Stories for Seven Year Olds (Treasuries)

This is a great book! Great bedtime story book.

I read this when I was 7 (over 20 years ago) and loved the stories. Buying this for my own kid now.

I bought this book yesterday for an upcoming trip, thinking it would be a space-saver with 19 stories in one small paperback. (We read to our kiddos before bedtime every night, even when we travel.) Then I read the previous review today. The reviewer was right on. The story in the middle of the book, The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple by Arthur Ransome, is much too graphic and frightening for almost any seven year old. Let's put it this way: I would be worried if a child wasn't upset by this story. It's too bad, because most of the rest of the book is excellent, (although I admit that I haven't yet read the Bros. Grimm tale -- I generally find them either too frightening or too downright depressing for my taste). I still gave it 4 stars because I think most of the collection is very good and it includes many stories we have not read before, but we will be reading these aloud and not let our daughter, the voracious reader in family, get her hands on it. Thanks to the previous reviewer for the heads-up.