The War of the Worlds

H G Wells

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• When four Martian spaceships land in England, masses of people flee the cities, driven by an overwhelming fear of the alien creatures with their devas... Lees meer

African Myths and Folk Tales

Carter Godwin Woodson

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• How was the earth formed, and where did animals come from? Why does the hippopotamus live in water, and why do cats chase rats? Imaginative answers to... Lees meer

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• As the days grow colder, little Whitefoot the Wood Mouse decides it is time to find a warm, safe place to spend the winter. The happy little creature ... Lees meer

The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• One day, Peter Rabbit happens upon a surprise visitor to the Smiling Pool. It's Mrs. Quack the Duck, who is dreadfully upset after having narrowly esc... Lees meer

Bowser the Hound

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Bowser the Hound isn't very clever -- certainly not as clever as Old Man Coyote, who's full of tricks! There's one thing, though, that Bowser's really... Lees meer

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Scottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated A Child's Garden of Verses to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhoo... Lees meer

Irish Fairy Tales

Philip Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• The age-old charm of Irish folklore gives special sparkle to this collection of eight tongue-in-cheek tales. Wicked old hags, clever leprechauns, cour... Lees meer

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Set in seventeenth-century France, this swashbuckling novel relates the daring escapades of D'Artagnan, a Gascon adventurer, and his three friends -- ... Lees meer

The Adventures of Bob White

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Bob White is a busy bird with many friends, so why is he keeping his new nest a secret? Why did Mrs. Bob White choose such a dangerous location for th... Lees meer

The Adventures of Old Man Coyote

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• "Listen," whispered Jimmy Skunk to Peter Rabbit as the strange howling sound echoed through the Green Forest. But Peter was listening. He had never he... Lees meer

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Throughout her long and successful career, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) had a reputation for delighting readers with stories about people whose... Lees meer

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Orphaned at an early age and taken in by her young aunt Dete, Heidi--short for Adelheid--is soon in the way. Dete has a new and better job where Heidi... Lees meer

The Adventures of Reddy Fox

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• When little Reddy Fox gets too big for his breeches and steals a plump pet hen in broad daylight, the stage is set for an exciting tale as Farmer Brow... Lees meer

Old Granny Fox

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Winter's here, and there's a carpet of deep snow covering the Green Forest and the nearby meadow -- which means Reddy Fox and Granny Fox are having tr... Lees meer

Favorite Poems of Childhood

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," Eugene... Lees meer

Mother West Wind's Children

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Danny Meadow Mouse learns to laugh, Grandfather Frog gets even, and the Merry Little Breezes have a busy day in the second volume of Thornton Burgess'... Lees meer

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• When Jimmy Skunk curls up to take a nap in an old barrel, the imp of mischief gets the better of Peter Rabbit. Tons of trouble plague the long-eared p... Lees meer

The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Other Read-Aloud Stories

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Storytime magic casts its spell in this treasury of time-honored tales from many lands. Handed down from one generation to another are such delightful... Lees meer

The Ugly Duckling and Other Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Among the most beloved fairy tales in literature, the stories of Hans Christian Andersen have been delighting children and adults for generations. The... Lees meer

Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Chafed by the sivilized restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a... Lees meer

Cinderella and Other Stories from the Blue Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a brilliant Scottish scholar, man of letters, and serious student of folklore. His series of "fairy books" is generally re... Lees meer

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Here are two favorite stories by "the father of American literature" exactly as Washington Irving wrote them, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with s... Lees meer

Dracula

Bram Stoker

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying inc... Lees meer

The Adventures of Mr. Mocker

Thornton W Burgess

• Paperback | Engels | Dover Children's Thrift Classics
• Something strange is going on in the Green Forest! Sticky-toes the Tree Toad hears his own voice coming from another tree, yet he hasn't said anything... Lees meer