'The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick' When a tornado crashes through Kansas City, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked far away, over the rainbow, to a strange land called Oz.
The daddy of all vampires, the Count who began it all He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath. Yet even Co
Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America – an honest account of teenage life. But as well as discovering new friends, dating and going to parties, th
'I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth!' When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss mountains with her bad-tempered old Grandfather, everyone in the village feels sorry
'Bah! Humbug!' Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. An
"I love E. Nesbit -- I think she is great and I identify with the way that she writes. Her children are very real children and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day." --JK Rowling 'Don't you kn
‘How could you imagine, silly child, that this toy, which is made of cloth and wood, could possibly be alive?’ The nutcracker doll that mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer gives to little Marie for Chri
A forgotten classic brought back into print for the first time in decades - the missing literary sister to Anne of Green Gables and Tracy Beaker, a tough and spirited girl's adventures growing up in a
A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGOIf a little fellow comes along, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, and if he never answers questions, then you will know who he is.He is the Little Prince, the m
'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He's a Fattypuff and you're a Thinifer. There's no doubt about it!' Edmund is a little on the plump side and his brother Terry is a bit of a rake. When they discover the Co
'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?' Charlotte Makepeace’s first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and
‘On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see’ Herein lie the problems: a stolen jewel, the inexplicable death of a young woman, the disappe
‘Many years ago – when our grandfathers were little children – there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle’Dr Dolittle lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his friends Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, G
'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home, home to his own beloved master...’ The Hunter children must go abroad for the summer, so reluctantly leave their three pets
When Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. But that's before they stumble upon a mysterious c
'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it' When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. S
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school an
A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSEIf a little fellow comes along, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, and if he never answers questions, then you will know who he is.He is the
‘We always allow one pillow-fight Saturday night’ Did you ever wonder what happened to Jo March from Little Women? She grew up, of course, and followed her dream to become a writer. In addition, she o
Matthias is just one little mouse but he knows it'll take more than stones and mouse-sized arrows to keep the rats at bay. Enlisting the help of a military hare, wild sparrows and argumentative stoats
