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National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
13.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
"The book is one that horse lovers of every age cannot fail to enjoy." -- The New York Times A lovely new hardcover edition of one of the most famous horse stories ever written! The timeless tale of 14-year-old Velvet Brown and her beloved steed has entertained generations and remains a must-read for a ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot; Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)
11.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Faber Children's Classics Ser.
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
Perrault's Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Perrault
7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Translated by A.E.Johnson. Eight of the twelve tales in this book are from the master hand of Charles Perrault (1628-1703). Although Perrault enjoyed much distinction in the French literary circle of the late seventeenth century, his fame today rests upon his authorship of the traditional Tales of Mothe ...Show more
Peter Pan (Knickerbocker Classics) by J. M. Barrie
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Knickerbocker Children's Classics
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothe ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian Children's Classics) by Joan Lindsay; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES). 'Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling...' St Valentine's Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of sc ...Show more
Playing Beatie Bow by Ruth Park
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
'Now then,' thought Abigail, 'something very weird has happened to me. I'm in the last century. I don't know why, and that doesn't matter. I've got to get back.' Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past. Rediscover the magic of our countr ...Show more
Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Macmillan Children's Books Paperback Classics Ser.
This second collection of stories and poetry featuring Dan and Una and their adventures with the fairy, Puck, is a classic to treasure. Set in the surroundings of his Sussex home, Bateman's, Rudyard Kipling's sparkling storytelling perfectly captures the myth and mystery of the English countryside. Rewa ...Show more
Russian Fairy Tales by I.IA. Bilibin
29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offered the commission of a lifetime at the very start of his career. In 1899 the Department for the Production of State Documents asked this young Russian artist to illustrate a series of fairy tales, a task that ...Show more
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
Short excerpt: Without doubt she was the worst of the seven probably because she was the cleverest. Her brilliant inventive powers plunged them all into ceaseless scrapes.
Struwwelpeter in English Translation by HEINRICH HOFFMANN
18.95 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
One of the most popular and influential children's book ever written, this time-honored tale - sure to produce lots of giggles - describes the gruesome consequences that befall children who torment animals, play with matches, suck their thumbs, refuse to eat, and fidget at meals. A collector's item, wri ...Show more
Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
14.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Faber Children's Classics Ser.
Tales of Troy and Greece is the 1907 work by the famous author Andrew Lang. Lang draws on classical recounts to tell the story of the Homeric epic of the Trojan war. His book covers all the major events and characters from Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, and Agamemnon, to the Amazons, t ...Show more
Taronga (Australian Children's Classics) by Victor Kelleher
19.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
"The great dome of the sky, black, star-sprinkled, arched above him, appearing at that moment so limitless, so vast and free, that the fences and cages of Taronga were dwarfed, reduced to the point where they barely seemed to exist." Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more