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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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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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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