A few English months and many Narnian years separate this follow-up to THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, the previous installment in the classic children's fantasy series the Chronicles of Narnia. The much-reformed Eustace Scrubb and a ...

Dr. Frankenstein learns the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. To test his theories, he collects bones from the charnel-houses to construct a 'human' being, and then gives it life. The creature, endowed with supernatural si...

Who needs a ladder when you've got a giraffe with an extending neck? The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company certainly doesn't. They don't need a pail, either, because they have a pelican with a bucket-sized beak. With a monkey to d...

One of the most highly respected fantasy novels ever written, THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE can be seen as both an exciting children’s adventure story and an allegory about faith. The story begins when the Pevensie sibli...

In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, Daniel bar Jamin is fired by only one passion: to avenge his father's death by crucifixion by driving the Roman legions from his land of Israel. He joins an outlaw band and leads a dangerous life o...

First published in 1877, “Black Beauty” is Anna Sewell’s classic tale of a horse living in 19th century England. Having been injured in early childhood, Anna Sewell would have difficulty walking for most of her life. As such she...

"A Garland for Girls" is a 1893 collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, originally written for her own amusement. Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American short story writer, novelist, and poet most famous...

This sequel to Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women follows the adventurous life of the naughty but soft-hearted boys of a boarding school at Plumfield.

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of the evergreen classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. With their father away in the American Civil War, the March sisters are facing a lean Christmas with their mother. As the years go by...

Timeless Classics--designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classic novels will grab a student's attention from the first page. Audiobook for each title is paced for student...

Blessed with--or doomed to--eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tu...

After her Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone to a strange land, young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, join the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and cowardly Lion on an unforgettable journey to the Emerald City, where lives the allpowerful...

Dorothy and her little dog Toto befriend the Tinman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion as they travel down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City. Maureen Lipman cackles splendidly as the Wicked Witch of the West in this acclaim...

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. In this, the third book, Tolly and his grandmoth...

Join Clifford in this brand-new storybook as he spends the day with Emily Elizabeth in kindergarten!Emily Elizabeth is starting Kindergarten and she's a little nervous. Good thing that the teacher sent a note home that says each child...

Book by Charlotte Bronte

Written by British-born author Frances Hodgson Burnett and first published in 1905, A Little Princess tells the story of young Sara Crewe, privileged daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant. All the other girls at Miss Minchin's school...

Young Sara Crewe grew up in a well-to-do household, but she suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at M...

When Sara Crewe, the seven year-old daughter of a wealthy father, arrives at her new school in London from India, she is nicknamed the Little Princess by her classmates. She seems to have all the love and fine things she could wish fo...

Following Sterling\'s spectacularly successful launch of its children\'s classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series:Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts...

Mary, a lonely orphaned girl sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she is frightened by this gloomy place until she meets a local boy, Dickon, who's earned the trust of the moor's wild animals, the i...

KATY AND THE BIG SNOW BURTON

Originally published in the mid-1800s, Lewis Carroll's masterpiece Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, have delighted children and adults alike for well over one hundred years. Alice's strange and wonderful ...

Nothing's more magical than going down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, in worlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turned upside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Childr...

Lewis Carroll published "Alice's Adventures in Wonder­land" in 1865 and "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" in 1872. In the entry in his diary for 15 February 1881 he records: "I wrote to M...

The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this...

Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles (england)

Six of Charles Dicken's greatest novels specially retold for children, with sumptuous illustrations.

Knight's Castle

When wishing for magic, it's hard not to wish for too much.     If Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha had stopped to think—oh, if they had only stopped to think!—they would have ordered magic by the ...