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The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff; C. Walter Hodges (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN's CLASSICS Ser.
"The Everyman edition reprints the classic black and white illustrations of C. Walter Hodges which accompanied the first edition in 1954.Around the year 117 AD, the Ninth Legion, stationed at Eburacum - modern day York - marched north to suppress a rebellion of the Caledonian tribes, and was never heard ...Show more
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff; C. Walter Hodges (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
"The Everyman edition reprints the classic black and white illustrations of C. Walter Hodges which accompanied the first edition in 1954.Around the year 117 AD, the Ninth Legion, stationed at Eburacum - modern day York - marched north to suppress a rebellion of the Caledonian tribes, and was never heard ...Show more
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children by Gillian Avery
Category: Education | Series: Everyman's library children's classics
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children is a treasury of great poems chosen for the sheer pleasure they offer to readers of all ages. Compiler Gillian Avery's aim was to avoid condescending to children and "to assemble a collection of poems that the owner will not outgrow." With that in mind, she ...Show more
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children by Thomas Bewick
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Gillian Avery, novelist and historian of children's books, has compiled this collection of her favourite poems. Her choice of over 250 pieces range from ballads to Ted Hughes, from Ben Jonson to Noel Coward.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
Category: Children's | Series: Everyman's library children's classics
A beautiful, golden, jewel-studded statue and a little swallow give all they have to help the poor.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Children's | Series: Everyman's library children's classics
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle, as well as other animal stories and songs.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's library children's classics
Robert Browning's famous verse retelling of the medieval legend of the Pied Piper is renowned for its humor and vivid wordplay. When the selfish townspeople of Hamelin refuse to pay the piper for spiriting away the hordes of rats that had plagued them, he exacts his revenge by luring away their greatest ...Show more
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
One of the most successful and beloved of Victorian fairy tales, George Macdonald's The Princess and the Goblin tells the story of young Princess Irene and her friend Curdie, who must outwit the threatening goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home. Macdonald's pioneering use of fanstasy as a ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
When a harrowing storm forces their ship aground, and having been abandoned by their crew, a Swiss family--a pastor, his wife, and their two sons--is forced to survive on a deserted tropical island. Using supplies from the abandoned ship, the intrepid family builds a rewarding new life and triumphs over ...Show more
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
Category: Children's Books | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Category: Children's Books | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camarader ...Show more