''The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories'' is a collection of nine

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

Jamila Gavin Jamila Gavin (born 9 August 1941) is a British writer born in Mussoorie in the United Provinces of India, in the present-day state of Uttarakhand in the Western Himalayas. She is known mainly for children's books, including several with Indian ...

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Each story of this collection is a product of the child's imagination, according to Gavin in the introduction. The events in the story did not take place anywhere, but are some fantasies in the main character's mind. The nine stories in this collection are: * Pearly's Adventure with the Giant Bird * Robbie and the Fearsome Beastie * Aziz and the Amazing Motorbike Ride * How Grandma Saved the Day * John and the Green Dragon * Midnight Cows * The Miraculous Orange Tree * Anna in the Land of Clocks * Danny and the Cats

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