Who has not heard the off-repeated request. "Tell me a Story?" Who has not experience of telling a story to a young listener and watch him hanging on to every word, wide-eyed, spell bound? Who has not watched a child eagerly flip over the pages of a picture book trying to read the story printed along-Side? Here, then come a collection of some of the finest gems that world literature has to offer-gleaning from the Aesop, the Brother's Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson and others.