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A Little Princess (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances. Her strong character enables her to fig ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Aesop
$9.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Aesop's celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children. These simple tales embody truths so powerful, the titles of the individual fables - the fox and the grapes, the dog in the manger, the wolf in sheep's clothing and many others - have entered the languages and ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This edition contains Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them.Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Ra ...Show more
Complete Nonsense (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Edward Lear
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense S ...Show more
Five Children and It (Psammead #1) (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
$7.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes...it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur...and it had hands and feet like a monkey's'. 'It' was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day. When ...Show more
Heidi (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Johanna Spyri
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl's power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains. When she is sent to live in a city, comic chaos ensues, an ...Show more
Kidnapped & Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped remains one of the most exciting stories ever written. Young David Balfour, orphaned then betrayed by his Uncle Ebenezer, his so-called guardian, falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. Shipwreck, murder and dramatic escape ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain by H. RIDER HAGGARD
$7.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In King Solomon's Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost kingdom. Quatermain agrees to lead the expedition, though ...Show more
Knock Three Times (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Marion St. John Webb
$9.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Molly is desperately disappointed when, instead of the longed-for silver bangle, her Aunt Phoebe sends her a small, grey, pumpkin-shaped pincushion for her birthday. But at night, when the full moon shines, the pumpkin turns out to be a magical one. It leads Molly and her twin brother Jack into a strang ...Show more
The Little Prince by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
$18.00 NZD
Category: Kids Retro Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Irene Testot-Ferry. The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the ...Show more
Pinocchio (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Carlo Collodi
$6.95 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: From 2 To 12
Carved by Old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. And Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief. He runs away and joins a circus but eventually the conscience of a talking cricket and Pinocchio's guardian fairy restore him to g ...Show more
Puck of Pook's Hill (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
When Dan and Una stage a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He explains that he is the last of the People of the Hills, who started as gods before descending into this world. Puck leads the two children in a series of extrao ...Show more