The book is part of the series "Masters of Fairy Тales". ... This deluxe edition gathers together all the finest fairy tales of the unrivalled story-teller, Charles Perrault. The wonderful illustrations will transport young readers into a magical world where they will meet the beautiful Sleeping Beauty, the trusting Little Red Riding Hood, the resourceful Puss in Boots and Ricky of the Tuft, who is endowed with exceptional brains and wit. They will look for the owner of Cinderella’s glass slipper and Donkey Skin’s golden ring, and search for the way home with Little Thumb.
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Sam Giplin.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When young Jim Hawkins finds a mysterious map in a dead sailor’s sea trunk, it marks the start of a thrilling treasure hunt - and a very dangerous adventure. Accompanied by the local doctor and squire, he sets off on the high seas as a cabin-boy, determined to find the buried hoard. But they are not alone in their quest, a band of pirates - led by the enigmatic, one-legged Long John Silver - will stop at nothing to take back what they believe is theirs.
One of the best-loved children's stories of all time, Robert ... |
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures. Whether he is heaving clods of earth at his brother, faking a gangrenous toe, or trying to convince the world that he is dead, Tom's infectious energy and good humour shine through.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is Mark Twain's joyful and nostalgic recollection of tall tales from his own boyhood by the Mississippi. It was an instant success on first publication ... |
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When Mary Lennox is orphaned she is sent from her home in India to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire Moors. She arrives as a sour-faced, sickly and ill-tempered little girl, bewildered by her surroundings and desperately lonely. One day she discovers a way in to a secret abandoned garden and, with the help of local lad Dickon and her poorly cousin Colin, they set about restoring the garden.
"The Secret Garden" by "Frances Hodgson Burnett" is a magical tale of transformation that has enchanted both children ... |
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Geppetto, a poor woodcarver, crafts a marionette from a strange piece of talking wood and inadvertently brings the mischievous Pinocchio - a walking, talking, wooden boy - into the world. The naughty, selfish puppet heads off into the world and encounters all manner of unusual and dangerous characters on his adventures, undergoing a series of fiendishly imaginative trials - among them being swallowed by a giant dogfish and turned into a donkey - that will lead him to self-knowledge. Along the way he will be helped by a beautiful fairy, a talking cricket ... |
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery's delightful "The Little Prince" has been translated into over 180 languages and sold over 80 million copies. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition features a specially commissioned translation by Ros and ... |
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "My Family and Other Animals" is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic.
This edition features an afterword by Peter Olney, former ... |
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "All night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains."
At the age of six, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her intimidating grandfather in the Alps. Heidi takes to him immediately and soon earns his love in return. She adores her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds, but one terribly day Heidi is collected by her aunt and forced to live with a new family in town. Heartbroken by the loss of her Alpine life, she must do everything she can to return ... |
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Bestselling author of "Time travelling with a Hamster". ... He smells. He'll eat literally anything. And he's humanity's only hope.
When 12-year-old Georgie makes friends with an eccentric retired scientist, she becomes the test-subject for a thrilling new experiment: a virtual reality, 3D version of the future.
Then a deadly virus threatens to wipe out every dog in the country, and Georgie's beloved dog Mr Mash gets sick. Which is bad - but worse is still to come. As the world is thrown into chaos, Georgie embarks on a desperate quest: to save every dog on earth and all of humanity...
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Illustrated by Tony Ross.
From Multi-Million bestselling author. ... Dads come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are fat ones and thin ones, tall ones and short ones. There are young ones and old ones, clever ones and stupid ones. There are silly ones and serious ones, loud ones and quiet ones. Of course, there are good dads, and bad dads...
"I absolutely love David Walliams' books, they will become classics."
Sue Townsend, Guardian
"Dahk finally has a worthy successor."
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From the number one bestselling author David Walliams.
Illustrated by Tony Ross. ... Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when most children are fast asleep, except of course for... the Midnight Gang! That is when their adventures are just beginning...
When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself at Lord Funt Hospital, and is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter. Things go from bad to worse when he meets the wicked matron in charge of the children’s ward... But Tom is about to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. ... "Малкият принц" е една вечна философска приказка, вълнуваща и докосваща сърцето. Книга, задължителна за всички деца и възрастни. История за изкуството да живееш обичайки и сприятелявайки се. Изданието е предназначено за читатели, които са на все още начинаещо ниво в обучението си по френски език. При превода е постигната максимална близост до авторовия текст, като стремежът е лексиката максимално да се доближава до съвременната.
" Възрастните ме посъветваха да оставя настрана рисунките на змии боа отвън и отвътре, а да се интересувам най-вече от ... |
Recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time, "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is an utterly beguiling novel which tells the story of the courageous and ingenious March sisters; Jo, the independent tomboy; Beth, who is delicate and loving; pretty and kind Meg; and beautiful, precocious Amy, the baby of the family.
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