A beautiful edition of Tolkien's classic children's story. Leaving his comfortable hobbit hole Bilbo Baggins goes on a reluctant adventure to defeat a dragon, and along the way he encounters the vile, but pathetic Gollum, and his ‘Precious’ – a ring to rule them all.
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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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The Midnight Folk is a feast of imaginative storytelling, a glorious cornucopia of pirates and witches, lost treasure and talking animals. Although it was published in 1927, it evokes an older world: houses are lit by oil lamps, and travel is by horse, carriage – or broomstick.
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Moonfleet transports the reader to a world of mystery, adventure and romance: smugglers’ paths zigzagging up and down sheer cliffs; the Channel salt-breeze singing in the trees; the sturdy walls of the ruined castle on the Isle of Wight, and, most significantly, Chesil Beach and ‘the awful roar of the undertow sucking back the pebbles’.
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Newly republished, with the marvellous etchings of Dame Paula Rego that capture the magic and menace of the traditional nursery rhyme.
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The first book in the award-winning The Dark is Rising sequence, Over Sea, Under Stone is a fantastical adventure set among forces of Light and Dark. Laura Carlin illustrates, with a new preface by the author.
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Perrault's most enduringly popular fairy tales, from 'Cinderella' to 'The Sleeping Beauty', illustrated by the great Edmund Dulac.
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In these tales third-born sons seek their fortunes, lovely princesses are blown away by gusts of wind, cunning tricksters steal treasures from dragons, wicked wizards chase after their apprentices, and wise animals help their friends…
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For generations, children have thrilled to the adventures of the wooden puppet whose nose grows when he tells a lie. This Folio edition features a series of truly beautiful integrated and full-page illustrations by award-winning children’s illustrator Grahame Baker-Smith.
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Misselthwaite Manor holds two mysteries, a strange unhappy crying in the night and a walled garden with a door locked and forgotten for ten years. On the day a robin shows Mary where the key lies buried, the Magic begins
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Set in 18th-century London, this story is a million miles from the Georgian parlors and dandies of popular imagination. The eponymous hero, a street urchin pick-pocket, must survive in a grim world where if poverty and disease don't kill you, there's always the murderous criminals or the hangman.
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The ‘longest girl that was ever seen’, with her hair in a tangle, dress torn and bootlaces trailing, Katy is one of the most lovable heroines ever to leap from the pages of a book.
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The Wind in the Willows is about many things – the changing seasons, the beauty and fragility of nature, the thrill of the open road, and the creeping tide of suburbia – but it is the glorious adventures of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger that have enchanted children and their parents for over a century. A glorious edition of the children's classic, with enchanting illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk.
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Some books, such as those A. A. Milne wrote for his son Christopher Robin during the 1920s, speak as profoundly to adults as they do to children. The characters Milne created - Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger - have become eternal symbols of childhood innocence, and are as popular as ever.
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In 1900, a former travelling salesman published a book about a girl from Kansas and her adventures in a strange land. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz soon became one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Now this classic fable is published in a beautiful Folio edition with 25 illustrations, including full-page images and double-page spreads, bringing Dorothy and her companions to life for a new generation.
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