E Nesbit
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1907. From the author's preface, "Shakespeare wrote for grown-up people, for men and women, and in words that little folks cannot understand. Hence this volume. To reproduce the entertaining stories contained in the plays of Shakespeare, in a form so simple that children can understand and enjoy them, was the object had in view by the author of these Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare...the editor has...added a collection...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Enchanted Castle is a novel for young readers by Edith Nesbit, who was writing in the late Victorian and early Edwardian era in Britain. As in her other children’s books, it begins in the everyday world but quickly brings in the fantastical and magical. A large part of the delight of Nesbit’s books is that her children behave in quite ordinary ways, getting into scrapes, getting dirty and their clothes torn, making decisions which
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Series
Language
English
Description
After the presumed death of their long-absent father, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden and moves with his sister Elfrida into the decrepit family castle where they find an ancient spell that conjures up the magical Mouldiwarp and, with his help, set off on a journey through time in search of the lost Arden treasure.
Author
Publisher
T. Fisher Unwin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
During her prolific career, popular English children's writer Edith Nesbit wrote or collaborated on over sixty books of fiction for children in her illustrious literary career. In "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" first published as "The Children's Shakespeare" in 1897, she turns her attention to a series of interpretations of several of William Shakespeare's best-known comedies and dramas. These retellings of many of Shakespeare's plays are written...
Author
Publisher
E. Benn
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
You can imagine the packing, the running up and down stairs, the difficulty of choosing what to leave behind-for that is, after all, what it comes to when you are going away, much more than the difficulty of choosing what you will take with you. Miss Sandal, surrounded by heaps of toys and books-far too large to have been got into the trunks, even if all the clothes had been left out-at last settled the question by promising to send on, by post or...
9) Melisande
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Cursed by an evil fairy at her christening, Princess Melisande grows up bald but finds herself facing another set of problems when her wish for golden hair is fulfilled.
17) The ice dragon
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Jane and George follow the northern lights to the North Pole where they meet the wicked sealskin dwarfs and an enormous frozen dragon.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
1987, 1966.
Language
English
Description
An autobiographical account by the author of "The Railway Children" and other children's books, in which she describes a childhood spent sometimes within the security of her family and sometimes apart from them in schools she detested.
Author
Series
Publisher
Read Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This vintage book contains E. Nesbit "Psammead" trilogy, including "Five Children and It", "The Phoenix and the Carpet", and "The Story of the Amulet". The stories revolve around five children called Anthea, Cyril, Robert, Jane and the "Lamb", whose lives are changed after the discovery a wish-granting sand fairy with whom they embark on many magical adventures. This classic children's trilogy is perfect bedtime reading material and is not to be...
