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A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both ...Show more
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; Joan Collins (Editor); Ladybird Books Staff
Category: Children's | Series: Children's Classics Ser.
This story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come.A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Ch ...Show more
A Christmas Carol (HarperCollins Children's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: HarperCollins Children's Classics Ser.
This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. Complete your child’s library with HarperCollins Children’s Classics.
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton-PorterA Girl of the Limberlost is considered a classic of Indiana literature.The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp - at that time, a site of heavy logging and natural oil extraction.This Bildungsroman is structured as girl-meets-boy ...Show more
A Hat for Mr Mountain by Soojin Kwak
Category: Picture Books | Series: Macmillan Children's Classics Ser.
A sweet and funny picture book about kindness, creativity and how to make a hat for a mountain. Nara loves to make hats of all shapes and sizes for the animals who visit her workshop in the forest. Then one day she receives a letter from Mr Mountain: he wants a hat, too. Nara is up for the challenge, an ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Category: Children's Books | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is an expanded version of the short story Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Pri ...Show more
A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Stephanie Baudet; Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: The\Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection (Easy Classics) Ser.
At quarter to eight o'clock tonight a gentleman will call. He would like to ask you about a very important matter. Do not think it odd if your visitor wears a mask. When Sherlock Holmes is asked for help by a powerful yet dim king, it seems that he cannot refuse. But the detective has no idea that this ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Arianna Bellucci (Illustrator); Stephanie Baudet (Adapted by)
Category: Children's | Series: The\Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection (Easy Classics) Ser.
The astonishing debut of Sherlock Holmes and his partner in detection, Dr. Watson Shot in the shoulder and brought to death's door by typhoid fever, Dr. John Watson is sent home from the second Afghan war with a small income and nothing to do but recover his health. By his own account, he leads a mea ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
Category: Children's | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C., a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to him
Aesop's Fables by Aesop ; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by);
Category: Children's | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, and don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs These simple allegories -- abounding in paradoxes, ambiguities, and ironies -- embody great truths. Attributed to a legendary storyteller of ancient Greece, they speak to readers and listeners of all ages and cultur ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics) by Aesop
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics Ser.
This beautiful volume features more than 200 of Aesop's fables, selected for young readers and illustrated with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes such classics as: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Tortoise and the Hare, The City Mouse and the Country ...Show more
African Folk Tales by Hugh Vernon-Jackson (Editor); Yuko Green (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics Ser.
This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative "Story of a Farmer and Four Hyenas" to an ente ...Show more