Black Beauty
Anna Sewell and Adrienne E. Gavin (ed.)
‘I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.’ Anna Sewell's famous ‘Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling ...
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Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling and Leonee Ormond (ed.)
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew ...
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The Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling and W. W. Robson (ed.)
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s philosophy of life ...
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Just So Stories: for Little Children
Rudyard Kipling and Lisa Lewis (ed.)
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. ...
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The Prisoner of Zenda (2 ed.)
Anthony Hope and Nicholas Daly (ed.)
‘If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?’ Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a ...
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Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
Robert Baden-Powell and Elleke Boehmer (ed.)
A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys (1908) is ...
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett and Peter Hunt (ed.)
‘It was the garden that did it – and Mary and Dickon and the creatures – and the Magic.’ An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a ...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
Thomas Hughes and Andrew Sanders (ed.)
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A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown’s Schooldays has long had an influence ...
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson and Peter Hunt (ed.)
There were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy.’ When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins ...
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Victorian Fairy Tales
Michael Newton (ed.)
The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative ...
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The Water-Babies
Charles Kingsley, Brian Alderson (ed.), and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.)
‘This is all a fairy tale…and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true.’ The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's stories ever ...
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame and Peter Hunt (ed.)
‘Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ’ So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights ...
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