Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

'you will be held entranced by the adventures of charming Aslaug, you will revel in Baldur the Beautiful, and marvel at the wisdom of Odin.

This collection, 'The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - with Honor Appleton illustrations' is decorated with the magnificent colour and black-and-white artwork of Honor C.

This wonderful book contains fifteen stories that have been adapted from poems by some of the greats of that past 700 years.

Mother Goose - The Old Nursery Rhymes is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes, penned by the legendary (and only some claim imaginary), 'Mother Goose.

Arthur Rackham's illustrations paint Alice's fantasy world in dark, ethereal tones in this enchanting edition of Lewis Carroll's beloved children's story.

This story, 'The Diverting History Of John Gilpin', was one of the first two books illustrated by Caldecott and was originally published in 1878.

'Baby's Own Aesop - Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme with Portable Morals' is a collection of Aesop's fables, beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane, and originally engraved and printed by Edmund Evans, in 1887.

'The Pied Piper of Hamelin - with Kate Greenaway illustrations' is a tale concerning the mysterious disappearance of a great number of children from a town in Lower Saxony, Germany - originating in the Middle Ages.

'The Babes in the Wood' is a traditional children's tale, telling the touching story of two innocents, abandoned in the woods.

This story, 'The House That Jack Built', was was one of the first two books illustrated by Caldecott and was originally published in 1878 as part of Caldecott's 'Picture Books' series.

'The Baby's Opera - A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses' was originally published in 1877.

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Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886) was one of the most important British illustrators.

Originally published in 1922, Hans Andersen Stories, is illustrated with the magnificent colour and black and white illustrations of Jennie Harbour.

This charming book was originally published in 1912.

This collection, 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales' contains eighteen of Hans Christian's best-loved tales, and is illustrated by the charming plates and black and white line drawings of Anne Anderson.

Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This book 'The Song Of Sixpence Picture Book' is one of the celebrated 'Toy Books' produced by Walter Crane and Edmund Evans.

This children's story, 'The Farmers Boy ', was originally published in 1881 as part of Caldecott's 'Picture Books' series.

This well known children's nursery rhyme, 'Sing A Song For Sixpence - with Randolph Caldecott illustrations', was originally published in 1880 as part of Caldecott's 'Picture Books' series.

This story, 'The Three Jovial Huntsmen', was originally published in 1880 as one of Randolph Caldecott's sixteen 'Picture Books'.

'Queen Summer - Or the Tourney of the Lily and the Rose' was originally published in 1891.

Containing the best of Aesop's fables, this text presents a variety of entertaining stories with thought-provoking morals - alongside Rackham's beautifully imaginative and humourous illustrations.

Animal Stories - by Rudyard Kipling features some of the best-loved animal tales of all time.

Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes is a delightful illustrated children's book, first published in 1885.

Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes, penned by the legendary (and only some claim imaginary), 'Mother Goose.

When Rosie finds a beautiful silk picture frame decorated with a little princess sitting on an elephant, she is soon whisked away on another adventure - this time in India.

When Rosie finds a Russian doll high on a shelf in the big dining-room of her great-aunt Rosamund's Scottish castle, she opens up the two halves of the doll and finds another one underneath, and another one, and another one, until she's left with a tiny Russian Princess doll in the palm of her hand.

Rosie can't wait to move to her Great-aunt Rosamund's castle in the Scottish Highlands.

There's nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family - and they're keen to keep it that way.

The third book of the Quint saga, part of the bestselling Edge ChroniclesYoung sky-pirate Quint Verginix s family was devastated when his mother and brothers were killed in a vicious arson attack.

The third book of the Rook Saga, part of the bestselling Edge ChroniclesFleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, young librarian knight Rook Barkwater and his colleagues Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.

The second book of the Rook Saga, part of the bestselling Edge ChroniclesWhen young librarian knight Rook Barkwater is taken captive and forced to work for Vox Verlix nominally the Most High Academe, but no more than a prisoner in reality he stumbles across a terrible truth.

The third book of the Twig saga, part of the bestselling Edge ChroniclesTwig Verginix has gained a formidable reputation as the young sky pirate captain who dared to sail over the Edge.

He s the seventh son of a seventh son.

This bestselling picture book has had a gorgeous makeover!

When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside.

Everyone in Kinvara is conscious that time is flying past, faster and faster - to such an extent that when JJ asks his mother what she would like as a birthday present she ask for more time.

I Am Grimalkin is the ninth book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles over 3 million copies sold worldwide!

The first book of the Twig trilogy, part of the bestselling Edge ChroniclesAbandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix is brought up by a family of woodtrolls.

First the fairies took Tam's little sister, Blue.

Great-grandpa Toby is making so much NOISE!

I am the great and mighty Zeus, mortal- give me one good reason why I shouldn't smite you here and now!

When Tilly's mum goes out to work, Mrs Hardcastle from up the street pops in to look after her.

Set more than a thousand years ago in the soft green hills of Ireland, in a shifting time when enchanted creatures and the Fairy Kind still flickered in and out of the lives of men, the ancient stories of Finn MacCool and the brotherhood of the Fianna shimmer with magic.

Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life.

Once, when Megan, Bella and Alice shared a room, the Tower Room was theirs alone, remote from the rest of Egerton Hall School.

Some years have passed since Myrina reassembled the Moon Riders as a strong and potent force after the fall of Troy.

When a young Amazon woman, Myrina, becomes one of the warrior priestesses known as the Moon Riders, she is well prepared to perform their sacred dances, hunt and fight when necessary.