When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert send to anorphanage for a boy to help them at GreenGables，their farm in Canada，they are astonishedwhen a talkative little girl steps off the train。 Anne，red-headed，pugnacious andincurably romantic，causes chaos at GreenGables and in the village。 But her wit and goodnature make her a firm favourite not only in thefictional community on Prince Edward Island,but also with generations of readers on eitherside of the Atlantic。

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 areabridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats theworld's beloved tales (and children) with the respect theydeserve--all at an incomparable price. No child is too young to appreciate the amazing deductive powers ofthe world's smartest detective. These easy-to-read Sherlock Holmesstories provide the perfect introduction to the super sleuth andhis friend and assistant, Dr. Watson. Among the intriguing tales:"A Scandal in Bohemia," Holmes's first encounter with themysterious Irene Adler; "The Red-Headed League"; "The Adventure ofthe Six Napoleons" and others.

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger, and the preposterous Mr. Toad （with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor-car）, have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. Grahame's book was later dramatised by A.A.Milne, and became a perennial Christmas favourite,as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and,above all perhaps, inspire great affection.

Summer vacation on an almost private island gives the Aldens achallenge.

Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land/Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense. For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks t

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger,and the preposterous Mr. Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall. Grahame's book was later dramatized by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial hristmas favourite, as Toad of Toad Hall. It continues to enchant and, above all, inspire great affection.

When a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz,she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City where the Wonderful Wizard of Oz will grant any wish.On the way, she meets the brainless Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. The four friends set off to seek their hearts' desires, and in a series of action-packed adventures they encounter a deadly poppy field, fierce animals, flying monkeys, a wicked witch, a good witch, and the Mighty Oz himself.

“Go down the crater of the volcano Snaefells. Follow theshadow just before the month of July. You will find your way to thecenter of the Earth. I did it.” That mysterious message, found in along-lost letter, propels a young man and his uncle on theadventure of a lifetime: to a prehistoric world below the earthwhere dinosaurs and other strange creatures still roam. JulesVerne's classic fantasy will enchant a new generation ofreaders.

0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" Jules Verne’s classicscience fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of theMuseum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below thewaves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In theprocess, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented:the submarine.

A trip in a caboose at the end of a freight train leads to anold clown and a search.

The Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an‘introduction to the study of Shakespeare’but are much more entertaining than that. All of Shakespeare's best loved plays，comic and tragic，are retold in a clear and robust style，and their literary quality has made them popular and sought-after ever since their first publication in 1807. This edition contains the delightful pen-and-ink drawings of that master of illustration. Arthur Rackham.

Tom,a poor orphan,is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep,Grimes,to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot.While engaged in this dreadful task,he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie,the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief.He runs away,and,hot and bothered,he slips into a cooling stream,falls asleep,and becomes a Water Baby. In his new life,he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures,including an engaging old lobster,other water babies,and at last reaches St Branden's lsle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonbyasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby.After a long and arduous quest to the Othe-end-of-Nowhere young Tom achieves his heart's desire.

0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" A single person—but with twopersonalities: one that’s noble and kind and another that’s pure,repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevenson’s engrossing masterpieceabout the dual nature of man—and a good doctor whose thirst forknowledge has tragic consequences—serves up all the suspense andsatisfying chills one expects from the best horror and sciencefiction.

Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the mountains, and there after drinking some liquor offered to him by a band of very strange folk, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village to find that not only is his wife dead but war and revolution have changed many things. He, on the other hand, although older is not appreciably wiser and soon slips back into his idle habits. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells of conscientious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. Orderly and strict in school, out of school his life is disorderly and his head full of fearful fantasies. He is in love with the beautiful Katrina but has a rival for her hand, a dashing young hero who, together with his prankster friends, plays on Ichabod's superstitions, notably with the story of a headless horseman who

0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%" “We said there was no homelike a raft. other places do seem so cramped up and smothery…butyou feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.” Saildown the Mississippi with Huck Finn and the runaway slave, Jim.Twain’s beloved tale, with its folksy language, creates anindelible image of antebellum America with its sleepy river towns,con men, family feuds, and a variety of colorful characters.

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me'. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the mo

One of the world's greatest storytellers weaves together an unforgettable collection of animal tales, including how the camel got its hump, how the leopard got its spots, and how even a butterfly stamping his leg can change a man's life. Initially written for his own "best beloved," Just So Stories was published in 1902. It has been a favorite for the past century and is certain to be cherished by generations to come. 作者简介： Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), English short-story writer, novelist and poet. Kipling was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). His most popular works include The Jungle Book (1894) and the Just So Stories (1902), both children's classics though they have attracted adult audiences also. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

0in 0in 0pt" Nothing’s more magical than going down therabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, inworlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turnedupside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Children willlove reading Carroll’s many humorous nonsense verses and meetingsuch unforgettable characters as the Mad Hatter, the Knave ofHearts who steals some tarts, and the grinning Cheshire Cat (in Alice in Wonderland ) and Tweedledee, Tweedledum, HumptyDumpty, and the Jabberwock (in Through the LookingGlass ).

When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she surprises everyone: first of all, she is a girl. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, had specifically asked for an orphan boy. She has bright red hair that won't manage and a mouth that won't shut. Nothing will ever be the same at Green Gables! A favorite story of generations of girls ever since it was first published in 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic story of one girl's profound effect on a small Canadian community has stayed in print for nearly one hundred years and has been made into a popular TV series and even a musical

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community。 Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Good Wives takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness.

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. Black Beauty is the classic horse story, a beautiful and touchingtale told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian London,it follows Beauty's life and changing fortunes as he moves fromowner to owner. As the horse encounters new experiences and newfriends who reveal their own histories, the story quietly paints afascinating portrait of how animals were treated during thatera.

The two American classics here together in one volume, Little Men and Jo's Boys, are worthy sequels to Little Women, one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, and its continuation, Good Wives. In Little Men, Louisa May Alcott takes up the story of the everyday dramas and exploits of the naughty but easy-going boys at Plumfield, now a boarding-school run by Professor Bhaer and his lovable madcap wife Jo, the most fiery and free-spirited of the four March sisters. Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that 'wilderness of boys' ten years later when they are making their ways in the world with varying degrees of triumph and disaster.