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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme by Arthur Ransome
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Calla Editions
The most popular of the Arabian Nights stories is brought to life in lilting verse. Written by renowned British children's books author Arthur Ransome, this stunning edition of the 1919 original is beautifully illustrated with rich graphic motifs and ornamentation. It also features 12 full-colour plates ...Show more
Coot Club (#5 Swallows & Amazons) by Arthur Ransome
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a week's cruise to teach his new friends, Dick and Dorothea how to sail. You couldn't get a better sailor tha ...Show more
Coot Club (Swallows and Amazons #5) by Arthur Ransome
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Swallows and Amazons
'Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!' Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail. They couldn't hope for a better teacher than Tom Dudgeon. But Tom is in a spot of trouble. After seeing the beastly Margoletta moored clean across the nests of ...Show more
Favorite Russian Fairy Tales by Arthur Ransome
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics
Six tales of witches, and wizardry, perilous journeys, wise animals, frightful giants and beautiful princesses, among them the legendary Fire-Bird, the dulcimer-playing Sadko, the iron-toothed witch Baba Yaga, and a goat that sneezes gold pieces. Newly reset in large, easy-to-read type, with 6 new illus ...Show more
Great Northern? (Swallows & Amazons #12) by Arthur Ransome
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
Dick's birdwatching discovery turns the cruise of the Sea Bear into a desperate chase. The Swallows and Amazons have to prove the facts of the case, and evade the natives and an egg-collector, determined to kill a pair of rare birds and steal the credit.
Great Northern? (Swallows and Amazons #12) by Arthur Ransome
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Swallows and Amazons
Flat on his front, binoculars to his eyes, alone at dusk, Dick makes a remarkable discovery: two rare birds, never before seen in the British Isles. Captain Flint and his crew decide to consult an expert to confirm the discovery. But when the man they ask turns out to have his collector's eye on the bir ...Show more
Little Daughter of the Snow by Arthur Ransome
Category: Picture Books
Childless and sad, an Russian man and his wife watch the village children playing in the snow. One day, they decide to make their own little snow girl. Her eyes start to shine, her hair turns black and she comes alive! But, as Little Daughter of the Snow tells them, she isn't quite like other children. ...Show more
Missee Lee (#10) by Arthur Ransome
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Swallows and Amazons
'So long,' called the harbourmaster. 'Don't run into Missee Lee!' The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint don't pay much heed to the harbourmaster's friendly warning as they set off for China. They are on a round-the-world voyage aboard the Wild Cat and it's been plain sailing for a hundred ports. But w ...Show more
Missee Lee (Swallows & Amazons #10) by Arthur Ransome
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
Nancy Blackett, the terror of the seas, has finally met a real pirate - the tiny, pistol-carrying Missee Lee, who has rescued them after their shipwreck off the coast of China. The only trouble is she wants to keep them - forever.
Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Swallows and Amazons Ser.
The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Soon their boat is on its way to a Caribbean treasure hunt and they find themse ...Show more
Peter Duck (#3 Swallows & Amazons) by Arthur Ransome
Category: Children's Classics
The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high. Soon their boat is on its way to a Caribbean treasure hunt and they find themse ...Show more