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A Fortunate Life: Australian Children's Classics by A. B. Facey; John Rose (Afterword by)
$19.98 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bert Facey saw himself as an ordinary man, but his remarkable story reveals an extraordinary life lived to the full.Bert Facey was a battler, ever optimistic and hopeful despite the hardships of his lfe. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration.This edi ...Show more
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
$28.95 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
A Girl of the Limberlostby Gene Stratton-PorterA Girl of the Limberlost is considered a classic of Indiana literature.The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp - at that time, a site of heavy logging and natural oil extraction.This Bildungsroman is structured as girl-meets-boy ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop ; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by);
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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: Childrens Classics | 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
Alice in Wonderland / Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$31.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of "untranslatable" puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel shar ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Leather Bound) by Lewis Carroll
$34.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
Lewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively) have entertrained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic epitomize the w ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (Signature Classics) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
$17.99 AUD
Category: Childrens 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
Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Intermediate | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
This series offers a superb collection of th e world''s greatest children''s books and their classic illust rations in handsome, full cloth hardcover editions. '
DADDY LONG LEGS by JEAN WEBSTER
$10.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Daddy-Long-LegsJean WebsterFirst published in 1912, this young adult novel is comprised mostly of letters from orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott to her anonymous benefactor whom she names "Daddy Long Legs". The letters chronicle her departure from the orphanage through four years of college. Judy makes new f ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
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: Childrens Classics | 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