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Best-loved Children's Stories Cover Illustrator:Barbara Lanza Publishing company: Publications International, Ltd  Year of publishing: 2000 Number of pages: 384     There are nineteen stories in this book, and I have read nine. Most of them are popular, such as The Ant and Grasshopper, Thumbelina and Ali Baba. There is an interesting one that I have never heard of-The Twelve Dancing Princesses.   Long ago, there lived a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They lived in the same room with twelve beds in a row. Every morning, the king found them tired and all of their dancing slippers were worn to shreds. When he asked them to explain, they just said " We have been sleeping in our beds peacefully all night. " Therefore, the king issued a proclamation says that the first man to find out the mystery can marry one of his daughters. Many princes came to try their luck. However, they were all given a glass of wine by the eldest princess and fell asleep. No one figured out what happened.   One day, a soldier helped an old woman in the forest. In return, she told him the secret of the wine and gave him a cloak which will make him invisible. He listened to her. At night, he followed the princesses and found out the mystery. All the princesses went to dance acroos the lake. In the end, he married the eldest princess and they lived happily forever.   This book is very interesting. It reminds me of my childhood. I read the stories in Chinese when I was little and now I read them again in English. Although it is for children, there are still some words I don't konw. Reading this book is really relaxing.   PONY 呂佩穎