Picture Anansi the Clever Spider

Linn, Susie

Jane Nissen Books

Picture Story Biggest Bear in the

George, Joshua

Picture Story Jellyfish Disgustin

Brendon Chase

Literature & Fiction

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A Country Child

Alison-Uttley

Winner of the Carnegie Medal In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves while he is off at war. Sighs Dinah, "I think that we are quite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be," and her sister Dorinda adds helpfully, "Very often, when we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It's difficult to tell which is which." Sure enough, the mischievous sisters soon convince a judge that minds must be changed as often as socks, stage an escape from the local zoo (thanks to a witch's potion which turns them into kangaroos), andâ€”in the company of a golden puma and silver falconâ€”set off to rescue their father from the tyrant of Bombardy. A tale of hilarity and great adventure, The Wind on the Moon is also a work of high seriousness; after all, "life without freedom," as the valiant puma makes clear, "is a poor, poor thing."

The Wind on the Moon

Eric Linklater

The Elephant War

AVERY, GILLIAN

Hobberdy Dick

Children's Books

KATHARINE M. BRIGGS

 The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea, written for children, is a fantasy, in which Davy Jones and all the drowned pirates under the sea are discovered guarding the great knots that tie latitudes and longitudes together to keep the world from splitting.

The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea

LINKLATER, ERIC

Two brothers find a country under the earth whose citizens are segregated by weight.

Fattypuffs and Thinifers

André MAUROIS

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