Short!: A Book of Very Short Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0192781480
- ISBN-13
- 9780192781482
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 96
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Kevin Crossley-Holland
Description
The longest of the stories in this book is short, and the shortest is just one sentence long. Which means there are lots of stories : a whole bookful to make you think, laugh, Shiver, and think again.
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