The green arches / Joan Aiken --
The Aztec opal / Rodrigues Ottolengui --
Wuthering Heights (an extract) / Emily Brontë --
The girl who kissed a peach tree (an Italian folktale) / Eleanor Farjeon --
The thing in the pond / Paul Ernst --
Smart ice cream / Paul Jennings --
The pelican / Ann Pilling --
The adventures of Johnnie Waverly / Agatha Christie --
The tower / Carl Jung --
The scythe / Ray Bradbury --
A sea above the sky / Thomas Wright --
A vine on the house / Ambrose Bierce --
The master / Diana Wynne Jones.