Ten Minute Tales will be invaluable to anyone with children aged 3 to 7 years old. This book contains 15 amusing short stories ideal for reluctant readers, for reading at the end of the day at Nursery, or at the childminder's or at bedtime. The author, Mavis Brown, a retired teacher, was commissioned to write most of these stories by the publishers, Scholastic, for their magazine Nursery Education.