The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Oscar Wilde

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• Since then the stories have been constantly reprinted and, despite the author's disclaimer, children have made the tales their own, a particular favou... Lees meer

The Poppy Seed Cakes

Margery Clark

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• Auntie Katusha has just come from the Old Country, bringing poppy seeds to make cakes for a mischievous four-year-old boy named Andrewshek. A little n... Lees meer

The Swiss Family Robinson

Johann Wyss

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• This classic story of a Swiss family - pastor, wife and four sons -shipwreaked on an uninhabited island (most fortunately blessed with an unlikely pro... Lees meer

The Eagle of the Ninth

Rosemary Sutcliff

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• Around the year 117 AD, the Ninth Legion, stationed at Eburacum - modern day York - marched north to suppress a rebellion of the Caledonian tribes, an... Lees meer

The Adventures Of Robin Hood

Roger Lancelyn Green

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• The story of Robin Hood, said Roger Lancelyn Green can never die, nor cease to fire the imagination. Roger Lancelyn Green has used as his sources the ... Lees meer

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• Originally published as a serial in the children's monthly magazine ST NICHOLAS, LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY was Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's... Lees meer

Cautionary Verses

Hilaire Belloc

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• These classic tales of Awful Warnings about the consequences of Bad Behaviour are among the best of comic verse ever written for children. This editio... Lees meer

Fables

Aesop

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• Aesop is believed to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The Fables had already been popular for centuries bef... Lees meer

The Railway Children

E Nesbit

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• Roberta is the eldest daughter of a man unjustly sent to prison, who shows great courage, and who is ultimately reunited with her father when he is vi... Lees meer

Little Men

Louisa May Alcott

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• Just two years after the extraordinarily successful publication of LITTLE WOMEN and GOOD WIVES, Louisa Alcott's brother-in-law died, leaving two sons. Lees meer

Everyman Book Of Nonsense Verse

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• Wonderful collection of nonsense verse, from Chesterton to Dahl, Lear to Carroll. With beautitul, original illustrations, both full colour and black &... Lees meer

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• This story of two spoilt and lonely children, whose happiness is regained as they bring to life a neglected garden, has become the best-loved of all M... Lees meer

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

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• Defoe's most celebrated story of Crusoe's shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his soliatry life on a desert island and his rescue of Man F... Lees meer

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

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• Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adapti... Lees meer

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

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• The exotically named Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a Hungarian aristocrat who came to London at the age of fifteen. Everyman's Library Children's... Lees meer

Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

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• Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg. Sold to a circus, then to a man who tries to drown him for his d... Lees meer

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

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• Kipling began these stories in Vermont, to amuse his daughter when they were living in his wife's home town. The comic explanations, such as "how the ... Lees meer

At The Back Of The North Wind

George Macdonald

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• With 13 children of his own clamouring for bedtime stories it isn't surprising that author George MacDonald discovered he had a gift for composing fai... Lees meer

Little Red Riding Hood

Charles Perrault

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• This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous f... Lees meer

A Book Of Nonsense

Edward Lear

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• Edward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon... Lees meer

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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• First published in Germany in 1812, these tales were collected by the two brothers Grimm from neighbouring villages and spinning rooms, and include "H... Lees meer

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Stevenson's great adventure story, set in the 18th century, was conceived in the Scottish Highlands, where the author and his 12-year-old stepson amus... Lees meer

The Light In The Forest

Conrad Richter

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• But when the tribe signs a treaty that requires them to return their white captives, 15-year-old True Son is returned against his will to the family h... Lees meer

A Child's Garden Of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the chil... Lees meer