This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocence–an escape from the squalor of Victorian cities–that is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s.
Black Beauty is a novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindne...
The remarkable collection of stories that make up Dubliners was described by Joyce himself as a series of chapters in the moral history of his community and the arrangement of the tales reveals "a progression from childhood to maturity, broadening from private to public scope," as Harry Levin noted in his introduction to The Portable James Joyce. In fact, it is the scope of life that Joyce has limned in these stories - ranging from the opening tale, "The Sisters," in which the boy is confronted...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
by Jules Verne
This is the first in a trilogy in which a new universe has been created. A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London, where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air, and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for.
Asterix and Caesar's Laurel Bunnet (Asterix in Scots)
by Rene Goscinny
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Annotation-Friendly Edition
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Una arruga en el tiempo (Novela gráfica) / A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
by Madeleine L'Engle
La novela gráfica de Una arruga en el tiempo, un clásico de la literatura fantástica, una obra de culto que ha inspirado películas como Interestellar y series como Lost. Una de las obras clave para entender el juego entre realidad, física cuántica y filosofía. Una joya de la ciencia ficción. Una noche de tormenta, Meg, su madre y su hermano pequeño -que es un prodigio de las matemáticas- están sentados a la mesa cuando una extraña anciana llama a la puerta. Dice que ha llegado arrastrada por el...
The Silver Sword (A Puffin Book) (Puffin audiobooks)
by Ian Serraillier
The night the Nazis come to take their mother away, three children escape in a terrifying scramble across the rooftops. Alone in the chaos of Warsaw they have to learn to survive on their own. Then they meet Jan, a ragged boy with a paperknife - the silver sword - that they recognize as belonging to their lost father. The sword becomes their symbol of hope as, with Jan, they begin the hazardous journey across war-torn Europe to find their parents. Ian Serraillier's moving account of a family tor...
Legends of Charlemagne (Bulfinch's Mythology, #3) (Bibliobazaar Reproduction)
by Thomas Bulfinch
Kind of a biography, based on myths, legends and stories about "Charlemagne" - Charles the Great, king of the Franks. Read about the adventures of the fantastic Paladines and about the greatest of them all - Roland.
Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories
by Charles Perrault and A E Johnson
"Puss in Boots," "Blue Beard," "Tom Thumb," and other beloved fairy tale classics, as set down by the man who first rescued them from the oral tradition in the 17th century. Contains six color plates and 30 black-and-white illustrations.
Orphaned Heidi lives with her gruff but caring grandfather on the side of Swiss mountain, where she befriends young Peter the goat-herd. She leads an idyllic life, until she is forced to leave the mountain she has always known to go and live with a sickly girl in the city. Will Heidi ever see her grandfather again? A classic tale of a young girl's coming-of-age, of friendship, and familial love, Heidi has inspired countless dramatic versions, both on TV and in film, including Shirley Temple's fa...
The Count of Monte Cristo (Count of Monte Cristo, #2)
by Alexandre Dumas
Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.From the Hardcover edition.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Pack
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A 6-copy pack of our dyslexia-friendly, unabridged edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. This edition is presented using Barrington Stoke's specially-designed font, increased spacing and tinted paper.
Little Men (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
by Louisa May Alcott
The Secret Garden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Las crónicas de Narnia, Colección de lujo, edición tapa dura
by C. S. Lewis
Disfruta de los siete libros de la serie de fantasía clásica de C. S. Lewis, Las crónicas de Narnia, en un impresionante volumen de tapa dura. Bestias parlantes, hazañas heroicas y batallas épicas entre el bien y el mal te esperan en la clásica serie fantástica de C. S. Lewis, que lleva más de sesenta años encantando a los lectores. Esta edición intemporal presenta los siete libros sin resumir y se presentan según el orden preferido de Lewis:El sobrino del magoEl león, la bruja y el roperoEl ca...