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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Kate Douglas Wiggin
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Rebecca Randall is one of seven fatherless children, but is full of fun and strange ideas. She leaves her family at Sunnybrook Farm and goes to live with her two aunts in Riverboro. There she goes to school for the first time, embarks on a madcap scheme to sell soap, nearly runs away, befriends the kind ...Show more
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving
$11.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some ...Show more
Robin Hood (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Henry Gilbert
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and t ...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.
Tales from Shakespeare by CHARLES LAMB
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2+
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb was written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, comic and tragic, are retold in a clear and robust style, and their literary quality has made them popular and ...Show more
Tales from the Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang (Editor)
$6.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
To save herself from certain death, the beautiful Scheherazade must beguile a Persian sultan with her enchanting stories. In two of her most well-known tales, Aladdin and Ali Baba's cleverness and quick-thinking save the dayand a great treasure. Andrew Lang’s masterful version of these ancient Middle E ...Show more
Taronga (Australian Children's Classics) by Victor Kelleher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Johnny Gruelle
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
'Hello, I'm Raggedy Ann. Welcome to my world. I'm going to tell you about myself and this book. Some grown-ups think I'm just another rag doll with floppy arms and legs who has been nibbled by the mice but they are wrong. When the other toys and I are left alone we get up to all sorts of games and adven ...Show more
The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
$13.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Four orphans -- Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny -- discover an abandoned boxcar and move in, embarking on a life of self-reliance and hard work. They also enter a world of freedom and adventure. When Violet falls ill, they're forced to take her to a doctor, even though they'll risk losing their indepen ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
$7.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgl ...Show more
The Locket of Dreams (Vintage Classics) by Belinda Murrell
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'She didn?t know why she felt the urge to wear the old necklace. It just seemed to have a magnetic pull on her.? When Sophie wears the heart-shaped locket, she magically travels back to 1858 to learn the truth about her ancestor. Charlotte Mackenzie and her sister, Nell, live a wonderful life on a misty ...Show more