By Gavin Bishop
This month we bring you a Sampling of pages from a new hardback collection of ten classic Gavin Bishop stories.
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This new collection was released this week, and features four of his original stories and six of his retellings of fairy stories: Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant; Bidibidi; Mr Fox; Chicken Licken; A Apple Pie; The Three Little Pigs; Little Rabbit and the Sea; Stay Awake, Bear!; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; and Rats!
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The Gavin Bishop Treasury: 10 Favourite Fairy Stories and Original Tales
By Gavin Bishop
Published by Puffin Books
RRP $44.99