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Folk and Fairy Tales A collection of English fairy tales compiled by Joseph Jacobs. Featuring such well-known tales as ‘Jack and the Bean Stock,’ ‘...

Eyes and No Eyes The fourth of six books in Arabella Buckley’s Eyes and No Eyes series.  This book covers bird life found in a variety of habitats....

The Burgess Bird Book for Children Peter Rabbit learns about his avian friends in this classic nature book designed to introduce children to the su...

Five Little Peppers The first book in the Five Little Peppers series.  The story introduces the five Pepper children and their widowed mother Mamsi...

Origin Stories For Children First published in 1902, Just So Stories for Little Children is a collection of origin stories by British author Rudyar...

A Child’s History of England Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall’s history of England starting from the time of the Roman Empire through World War I. The ...

The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall’s history of North America for children. Starting with the Viking exploration and brief...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the firs...

Courage and Honor Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, ...

The Bard of Avon Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare is a collection of twenty stories retold by Edith Nesbit. Each play is retold in a way that is ...

A History of Greece A collection of stories, myths, and histories about the Ancient Greeks from the earliest known inhabitants until Greece is conq...

A History of Rome A collection of stories, myths, and histories about the Romans from the earliest known inhabitants until the fall of the Western ...

For Children A classic retelling of Shakespeare’s plays intended to be more accessible to children. Mary Lamb was responsible for the retelling of ...

Robinson Crusoe The story of Robinson Crusoe and his adventures during his time at sea including shipwrecks, pirates, mutineers, and cannibals.  On...

The Adventure Continues The sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Princess Irene and Curdie are now a little older and must overthrow a set of cor...

The Jungle Book A collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling about the jungles of India. Many of the characters are animals such as Baloo the bear an...

A Romance A historical fiction novel based in England during the Middle Ages. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, it has been credited wi...

Bulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from early British history during the reign of King Arthur. Written for a general audience...

Le Tour Du Monde Rich British gentleman Phileas Fogg and his valet, Frenchman Jean Passepartout, accept a wager of £20,000 to circumnavigate the gl...

Alice In Wonderland One of the best-known and most popular English novels authored by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. T...

A Masterpiece of American Literature The story of Tom Sawyer, a young boy growing up along the Mississippi river in the fictional town of St. Peter...

Peter Pan Originally published as a play in 1904 and a novel in 1911, Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie’s most famous work.  Both the novel and play ...

Talk to the Animals Doctor Dolittle is a respected physician living in a small English Village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh.  Over the years his love f...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the thir...

Or, The Parish Boy's Progress Orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver trav...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the four...

The Autobiography of a Horse The first person memoirs from Black Beauty. Beginning with his days as a colt on an English farm with his mother to hi...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the nint...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the seve...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the sixt...

Mother Russia Arthur Ransome’s classic retelling of Russian tales. Ransome noted that “the stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tel...

A Shakespearean Comedy A ship is caught in a powerful storm and the vessel is shipwrecked on an island. The storm, it turns out, is a magical creat...

An English Classic Follow Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger on their adventures in the English countryside. These stories are for those “who keep the spi...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the twel...

The Secret Garden The story of Mary Lennox, a 10 year old girl, and her time after the death of her parents in India. Mary is sent to live with her...

Or The Mutiny of The Hispaniola A coming-of-age adventure novel narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. The book had an enormous influence ...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the fift...

Father Brown A collection of 12 short stories based on the fictional character Father Brown. A Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective, Father ...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the elev...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the tent...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the eigh...

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy Padraic Colum’s classic retelling of the Odyssey and the Iliad for children. Included are such famo...

A Shakespearean Comedy Likely Shakespeare’s first play, Valentine is leaving Verona for Milan to broaden his horizons. He asks his best friend, Pro...

A Classic Children’s Novel The story of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is adopted by Mathew and Marilla Cuthbert to help them on the...

The Father Brown Series A collection of short stories featuring the fictional detective-priest, Father Brown. Father Brown is a clever and unassumi...

The Father Brown Series Father Brown finds himself embroiled in a mysterious case when a famous atheist, Professor Adam, invites him to witness a m...

The Father Brown Series A collection of detective short stories featuring Father Brown, a Catholic priest with a keen intellect and a deep understa...