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  • Grimms Fairy Tales Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm For the past two centuries these delightful stories, gathered together and written down by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, have entertained and frightened children and adults alike. The lives of Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Rumplestiltskin and the Frog Prince form part of our common heritage: they stimulate the imagination and the heart, and linger at the back of our minds…
  • The Jungle Book Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: Rudyard Kipling In this stunning retelling of a phenomenal classic, honor is tested, battles of good over evil are waged, and the importance of family reigns supreme. True to Rudyard Kipling’s original story, tree branches literally draw the reader in to this tale of Mowgli the Man Cub exploring the ruins of the Lost City, riding atop thundering elephants, and facing a fierce…
  • The Arabian Nights Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: Andrew Lang These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging…
  • Aesop’s Fables for Children Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: Aesop The Aesop for ChildrenFables for ChildrenChildren’s ClassicsBy AesopOver 140 Fables for ChildrenAesop’s Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop’s name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to…
  • Pinocchio Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: Carlo Collodi Michael Morpurgo MBE is one of Britain’s best loved writers for children. He has written over 100 books and won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award and the Blue Peter Book Award.His novel War Horse has been successfully adapted as a West End and Broadway theatre hit and Steven Spielberg blockbuster film. A former Children’s Laureate, Michael is…
  • Peter Pan Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, the “boy who would not grow up,” originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie’s sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy hero was brought to the stage by Barrie in the beloved play Peter Pan, which opened in 1904 and became the…
  • Just So Stories Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: Rudyard Kipling Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child by his Indian nurses, “Just So Stories” creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people.
  • Alice in Wonderland Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: Lewis Carroll This edition contains Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in…
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: L. Frank Baum The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick,’ said the Witch; `so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you.’ A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy and her little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz,…
  • Andersens Fairy Tales Cover
    by Author: H. C. Andersen Author: H. C. Andersen Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales are like exquisite jewels, drawing from us gasps of recognition and delight. Andersen created intriguing and unique characters — a tin soldier with only one leg but a big heart, a beetle nestled deep in a horse’s mane but harboring high aspirations. Each one of us at some time, has been touched by one of…
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