Classics of children's literature,

Three stories popular with young people in the late ninteenth century that present the English manner and temper of the time.

The first of these period pieces is an exhortation to children to be kind to animals using fictional incidents in a human and a robin family. The second features a gentle and pious creature who, even in death, inspires those around her.

These two volumes of the author's fairy tales include "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Birthday of the Infanta," and many more.

Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop - eh, what?'