Do you like to be scared? Ellen had just fallen asleep when she heard a strangevoice. "Ellen," it whispered, "I am coming up the stairs." Ellen was frightened and called her parents, but they didn't hearher, and they didn't come... Welcome to the frightening world of Scary Stories, a collectionof folklorist Alvin Schwartz's most alarming tales of horror, darkrevenge, and supernatural events of all time, with spine-tinglingillustrations by renowned artist Brett Helquist.
0in 0in 0pt" Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift’sunforgettable satire takes readers into worlds formerly unimagined.Visit four strange and remarkable lands: Lilliput, where Gulliverseems a giant among a race of tiny people; Brobdingnag, theopposite, where the natives are giants and Gulliver puny; theruined yet magical country of Laputa; and the home of theHouyhnhnms, gentle horses far superior to the ugly humanoid Yahooswho share their universe.
0in 0in 0pt" “To help mother”: that was the goal of eachand every one of the five Pepper children. Yet even as “Mamsie”struggles hard to feed and educate her brood, she still manages tofill the house with joy. The adventures of this poor but lovingfamily—Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and the adored youngest,Phronsie—have charmed young readers for more than a century.overflowing with warmth, suspense, and many delightful surprises,this classic remains as compelling as ever.
Floating down a lazy river, Benny finds a blackmail scheme in progress.
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0in 0in 0pt" No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete textof Macbeth on the left-hand page, side-by-side with aneasy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No FearShakespeare contains The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everydaylanguage A complete list of characters with de*ions Plenty of helpful commentary
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses.
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of itschildren's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes adazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; thequality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's belovedtales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all at anincomparable price. "Tom Sawyer liked adventures, which means he was always gettingin trouble." Searching for treasure, witnessing a murder, gettingcaught in a bat cave, tricking others into doing his work, runningaway with Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyer's antics and mischief-makingare sheer, child-pleasing delight. Every boy and girl shouldexperience the joy and fun of this classic tale.
