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Heidi

de Johanna Spyri; Ilustração: William Sharp

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 When Heidi, a five-year-old orphan, is dumped on her reclusive grandfather who lives on a remote mountainside above a Swiss village, he is none too pleased by her arrival.
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Tales Of Mystery And Imagination

de Edgar Allan Poe

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 This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction).
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The Eagle Of The Ninth

de Rosemary Sutcliff; Ilustração: C. Walter Hodges e C.Walter Hodges

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 Around the year 117 AD, the Ninth Legion, stationed at Eburacum - modern day York - marched north to suppress a rebellion of the Caledonian tribes, and was never heard of again. During the 1860s, a wingless Roman Eagle was discovered during excavations at the village of Silchester in Hampshire, puzzling archaeologists and scholars alike.
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The Poppy Seed Cakes

de Margery Clark

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 Auntie Katusha has just come from the Old Country, bringing poppy seeds to make cakes for a mischievous four-year-old boy named Andrewshek. A little neighbour, Erminka, who wears red boots which are too big for her, joins Andrewshek for a series of adventures with talking animals, including a greedy goose who steals the cakes;
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The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

de Rudolf Erich Raspe

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 Features Baron Munchausen's absurd adventures. This book tells how he turned a wolf inside out in Russia, rode on a Turkish cannon ball, danced a hornpipe in the stomach of large fish which had swallowed him alive, mended his horse which had been severed in two by a portcullis, and lent his friend General Elliot a hand at the siege of Gibraltar.
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Little Men - Life At Plumfield With Jo'S Boys

de Louisa May Alcott; Ilustração: Frank Merrill

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 Just two years after the extraordinarily successful publication of LITTLE WOMEN and GOOD WIVES, Louisa Alcott's brother-in-law died, leaving two sons.
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Ride A Cock Horse And Other Rhymes And Stories

de Randolph Caldecott

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 'The very essence of all illustration for children's books' said The Times on Christmas Eve, 1878, shortly after the publication of Caldecott's first two picture books, or Toy Books as they were called, John Gilpin and The House that Jack Built.
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Little Red Riding Hood

de Charles Perrault; Ilustração: W. Heath Robinson e W.Heath Robinson

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 This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous fairy stories of all time - 'Cinderella', 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Puss in Boots', 'Blue Beard' and of couse the eponymous 'Little Red Riding Hood'.
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The Light In The Forest

de Conrad Richter; Ilustração: Warren Chappell

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 But when the tribe signs a treaty that requires them to return their white captives, 15-year-old True Son is returned against his will to the family he had long forgotten, and to a life that he no longer understands or desires.
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At The Back Of The North Wind

de George MacDonald; Ilustração: Arthur Hughes

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 With 13 children of his own clamouring for bedtime stories it isn't surprising that author George MacDonald discovered he had a gift for composing fairy tales.
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Fables

de Jean de La Fontaine; Ilustração: R. De La Neziere e R.De La Neziere

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 Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. de La NeziÃ¨re which which charmingly capture La Fontaineâ€™s unforgettable cast of animal personalities.
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The Everyman Book Of Nonsense Verse

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 Wonderful collection of nonsense verse, from Chesterton to Dahl, Lear to Carroll. With beautitul, original illustrations, both full colour and black & white.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel

de Baroness Orczy

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 The exotically named Baroness Orczy was the daughter of a Hungarian aristocrat who came to London at the age of fifteen. Everyman's Library Children's Classics publishes the novel in a new and up-to-date edition to tie in with the BBC production to be screened this Christmas.
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Russian Fairy Tales

de Gillian Avery; Ilustração: I.Ia. Bilibin

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 The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offered the commission of a lifetime at the very start of his career.

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

de Frances Hodgson Burnett; Ilustração: C. E. Brock, C.E. Brock e Reginald Birch

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 Originally published as a serial in the children's monthly magazine ST NICHOLAS, LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY was Frances Hodgson Burnett's first children's novel and on its publication in book form in October 1866 it became at once an astonishing success.
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The Happy Prince And Other Tales

de Oscar Wilde; Ilustração: Charles Robinson

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 Since then the stories have been constantly reprinted and, despite the author's disclaimer, children have made the tales their own, a particular favourite being 'The Selfish Giant' - the highly moral story of the giant who banished children from his garden, so that spring never came.
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The Pied Piper Of Hamelin

de Robert Browning; Ilustração: Kate Greenaway e Kate Greenaway

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 First published in 1842, Robert Browning's poetic version of the legend about the lost children of Hamelin is sub-titled 'A Child's Story' and was originally intended only for the private enjoyment of Willie Macready, young son of the famous actor.
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Mother Goose'S Nursery Rhymes

de Walter Jerrold; Ilustração: Charles Robinson

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 Every child's bookshelf should start with a collection of nursery rhymes so that these fantastic and nonsensical verses (some so old their meaning is long forgotten) are among the first magical words to sound in a child's ear.
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The Sleeping Beauty

de C S Evans; Ilustração: Arthur Rackham

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 This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of the spring revival of the earth after a long winter.
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Robinson Crusoe - His Life And Strange Surprising Adventures

de Daniel Defoe; Ilustração: Et Al , Etc. e W.J. Linton

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 Defoe's most celebrated story of Crusoe's shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his soliatry life on a desert island and his rescue of Man Friday has been abridged and retold many times since its publication (in two volumes) in 1719.
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The Railway Children

de Edith Nesbit; Ilustração: C. E. Brock e C.E. Brock

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 Roberta is the eldest daughter of a man unjustly sent to prison, who shows great courage, and who is ultimately reunited with her father when he is vindicated and restored to his family. This book spawned the TV film starring Jenny Agutter as Roberta, and Bernard Cribbins as the railway porter.
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Cinderella

de C S Evans; Ilustração: Arthur Rackham

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 This edition of the famous fairytale was first published in 1919, and includes the pumpkin coach and mice horse, the rat coachman, lizard footmen and the glass slipper. It is a full-length version of the story, and is illustrated with Arthur Rackham's silhouette drawings.
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Aladdin - And Other Tales From The Arabian Nights

de W Heath Robinson; Ilustração: W. Heath Robinson e W.Heath Robinson

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 From the Eastern folk tales that make up the vast collection known as THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS certain stories - of Aladdin, Sindbad and Ali Baba - have become everlasting favourites with children and a magical ingredient of Christmas pantomine.
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King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table

de Roger Lancelyn Green; Ilustração: Aubrey Beardsley

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 The legends of King Arthur - the most revered hero of British Mythology - have been retold many times, but Roger Lancelyn Green's version has become a classic since its first publication in 1953.
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