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Puffin Book of Five-minute Stories

By: Puffin Books
Narrated by: Samantha Bond, Sophie Aldred, Christopher Timothy
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About this listen

Penguin presents the audio download edition of The Puffin Book of Five-minute Stories, read by Sophie Aldred and Christopher Timothy.

A lively collection of nineteen short, snappy stories, some old, some new, to make you gasp, laugh, frown or giggle.

Featuring:

The Little Wooden Horse
Clever Cakes
The Orchestra That Lost Its Voice
Ostriches Can't Fly
Little Red Riding Hood
Miss Dose the Doctor's Daughter
Ticky Picky Boom Boom
A Thousand Yards of Sea
The Gingerbread Man
Blessu
Hedgehogs Don't Eat Hamburgers
Mrs Simkin's Bathtub
The Horrendous Hullabaloo
How the Leopard Got His Spots
Puffling in a Pickle
Cold Feet
The Fish Cart
Wil's Tail
The Three Billy Goats Gruff

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not really suitable for kids, little red riding hood for example. the wolf in the story gets his stomach sliced open. little bit to much for my 3 year old to be listening to.

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