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Children’s Classics Collection
By various authors
£40.94 £20.47
Special collection of six beautifully illustrated classic tales for children, only £29.99, worth £40.94. A must-have for every child’s bookcase.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
By Jean Webster
£6.99
BUY >One of the classics of American children’s literature, Daddy-Long-Legs tells the tale of Judy Abbott – an ebullient orphan beginning a college degree with the aim of becoming a writer – through her letters to the anonymous patron who is paying for her education. Judy is informed that she must write…
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Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad
By Johanna Spyri
£7.99 £6.39
Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother’s sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, however, her aunt is forced to entrust her young charge into the care of her grandfather, the reclusive Alp-Uncle who lives in the mountains without any interaction…
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Tales from Shakespeare
By Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
£9.99 £7.99
In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare’s plays for children. While making sure that the pieces were accessible for a younger audience, they took care to stay faithful to the language and vocabulary of the Bard as much as possible. Rang…
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The Phoenix and the Carpet
By E. Nesbit
£7.99
BUY >When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fireworks, their parents replace it with a second-hand one. Upon unfurling it, the children find an egg inside, and, when one of them accidentally drops it into the fire, it hatches into a magical golden phoe…
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The Silver Skates
By Mary Mapes Dodge
£7.99
BUY >As their father is sick, Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel must work to support their family. Despite this life of poverty, they long to take part in the annual ice-skating races on the frozen canal, where the victors win magnificent silver skates. But how can they hope to enter the races –…
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What Katy Did
By Susan Coolidge
£6.99 £5.59
Katy, a twelve-year-old gangly tomboy, dreams of blossoming into a sophisticated young woman, capable of grand deeds and adventures. She is however prone to mischief, and leads her six siblings into various scrapes, much to the annoyance of her kindly father and domineering aunt. Her life is turned…
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum
£5.99 £4.79
When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz. Upon being told that the only way back is to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, home to the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy embarks on an extraordinary but perilous ques…
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The Wind in the Willows
By Kenneth Grahame
£6.99 £5.59
Depicting the adventures of Rat, Mole, Badger and the pretentious Mr Toad, The Wind in the Willows sees these four animals getting into all sorts of trouble as they wander along the river, through the Wild Wood and around the grand Toad Hall. Adapted for the stage by A.A. Milne as Toad of Toad Hall,…
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The Selfish Giant and Other Stories
By Oscar Wilde
£6.99 £5.59
When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren and stuck in perpetual winter. It takes a wonderful event and the heart of a young boy for him to realize the error of his ways. A classic tale for children, ‘The Selfish Gi…
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The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
£7.99 £6.39
After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a lonely and neglected life, with nothing to do apart from exploring her surroundings. One day she discovers a walled garden which has been locked up, and becomes d…
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The Secret Garden – Signed by the Illustrator
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
£7.99 £6.39
After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a lonely and neglected life, with nothing to do apart from exploring her surroundings. One day she discovers a walled garden which has been locked up, and becomes d…
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