This volume comprises thirty-one books or bits of books by some of the world's favourite authors and illustrators, including Jill Murphy, Chris Riddell, Marcia Williams, Martin Waddell, Nicola Bayley, Colin McNaughton, Martin Handford, Helen Oxenbury, Patrick Benson, Kim Lewis, Dick King-Smith, John Burningham, William Mayne, Shirley Hughes, Colin and Jacqui Hawkins, Jez Alborough, Charlotte Voake, Jill Barton, Michael Foreman, Lucy Cousins, Sarah Hayes, Helen Craig, Virginia Miller, Arthur Robins, Jan Ormerod, Ingia Moore, Lewis Carroll, Anthony Brovne, Barbara Firth, Nick Sharratt and many more. Among the gems are the whole of the 1991 Smarties Book Prize Winner, "Farmer Duck" and the 1989 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award Winner "The Park in the Dark", as well as extracts from "Where's Wally? The Magnificent Poster Book"; "Greek Myths"; Michael Foreman's "Book of Mother Goose" and Anthony Browne's classic version of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"m.