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Aesop's Fables by Aesop ; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by);
$32.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, and don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs These simple allegories -- abounding in paradoxes, ambiguities, and ironies -- embody great truths. Attributed to a legendary storyteller of ancient Greece, they speak to readers and listeners of all ages and cultur ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics) by Aesop
$29.99 AUD
Category: Myths, Fable & Fairy Tales | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics Ser.
This beautiful volume features more than 200 of Aesop's fables, selected for young readers and illustrated with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes such classics as: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Tortoise and the Hare, The City Mouse and the Country ...Show more
An Alphabet of Animals by Carton Moore Park (Artist)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Art / Books Children's Classics Ser.
This charming volume is a facsimile of a children's ABC of animals first published in 1899. Commissioned by Glasgow publisher Blackie & Son, it contains a short description and a full-page grisaille drawing for each animal, beginning with A for armadillo and ending with Z for zebra, with vignettes a ...Show more
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
$10.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
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 grow ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (Signature Classics) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
$17.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Children's Signature Classics Ser.
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will." "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." "Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world." Anne of Gre ...Show more
Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
$10.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
In this fifth book of the Anne of Green Gables series, our red-haired heroine finally marries her childhood sweetheart and true love, Gilbert Blythe. After a ceremony in the sunshine of the old orchard at Green Gables, surrounded by the loving faces of long-familiar friends, the young doctor and his bri ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books Paper Back | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Great Expectations (Signature Classics) by Charles Dickens
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Children's Signature Classics Ser.
Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, Pip is haunted by figures from his past--the esc ...Show more
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
$29.99 AUD
Category: Myths, Fable & Fairy Tales | Series: Children's Signature Classics Ser.
For most children, reading the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm is an essential experience when growing up. Grimm's Fairy Tales collects some of the best-known fairy and folk tales set down by the Brothers Grimm, including "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Little Red Riding Hood," ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
$17.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Children's Signature Classics Ser.
Age range 14+The imaginative satire by Jonathan Swift is now available in an unabridged paperback edition for today’s young readers. Lemuel Gulliver is a ship’s surgeon whose journeys go astray after a shipwreck on the high seas. He encounters a race of miniature people known as Lilliputians; giant Brob ...Show more
Heidi (Signature Classics) by Johanna Spyri
$17.99 AUD
Category: 8-12 Fiction | Series: Children's Signature Classics Ser.
Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the mountains and is determined to return to the happiness of life with ...Show more
Looking for Crabs by Bruce Whatley
$14.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books Paper Back | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A family on holiday at the beach go looking for crabs in rock pools, under little rocks at the bottom of the pools, under really big rocks, or looking for hermit crabs living in little shells. They go away thinking perhaps there are no crabs at that beach. The delightful illustrations accompanying the t ...Show more