The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear. How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and other questions. Puck of Pook's Hill relates how Dan and Una's magical meeting with Puck, the last of the People of the Hills, leads to their adventures with Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings... And later, in Rewards and Fairies, the three meet an array of characters ranging from Iron Age warriors to 'Good Queen Bess' and Sir Francis Drake. In Kipling's rattling school yarn Stalky & Co, Stalky, M'Turk and the Beetle are a trio of scallywags with a keen desire to break the rules, their unruly activities give the stories an enduring appeal to all children - especially those who have ever wilted beneath the stern glance of a peevish schoolmaster. Kipling's wry, sometimes tongue-in-cheek st

跟随着小熊维尼的脚步，行走在绿意盎然的百亩森林中，你会陪伴着它认识很多新朋友；这个圆滚滚的小熊很馋嘴，也很善良，他与他的朋友们在森林中发生了很多有趣的故事，罗宾、小猪、跳跳虎、屹耳等角色一一登场，与维尼快乐地生活在一起。

As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is now broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves, and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes. The final battle must begin - Harry must stand and face his enemy. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON ...

Experience Oz like never before in this collection of booksten through twelve in L. Frank Baum’s classic American fairy taleseries. The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth titles of the iconic Oz series,now in one collection! In Rinkitink in Oz , Prince Inga of Pingaree must rescuehis parents and all of the subjects from his kingdom who werekidnapped by marauders form Regos and Coregos. Prince Inga, alongwith the visiting King Rinkitink and Bilbil the goat, set off on aseries of grand adventures that will lead them to the undergroundkingdom of the Nome King. Will Inga’s bravery and courage be enoughto save his parents and all of their subjects? In The Lost Princess of Oz , Ozma, the beloved ruler ofOz, has disappeared, so Dorothy, the Wizard, the Cowardly Lion, anda band of friends must search the vast land of Oz to find her. In The Tin Woodman of Oz , Tin Woodman, Woot the Wanderer,and Captain Fyter set off on a quest to find the lovely Munchkin,Nimmie Amee. Once upon a time, she and the Wo

《安琪拉的灰烬》是影响全球的成长小说杰作，荣获美国文学荣誉普利策奖。当我回首童年，我总奇怪自己竟然活了下来。当然，那是一个悲惨的童年，幸福的童年是不值得在这儿浪费口水的：家庭贫困潦倒；父亲一无所长、醉话连篇；母亲虔诚而沮丧，坐在火炉旁哀叹个不停；神父自以为是；教师恃强凌弱…… 我们在物质上*贫穷，但我们总是很快乐，有很多渴望，很多梦想，很多激情，我们感觉很富有。 “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’

Among the few indispensable, common-property books upon which Western culture can be founded ... it is hardly too much to say that these tales rank next to the Bible in importance. - W.H. Auden A wonderful collection of all 210 tales and popular legends collected by the Grimm brothers over a century ago.

Amazon.co.uk Review Poor Bilbo Baggins! An unassuming and rather plump hobbit (as most of these small, furry-footed people tend to be ), Baggins finds himself unwittingly drawn into adventure by a wizard named Gandalf and 13 dwarves bound for the Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes a stolen treasure. Before he knows what is happening, Baggins finds himself on the road to danger. Wizards, dwarves and dragons may seem the stuff of children's fairy tales, but The Hobbit is in a class of its own--light-hearted enough for younger readers, yet with a dark edge guaranteed to intrigue an older audience. In the best tradition of the archetypal hero's quest, Bilbo Baggins sets out on his fateful journey a callow, untested soul and returns--tempered by hardship, danger and loss--a better man--er, hobbit. This book is the predecessor to Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, and though that trilogy can be thoroughly enjoyed without first reading The Hobbit, much that happens in the lat

'The humour may be 50 years old, but the notion of themischievous, confident little schoolboy is timeless. ... theBritish editions will deliberately be given a touch of class, asthe volumes are brought out in cloth covers, on high-quality paper.' Junior, July 2005 'with stories this charmingly innocent, funnyand heart-warming, neither modern dark edginess nor literaryspecial effects are required.' What's On In London, July 2005'Nicholas ... is a much-needed reminder of the Entente Cordiale...a chic and sturdily childproof new English edition, translatedin ebullient vernacular by Anthea Bell ... Here is timeless,universal comedy of innocents overeating, smoking a purloinedcigar, organising a football match but forgetting to bring a ball,worrying about a school report ('A rowdy and often inattentivepupil, given to fighting his friends. Could do better'), falling inlove with a girl, better than merely pretty, who can kick a ballhard enough to break a window, playing truant and pretending toenjoy a boring

Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story tells theadventures of the amiable Mole, the dapper Water Rat and themarvellous Badger as they endeavour to keep the wayward Toad out oftrouble. Sensitively abridged and beautifully illustrated withgreat charm and detail by Inga Moore.

Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much loved drawings. However, inspired by the insatiable Victorian appetite for party games, tricks and conundrums, this eccentric and polymathical Englishman also wrote many other works of a humorous, witty, whimsical and nonsensical nature such as the mock-heroic nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark, as well as dozens of other verses, stories, acrostics and puzzles, all of which are included in this volume. Oxford scholar, Church of England Deacon, University Lecturer in Mathematics and Logic, academic author of learned theses, gifted pioneer of portrait photography, colourful writer of imaginative genius and yet a shy and pedantic man, Lewis Carroll stands pre-eminent in the pantheon of inventive literary geniuses.

Fly into the magical world of Peter Pan - hide from the crocodile, get into a skirmish with cut-throat pirates and then find out whether you really, really believe in fairies.