The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck illustrated Beatrix Potter - THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCKBeatrix Potter wrote this book after moving to Hill Top, a farm that she bought in the Lake District in NW England.
Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer und Fahrten Mark Twain - Dieser Roman stellt eine Fortsetzung des 1876 erschienenen Romans Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer dar und wird häufig mit diesem in einem Band veröffentlicht.
Erick and Sally Johanna Spyri - The sun was shining so brightly through the foremost windows of the old schoolhouse in Upper Wood, that the children of the first and second classes appeared as if covered with gold.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife.
Fortune's Fool Rafael Sabatini - London 1665 is no place for Randal Holles, a former soldier in Cromwells army, now that the monarchy has been restored and the exploits of the Republicans are being condemned in the highest degree.
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century.
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny illustrated Beatrix Potter - The basis for the 2018 film, Peter Rabbit has been hailed as one of the bestselling stories of all time and has been adapted into countless mediums, including books, films, board games, coloring books, and more.
Excerpt: "e;Winifred sat by the nursery window, upon the wide cushioned seat, leaning her little pale face against the glass and gazing with big blue eyes towards the rosy sky, where the sun was setting in a blaze of golden glory.
Excerpt: "e;Danny Chatterton came up the street whistling a merry tune, while Don Scott lay under an apple-tree back of his father's house, munching an apple and scowling blackly, although the September afternoon was pleasant and sunny enough to put any boy in an agreeable humor.
Reveille was over at the military school, and the three boys on the end of the line nearest the mess hall walked slowly toward the broad steps of the big brick building ahead.
Excerpt: "e;Carols are still sung in almost numberless churches, lights glow on altars bound and wreathed with spruce and holly, trees are set up in innumerable homes, and mobs of merry children sing and dance around them, stockings take on grotesque shapes and hang gaping with treasures for early marauders on Christmas morning, and hosts of men and women keep the day in their hearts in all peace and piety.
Excerpt: "e;He always said he never knew which was worse, his name or his nose; but as he could get rid of neither, he accepted both in his own bright, happy way, and that ended the matter with him.
Excerpt: "e;When I was about five years of age, I was summoned, one morning, to the bedside of my father, where I learned that he was at the point of death from an accident.
When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who share the Green Meadows and Green Forest with him, she encourages him to speak with Old Mother Nature who is only too happy to help.
Parents, teachers, and young readers all over the world have enthusiastically welcomed the Dover reprints of Thornton Burgess's classic nature books, including the perennial bestseller, The Adventures of Peter Cottontail.
Winter's here, and there's a carpet of deep snow covering the Green Forest and the nearby meadow - which means Reddy Fox and Granny Fox are having trouble finding food.
When little Reddy Fox gets too big for his breeches and steals a plump pet hen in broad daylight, the stage is set for an exciting tale as Farmer Brown's boy pursues Reddy with loaded gun and Bowser the Hound.
Determined to see the Great World beyond the familiar vistas of the Smiling Pool, Laughing Brook, Green Meadows, and Green Forest, Grandfather Frog leaps forth to tumble haplessly into the pitfalls of greed, boastfulness, and carelessness.
In this delightfully told tale, Burgess chronicles the escapades of Chatterer the Red Squirrel, who's known throughout the Green Forest as a mischief maker.
Excerpt: "e;When Sir John Franklin, arctic navigator, with canoe crews of Indians and voyageurs, eastbound after exploring the Great Lakes, pitched wigwams in the summer of 1839 at the confluence of stream and lake where the nucleus of present Cobourg, Canada, was taking root, little did these adventurous and actual forerunners of easy steam locomotion think that from a point where they camped a railroad would thirteen years later bisect the unbroken forest.
Synopsis: Die Romane Tom Sawyers Abenteuer und Streiche und Huckleberry Finns Abenteuer und Fahrten von Mark Twain zählen zu den Klassikern der Jugendliteratur.
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.
Pinocchio Carlo Collodi - Die Geschichte von der Holzpuppe, die das Gute lernt und ein richtiger Junge wird, ist weltweit bekannt und auf Englisch seit über einem Jahrhundert bekannt.
