Children's short stories

Our recommendations

If there’s going to be a story, don’t you think I’ve got as good a right as anyone to choose it?

Richard Adams – Watership Down

About our children's short stories

For when time is short, or when children want to first start reading on their own, arm them with short stories to build their skills, confidence and love of literature. Classics like The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde, Hans Christian Andersen’s short stories (retold by Naomi Lewis) and Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green will bring adventure and magic into children’s reading. Doctor Who fans will love Dave Rudden’s The Wintertime Paradox collection while R J Palacio heads back into the world of Wonder for the Auggie & Me stories. From the familiar to the new, short stories will whet children’s appetite’s for more fictional adventures.