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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 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
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
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
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
Category: Children's Books | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on my toes by the new twins, Dora and Davy, life at Green Gables is just as eventful as ever.I do try to be a little more grow ...Show more
Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
In this fifth book of the Anne of Green Gables series, our red-haired heroine finally marries her childhood sweetheart and true love, Gilbert Blythe. After a ceremony in the sunshine of the old orchard at Green Gables, surrounded by the loving faces of long-familiar friends, the young doctor and his bri ...Show more
BOYS KING ARTHUR by LANIER SIDNEY
Category: Children's Books | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
This rousing collection of tales offers readers an adventure-packed introduction to the legendary King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Retold by the famous American poet and writer Sidney Lanier, the stories are adapted from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, written in the15th century. T ...Show more
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
This wonderful classic combines three unbeatable elements: a sea story, lively and dynamic characters, and a protagonist who undergoes a transformation. Harvey Cheyne is the pampered son of a multimillionaire who falls off an ocean liner and is rescued by a small fishing boat. After being punched in th ...Show more
Cautionary Tales and Bad Child's Book of Beasts by Hilaire Belloc
Category: Picture Books | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
DADDY LONG LEGS by JEAN WEBSTER
Category: Children's Books | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Daddy-Long-LegsJean WebsterFirst published in 1912, this young adult novel is comprised mostly of letters from orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott to her anonymous benefactor whom she names "Daddy Long Legs". The letters chronicle her departure from the orphanage through four years of college. Judy makes new f ...Show more
Denslow's Mother Goose by W. W. Denslow
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
This treasury of childhood rhymes features all the nursery favorites, from Humpty-Dumpty and Little Jack Horner to Old King Cole and his fiddlers three. Timeless color images by W. W. Denslow, the original illustrator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, depict Little Boy Blue, the Old Woman Who Lived in a S ...Show more
Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Thrilling crime-solving exploits of Holmes and Dr. Watson in a collection of adventure classics: "The Red-Headed League," "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Final Problem," "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," "Silver Blaze," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Engineer’s Thumb," and "The Crooked Man." ...Show more