Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

In a battle of wits, who will win?

We all know about Goldilocks and the three bears, but did you know that the little bear really runs the show?

Pumpkin?

In London, 1872, a man named Phileas Fogg makes a bet that he can travel across the entire planet in eighty days.

Peter Pan is a special boy.

Young Robinson Crusoe has grown bored with life, so he runs away from home to travel the world.

Ebenezer Scrooge has always hated Christmas, but this particular Eve he's given a new reason: the ghost of Jacob Marley has come to visit!

George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie form one of the foundational diptychs of Victorian fantasy literature.

A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades - the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, a tough and spirited girl's adventures growing up in a northern post-war mining town.

A pilot crashes in the desert, and a boy from the stars asks him to draw a sheep.

'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be'When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time.

And so this is little Lord Fauntleroy Ceddie is a regular little boy living in New York with his mother, until the day a tall, old gentleman arrives to give him some startling news.

Anthea, Cyril, Robert, Jane, and the Lamb are back the Psammead may have vanished but there are plenty of wishes still to be granted.

We always allow one pillow-fight Saturday night Did you ever wonder what happened to Jo March from Little Women?

'My dear girls, stop your mud-pies and hear the news!

THE COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED TEXT'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it'When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly.

'The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick' When a tornado crashes through Kansas City, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked far away, over the rainbow, to a strange land called Oz.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales recasts the great myths of Greece-among them Perseus and Medusa, the Golden Touch of King Midas, Pandora's box, the Minotaur, and the Golden Fleece-as luminous moral romances for young readers.

This wonderful collection of stories for children, contains a wealth of classic tales adapted for the younger reader.

This is a wonderful collection of myths and legends adapted for the young reader.

Xingu' is a short story about a woman's luncheon club devised as a means of keeping its members up to date with the latest goings on in the world.

Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

'Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898) - better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

The classic tale of The Travelling Musicians is illustrated in colour and black and white by English illustrator John Hassall.

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty is illustrated in colour and black and white by English illustrator John Hassall.

The classic tale of Roland and May-Bird and The Three Children of Fortune is illustrated in colour and black and white by English illustrator John Hassall.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

The classic tale of Aladdin is illustrated in colour and black and white by English illustrator John Hassall.

Join Alice as she takes a tumble down a rabbit hole and finds herself in an ever-curious fantasy world.

'Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

Alice in Wonderland' is the best known work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898), better known by his pen name, 'Lewis Carroll'.

This book, originally published in 1908, contains the classic tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

This book, originally published in 1908, contains the classic tale of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

A sequel to The Story Girl, this cherished story by L.

This vintage book contains Karel Capek's delightful children's tale "e;Dashenka, or the Life of a Puppy"e;.

Volume one of the Children's Treasure Book is Swift's classic tale of Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput, pictured with charming illustrations by D.

Volume three of the Children's Treasure Book contains The Arabian Nights.

The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is an abridged narrative from Malory's classic text, Morte D'Arthur, edited by Alfred W.

Anne and Gilbert's family continues to thrive in the charming community of Glen St.

This beautiful little book tells the tales of Pussy Cat and her kittens, Tuff, Buff, Fluff, and Ruff.

'The Rainbow Book' is a wonderful collection of children's stories, written by M.

This delightful play written by Julia Ellsworth Ford and is loosely based around Oscar Wilde's "e;The Selfish Giant"e;.

The Stories of King Arthur are retold here, by A.

Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale of The Ugly Duckling illustrated in colour and black and white by English illustrator John Hassall.

A collection of 17 of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tales illustrated with many black and white drawing by E.