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By L. M. Montgomery. 1926
The fifth novel about Anne Shirley, the red-haired girl from Green Gables.Life seems perfect to Anne Shirley, about to marry…
her childhood friend Gilbert Blythe and set up home with him in her 'house of dreams' on the shores of Four Winds Harbor. There are new neighbours to meet and fresh problems to solve. But then tragedy strikes and there's huge heartache for the young couple which takes all of their courage and love to overcome.By L. M. Montgomery. 2009
Anne of the Island is the third heartwarming book about red-haired orphan Anne Shirley.As her childhood friends get married and…
move away, Anne too leaves Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport. Although Priscilla Grant and Gilbert Blythe are there, too, she feels lonely and out of place. But Anne soon makes new friends, one of whom is rich, handsome Roy Gardner, whose attentions to Anne make Gilbert very jealous...The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more..The Puffin Classics relaunch includes:A Little PrincessAlice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures Through the Looking GlassAnne of Green Gables seriesBlack BeautyHans Andersen's Fairy TalesHeidiJourney to the Centre of the EarthLittle WomenPeter PanTales of the Greek HeroesThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of King ArthurThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Call of the WildThe Jungle BookThe OdysseyThe Secret GardenThe Wind in the WillowsThe Wizard of OzTreasure IslandBy L. M. Montgomery. 2013
‘It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?’My dislikes:…
Being an orphan, having red hair, being called ‘carrots’ by Gilbert Blythe.My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my bosom-friend Diana, dresses with puff sleeves.My regrets: Dying my hair green. Smashing a slate over Gilbert Blythe’s head.My dream: To tame my temper. To be good (this is an uphill struggle). To grow up to have auburn hair!Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out about the real Green Gables, the plucky author and more!Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from Peter Pan and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.By L. M. Montgomery. 2009
The second story in the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables series.Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to…
begin a new life teaching in her old school. She's as feisty as ever and is fiercely determined to inspire young hearts with her own ambitions. But some of her pupils are as boisterous and high-spirited as Anne, and so life in her Avonlea classroom becomes a lesson in discovery and adventure . . .By L. M. Montgomery. 2013
You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between…
being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on my toes by the new twins, Dora and Davy, life at Green Gables is just as eventful as ever.I do try to be a little more grown-up now that I'm a school teacher. The other day I asked the class, 'If you had three candies in one hand and two in the other, how many would you have altogether?' One of my pupil's piped up, 'A mouthful.' Could you have kept a straight face?!Includes exclusive material: In ‘The Backstory’ you can find out about going to school in Avonlea and learn all about the real Green Gables Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.By Lewis Carroll. 2008
You never know where you'll find yourself in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll!Join Alice in Wonderland, where nothing…
is quite as it seems.On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute . . .With a wonderfully inspiring introduction by Chris Riddell, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the twelve brilliant classic stories relaunched with a lovely new cover. ***PLUS A behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more...***Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-98), grew up in Cheshire in the village of Daresbury, the son of a parish priest. He was a brilliant mathematician, a skilled photographer and a meticulous letter and diary writer. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church in Oxford, was published in 1865, followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1867. He wrote numerous stories and poems for children including the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark and fairy stories Sylvie and Bruno.By Lewis Carroll. 2012
CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICEOh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting!Would you be surprised to see a white…
rabbit take a watch out of his waistcoat pocket? It certainly seems a remarkable sight to Alice and, full of curiosity, she follows him down a rabbit-hole into a very strange world. She meets a disappearing cat, plays croquet with a bad-tempered Queen, joins a mad Hatter's tea party and becomes entangled in the case of some missing tarts. In Wonderland nothing but out-of-the-way things happen...Includes Through the Looking Glass.BACKSTORY: Learn about the author and what inspired him to create Wonderland, and try writing some nonsense verse!By N. J. Dawood. 1978
On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful…
night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret and run away to be pirates and search for hidden treasure. But when Tom gets trapped in a cave with the murderer, can he escape unharmed?Richard Peck is an American novelist known for his young adult books. He was awarded American's highly prestigious Newbery Medal in 2001 for his novel A Year Down Yonder.By Mark Twain. 2012
'It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used…
to lay on our backs and look up at them'Huck Finn spits, swears, smokes a pipe and never goes to school. With his too-big clothes and battered straw hat, Huck is in need of 'civilising', and the Widow Douglas is determined to take him in hand. And wouldn't you know, Huck's no-good Pap is also after him and he locks Huck up in his cabin in the woods. But Huck won't stand too much of this, and after a daring escape, he takes off down the Mississppi on a raft with an runaway slave called Jim. But plenty of dangers wait for them along the river - will they survive and win their freedom?BACKSTORY: Discover how to write secret messages in code, and learn about the extraordinary Mark Twain.By Norman Hunter. 2008
'It¹s brilliant that a book written in 1933 can still make a modern kid laugh like a drain' CHARLIE HIGSON…
Still one of the immortals of children's literature - Professor Branestawm's continues to amuse generations of young readers. The wonderfully nutty, fabulously entertaining mishaps of Professor Branestawm. He's madly sane and cleverly dotty. Professor Branestawm is the most absent-minded inventor you'll ever meet and no matter how hard he tries his brilliant ideas never seem to keep him out of crazy scrapes.By Norman Hunter. 2013
Rediscover Professor Branestawm this Christmas – soon to become a brand new drama on BBC ONE written by Charlie Higson…
and starring Harry Hill‘Once you started anything in Professor Branestawm’s house you never knew when it might finish or even if it ever would’Poor Mrs Flittersnoop! It’s not easy being Professor Branestawm’s housekeeper. People may say he’s a genius, but all his inventions always make life more complicated, alarming and extraordinary than it was before. An innocent bottle of old cough mixture turns out to be an elixir that makes all the waste paper in the bin come to life, the burglar-catcher and the pancake-maker operate just a little too efficiently, and about the spring-cleaning machine, the less said the better. You could write a book about it, but nobody would believe it.Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out about accidental inventions that changed our lives and try a few experiments of your own! Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.By Kenneth Grahame. 2013
This beautiful Ladybird Classic ebook edition of Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is a perfect first illustrated introduction…
to the classic story for younger readers.It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Mr Toad's scrapes and adventures and detailed descriptions of life by the river for all the animals. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, Black Beauty, Treasure Island, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, The Three Musketeers, The Jungle Book and Heidi.By Eleanor Farjeon. 1928
AAnthony grew up in the loveliest place in the world - his father called it the Eye of the Earth.…
But to Anthony, the 'eye of the earth' was the old mill-pond near his home – a place of mystery and enchantment . Anthony's childhood was full of happy moments, and sometimes strange ones, for he had been touched with magic as soon as he was born . . . A wonderful and timeless collection of stories, beautifully illustrated by renowned artist, Edward Ardizzone.By Robert Louis Stevenson. 2013
This beautiful Ladybird Classic ebook edition of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is a perfect first illustrated introduction to…
the classic pirate adventure story for younger readers.It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key events and characters of the Treasure Island story, including Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and Ben Gunn, deadly pirate battles, ship-bound adventures and the hunt for treasure! Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, Gulliver's Travels, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Heidi, The Jungle Book, The Three Musketeers and The Wind in the Willows.By Alexandre Dumas. 2013
This beautiful Ladybird Classic ebook edition of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is a perfect first illustrated introduction to…
the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including D'Artagnan's adventures with the Musketeers, his efforts to help the Queen, and fascinating details about life in France. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, Black Beauty, Treasure Island, A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Heidi, The Jungle Book and The Wind in the Willows.By Frances Hodgson Burnett. 2013
This beautiful Ladybird Classic ebook edition of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a perfect first illustrated introduction…
to the classic story for younger readers.It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story, including the mysterious, locked secret garden. Detailed illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, Gulliver's Travels, Oliver Twist, Peter Pan, Heidi, The Wind in the Willow, The Three Musketeers, The Jungle Books, A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island.By E. Nesbit. 2014
This Ladybird Classic is an abridged retelling of the classic story of The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit, making it…
perfect for introducing the story to younger children, or for newly confident readers to tackle alone.Beautiful new illustrations throughout bring the magic of this classic story to a new generation of children.By Rudyard Kipling. 2013
'Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was'Have you ever enquired why the elephant…
has such an enormously elongated nose? Are you confused by a cat's contrary nature? Have you ruminated on the wrinkles of a rhinocerous? Or speculated on a leopard's spots? Rudyard Kipling wondered about all these things too, and in this marvellous collection of stories he imagines how the animals became 'just so'.Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out why Just So Stories is one of Philip Pullman’s favourite books and discover wacky facts about wild animals!Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.By J. M. Barrie. 2012
This beautiful Ladybird Classic ebook edition of Peter Pan by Sir J. M. Barrie is a perfect first illustrated introduction…
to the classic Neverland story for younger readers.It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Peter's ongoing feud with Captain Hook, his adventures with Wendy, John and Michael as well as the friendship between the Lost Boys. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, Gulliver's Travels, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island.