Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Once upon a time Once upon a time there was a book, and inside the book were princes who had been turned into frogs or ferocious beasts, princesses so beautiful they astonished the sun, faithful sweethearts and evil stepmothers, giants taller than mountains and a boy no bigger than your thumb, houses made of bread and cake and birds made of gold - in fact, all manner of mysterious, monstrous and magical things.

Barbecued billygoats!

Let fly jib sheet!

Charlotte is new, lonely and far from home.

Full of fantastical places like Kumdown Upwardz, Gadzooks and Urgburg-under-Ug, eccentric kings and queens, lessons in kindness, peace and even royal thriftiness, wrapped up in more than a smattering of nonsense, The Dribblesome Teapots brings together ten modern fairy tales to be enjoyed by generation after generation of young readers.

Wandering minstrel, Martin Pippin, encounters six little girls on his travels - who beg him to tell them stories.

Eureka's tears have flooded the earth and now Atlantis is rising, along with its evil king, Atlas.

Seventeen-year-old Eureka s life is taking on dark undercurrents that don t make sense .

Rebel.

How would you feel if you woke up and found another head growing out of your neck?

Michael, a young boy growing up on the tropical island of Rose Town, has been saving up for his own fishing boat for years.

Curl up with ultimate beloved Christmas classic!

'I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth!

'For God's sake, hold on!

I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very hard for Sara Crewe to like her new life at boarding school.

'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright'Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with their friend Laurie next door, and now it's time for them to go out and find their places in the big wide world, to do the great and marvellous things they've dreamed of and discover their 'castles in the air'.

Read this 19th-century childhood adventure story that confronts the reality of racism in America.

Wait, wait!

'You know what it's like.

Why do they call him Black Jake?

'I mean to do something grand.

Come Away!

Bursting with rich descriptive detail, discover the classic world of Treasure Island.

No man's cub can run with the people of the Jungle,' howled Shere Khan.

'"e;Stand firm'"e; said Peter, "e;and wave like mad!

'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?

'It's lovely to live on a raft.

Rediscover the favourite childhood classic.

"e;Ho!

"e;You saved your mistress's life, Beauty!

CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICEOh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting!

Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere.

A family is broken apart by the Second World War.

'Ahoy!

'Swallows and Amazons for ever!

He's madly sane and cleverly dotty.

A favourite game of the rich and beautiful Emma Woodhouse is dabbling in the marriage market, where she plays with everyone s hearts except her own.

Seduced and abandoned by the faithless Willoughby, Colonel Brandon s much-loved ward Eliza is sent to give birth in the countryside.

After the sad demise of Sir Thomas, Edmund Bertram and his new wife Fanny must sail to the West Indies in order to oversee the family s affairs.

Joan Aiken picks up the pen of her forerunner, Jane Austen, in this charming sequel to Pride and Prejudice.

Jamie is just an ordinary boy dealing with ordinary struggles: trying to fit in and avoiding his overbearing mother.

"e;The Scarecrow of Oz"e; is a 1915 novel by Layman Frank Baum.

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

Originally published in 1924, this collection The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen is illustrated with the magnificent Art Nouveau colour illustrations of Kay Nielsen.

This collection of 'Hans Christian Andersen Stories' contains eleven of Hans Christian's most well-loved tales, and is illustrated by the charming plates and black and white line drawings of Anne Anderson.

The famous sequel to Alice in Wonderland.

The final book in the Anne of Green Gables series is the story of Anne's youngest daughter, Bertha Marilla, affectionately known as Rilla, and the upheaval she experiences as the First World War commences.

With strong themes of love, friendship, conservation and hope, Bambi is the timeless tale of a young deer and his journey to becoming the Prince of the Forest.

"e;Tik-Tok of Oz"e; is a 1914 novel by Layman Frank Baum.

"e;I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a 'Nursery Edition' of Alice with pictures printed in.