Pippi Långstrump

by Astrid Lindgren

Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house.

The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby

by Charles Kingsley

Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

HERE IS Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

The Phoenix and the Carpet

by Edith Nesbit

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...

The most dangerous game

by Richard Connell

Fantastic Mr Fox

by Roald Dahl

Down in the valley there were three farms.

Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

Goodnight Moon

by Margaret Wise Brown

In the great green room

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

by C. S. Lewis

THERE WAS A BOY CALLED EUSTACE CLARENCE Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

White Fang

by Jack London

DARK spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Prince Caspian

by C. S. Lewis

ONCE THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book call...

On the origin of species by means of natural selection

by Charles Darwin

WHEN on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of ...

Northern Lights

by Philip Pullman

Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.

Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by C. S. Lewis

HABIA UNA VEZ CUATRO NINOS CUYOS nombres eran Pedro, Susana, Edmundo y Lucia.

The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

How beautiful the countryside was in summer!

[William Wheeler Hubbell, authorized to apply for patents.]

by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Patents

Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.