Children's Fiction & Fairy Tales

Return to these classics of children's literature yourself or collect them for someone you love.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Tumbling headlong down a rabbit-hole, Alice enters the magical underground kingdom of Wonderland. These classic stories remain a childhood favourite. Counts as one volume.

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The Arabian Nights

This edition contains nine of the most famous of the 'Tales from the One Thousand and One Nights', originally told by Scheherezade to her murderous husband - to keep herself alive she would always stop at a moment of cliff-hanging excitement.

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Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

One of the most beloved children's classics of all time tells the story of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a kind spider, saved one special pig.

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The Eagle of the Ninth

Rosemary Sutcliff

In AD 119 four thousand soldiers of the Roman Ninth Legion march into the wilds of Northern Britain to quell a Caledonian uprising. They are never seen again. The Eagle of the Ninth is one of the best - and best-loved - of Sutcliff's historical novels.

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The Silver Branch

Rosemary Sutcliff

The thrilling sequel to The Eagle of the Ninth. Carausias, Emperor of Roman Britain, has been murdered. Inspired by his vision, soldier cousins Justin and Flavius join a tattered band of outlaws and revive the Lost Legion of the Ninth to resist the usurper Allectus.

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Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

This Folio edition, a facsimile of the British edition of 1909, contains sixty of The Brothers Grimm most famous tales, including 'Snow White', Hansel and Gretel', 'Red Riding Hood' and 'The Sleeping Beauty'.

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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen's 17 most famous tales, including 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Snow Queen' and 'The Ugly Duckling'.

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The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins is a reasonably typical hobbit: fond of sleeping, eating, drinking, parties and presents. Then adventure claims him in the shape of the wizard Gandalf and a party of dwarves. A beautiful edition of Tolkien's classic children's story.

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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

Cassandra Mortmain, seventeen years old and poised 'between childhood and adultery', is already a deadly observer of human behaviour.

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Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling

Originally told as bedtime stories for Kipling's daughter Josephine, Just So Stories remains a classic of children's literature - simply and beautifully written, with an entirely believable, far from cosy vision of the joy, wonder and dangers of the natural world.

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Perrault's Fairy Tales

Charles Perrault

Perrault's most enduringly popular fairy tales, from 'Cinderella' to 'The Sleeping Beauty', illustrated by the great Edmund Dulac.

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

In this ultimate story of shipwreck and survival, Defoe describes Robinson Crusoe's trials and ingenious solutions in such convincing detail that we believe them to be real.

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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

By day Billy Bones stalks the cliffs over Bristol, surveying the horizon with a brass telescope; by night he haunts the 'Admiral Benbow' inn, singing drunken shanties and telling tales of buccaneering on the Spanish Main.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Tomboy Scout and her older brother Jem tell thrilling stories about local bogeyman, Boo Radley, but when their father defends a black man accused of raping a white girl, they discover that 1930s Alabama contains things far more terrifying than Boo.

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The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

A glorious edition of the children's classic, with enchanting illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk.

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