Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Join Pinnocchio as he learns what it means to be a real boy.

Black Beauty is the autobiography of a horse.

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time.

There was Delaney's red-haired trio-Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball.

King Arthur and his court come to life in this four volume omnibus of Howard Pyles 'Legends and Stories of King Arthur.

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For the happiness you have brought to them let me give to you the doll of all my dolls, the doll I loved most dearly.

The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology.

Collie to the Rescue tells the heart-warming tale of Thane, a beautiful corn-coloured collie who saves the lovely Kay Cormick's life from the charge of an rampant bull.

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology.

Kabumpo in Oz is the sixteenth Oz book, and the second written by Ruth Plumly Thompson.

After Emily Star's father died, making her an orphan, Emily was shipped off to New Moon Farm, owned by her mother's snobbish relatives.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel that tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.

Kabumpo in Oz is the sixteenth Oz book, and the second written by Ruth Plumly Thompson.

The novel takes place in the Netherlands, and is a colorful fictional portrait of early nineteenth-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful honor.

Princess Ellie is pony-mad!

A king and queen have a daughter and invite everyone to the christening except the king's sister Princess Makemnoit, a spiteful and sour woman.

This book tells the story of an impoverished, embarrassment-prone Drone Archibald "e;Archie"e; Moffam (pronounced "e;Moom"e;), and his difficult relationship with his art-collecting, hotel-owning millionaire father-in-law Daniel Brewster.

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are the embodiment of young boys from a simpler time.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women.

These two children's books were part of a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children.

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The story tells of how Prince Gregor, and his hero, the daring Winfried of England, journey through treacherous land to reach the heathen people of the forest on Christmas eve.

An international collection of children’s fairy tales: “Some of the first, and best, stories we ever hear in our lives” (The Washington Post).

Freshly returned from his voyages Doctor Dolittle decides to expand his zoo to include a home for crossbred dogs and a club for rodents.

A classic children’s tale of loyalty, perseverance, and the bond of friendship between a boy and his dog.

Prepare to set sail for many grand adventures with the delightful Doctor Dolittle.

White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a kidnapped, domesticated dog turning into a wild animal.

Pearl Zane Grey was best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts, but he also wrote two hunting books, six children's books, three baseball books, and eight fishing books.

'Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale' is a poetic retelling of one of the most famous of the Arthurian legends.

A new generation Famous Five: Jo, Dylan, Allie, and Max are the children of the four kids - and not forgetting Timmy II to make up the Five!

The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.

Ruth Plumly Thompson was hand picked by L.

In the first of the Ken Ward books, baseball rivalry knows no borders and no bounds, and when the entire varsity is declared ineligible because they played for money, the coach is required to create a team from scratch.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel 'Little Women.

We all love the classic fairy tales, but just how well do we remember them?

The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about.

First published in its original Dutch version in 1953, this is the English translation of Een helicopter daalde, which tells the story of a family in the Netherlands caught up in the middle of the 1953 North Sea flood disaster, brought on by a heavy storm that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953.

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology.

The Happy Prince and Other Stories is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde.

Ruth Plumly Thompson was hand picked by L.

While playing in a gravel pit near their new home, five children come across a Psammead, or sand fairy.

The second book in the delightful Fleurville Trilogy.

A rousing tale featuring a family named the Gilpins.

In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the gold-haired winged ram, which can be procured in Colchis.

Included in this book are three short, but heartfelt Christmas tales.

In yet another rollicking adventure, Doctor Dolittle helps to capture a slave trader's ship, organizes the postal service of a small African kingdom, Fantippo, discovers a hidden island populated by prehistoric creatures, gets thrown into another African jail, invents animal alphabets, and defeats at least two armies.