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.

Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe.But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. And as if that wasn't bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes now -- that he'd never been born!

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.

An imaginative tale of two little children meeting adventure in such places as Dogland, Outland, and Elfland.

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

Relates the adventures of a mortal boy and the fairy child, Mopsa, as they journey through Fairyland.

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. A reprint of the first children's book to show the amusing side of misconduct.

The growing-up adventures of two girls in a mid-Victorian English family.

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 fables retold from Aesop and other sources.

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

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.

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