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A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. Lear's nonsense works are distinguished by a facility of verbal invention and a poet's delight in the sounds of words, both ...Show more
A Little Princess (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fig ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Ra ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Sterling Unabridged Classics) by Lewis Carroll
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Sterling Children's Classics
One of the most magical concoctions in children's literature, Lewis Carroll's tale follows Alice into the upside-down, inside-out world of Wonderland where she attends the tea party of the Mad Hatter and plays croquet in the court of the Queen of Hearts.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth's Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales. This collection of over forty of Andersen’s most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling and many more. It is delightfully i ...Show more
Beatrix Potter Collection #1 (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Beatrix Potter
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes: The books in Volume One: The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-WinkleThe Tale of Samuel Whiskersor, The Roly-Poly PuddingThe Tale of the Flopsy BunniesThe Tale of Ginger & PicklesThe Tale of Mrs TittlemouseThe Tale of Timmy TiptoesThe Tale of Mr TodThe Tal ...Show more
Beatrix Potter Collection #2 (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Beatrix Potter
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
All your favourite Beatrix Potter stories in two volumes: The books in Volume Two: The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester The Tale of Benjamin Bunny The Tale of Two Bad Mice The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pan The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher The Story of A Fierce Ba ...Show more
Black Beauty (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) by Anna Sewell
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth's Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Anna Sewell's Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
Five Children and It (Psammead #1) (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes...it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur...and it had hands and feet like a monkey's'. 'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When ...Show more