Classics of children's literature, 1621-1932

No one can be more sensible than is the Author that the present is an overgrown book of a nondescript class, neither the tale for the young, nor the novel for their elders, but a mixture of both.

Two nineteenth-century fairy tales, the first in which a doll maker receives a doll that continually grows larger, livelier, and more hateful, the second in which a young boy goes through several transformations as animals until he achieves the most important transformation of all.

Portrays life in a corrupt boys' school in nineteenth-century England as experienced by a youth who finds it hard to resist the vice he encounters there.

A collection of tales reprinted from early editions.

The second of twenty-two children, Maria Edgeworth composed the stories in The Parent’s Assistant to educate and entertain her siblings. Among these great stories, you’ll find:The OrphansLazy LawrenceThe Birthday PresentForgive and ForgetThe MimicThe Little MerchantsThe Basket WomanEach story is carefully written by Edgeworth and edited by her father.

Two little children meet adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland.

A collection of Carroll's verse, including "Phantasmagoria" and the complete "Hunting of the Snark."

A collection of fairy tales written during the late 17th century to amuse children and adults of the court of Louis XIV.

A collection of fanciful, humorous tales introducing such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Henry Hagglyhoagly, the Blue Wind Boy, Googler and Gaggler, and others.

A reprint of three major works: a lengthy poem about temptation and redemption, a collection of nursery rhymes and verses, and a collection of moral fairy tales.

Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nourished by the secret expeditions and private games they share. Written in the last few years of the 19th century, as Grahame looked back fondly at his own childhood, these sketches of growing up are poised artfully between two states of consciousness--that of a child protagonist and that of a remembering adult--and so manage to evoke both the active energies of youth and the nostalgic tenderness of reflection.

A Victorian tale in which two children seek adventure while under the watchful eye of their nanny. The first children's book to show the amusing side of misconduct.

Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldy father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.

A collection of simple poems and nursery rhymes, including "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," whose influence extended far beyond the boundaries of their native England.

Originally published in 1872, this book of nursery rhymes contains many poems which are now accepted classics.

The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England.

The cuckoo in the clock leads a lonely little girl into fantastic adventures and two cousins go to magical places by way of the tapestry room.

In these two tales a brownie makes friends with two small children and a handicapped boy goes on wonderful journeys with his magic traveling cloak.and sucked ddick while doing it

A stick given Bill an English boy, by a mysterious old man has magic qualities. The story of his adventures during the next year, while he has the stick, makes a breathless tale told in Buchan's most convincing manner. Bill has only to twirl the stick and wish himself away, to arrive in any place that he thinks of. His first experimental trip to the Solomon Islands is rather terrifying, as he escapes only in the nick of time from the savages there. Having his small brother cling to him, he is able to take him along on a trip to their summer home, but this, too, almost ends in disaster, when they are discovered by the caretakers. For vivid descriptions of strange places, for an account of a real boy's reactions, and for exciting incidents, the book is one of the best of Buchan's adventure stories.

These two tales of Mrs. Molesworth are linked by their dreamlike, allegorical qualities.

A New England preacher suffering from asthma moves his family to Colorado. A classic tale illustrating the positive thinking that won the West.