With artwork from the 1940s, allof the original charm and beauty of the Disney classic can be found in this vintage book.

    The beautiful, vintage illustrations in this Little Golden Book retelling will charm children and collectors alike.

    But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland—too far a journey for any dog to make alone.But Lassie is not just any dog.First published in 1940, Lassie Come-Home has become one of the best-loved dog stories in the world. This beautiful edition showcases the original text and illustrations within a striking new jacket.

    Horton's kindness and faithfulness are sorely tested when he, and the egg, are kidnapped and sold to a circus - but his reward for being faithful is more wonderful than he could ever have dreamed!With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr Suess has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic 'Cat in the Hat', and ranked among the UK's top ten favourite children's authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching Dr Seuss's best-selling books. In response to consumer demand, bright new cover designs incorporate much-needed guidance on reading levels. The standard paperbacks divide into three reading strands - Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. This is a Yellow Back book.

    Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes repetition, patterns, and colors, perfect for early readers.This tale of a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity and also teaches children about problem and resolution.

    A. and Margret Rey’s popular primate and painted in the original watercolor and charcoal style. Firefighters are a famously brave lot, but can they withstand a visit from one curious monkey? For more monkey fun, investigate www.curiousgeorge.com and discover all the latest on Curious George books, promotions, games, activities, and more!

    A book that, along with its fun, truly illustrates the American scene.

    Once they meet him all sorts of wonderful things start to happen, for Tammylan introduces the children to his animal friends, and soon the ways of badgers and squirrels, rabbits and frogs, moles, otters and snakes are familiar to them, and London seems far away and unreal.

    Inspiration has been drawn from the original publishers' connections with The Glasgow School of Art to produce an exquisite new cover. With fresh new title pages and endpapers, reset text and printed on a fine quality paper, these new editions make a charming gift for all Flower Fairy enthusiasts. In a format that has enchanted readers for 90 years, each of Cicely Mary Barker's beautiful illustrations of the fairies of wild and familiar flowers is accompanied by a delightful poem. Flower Fairies of the Trees celebrates and introduces children to the flowers and fruits that grow on trees by making them magical. Favourites to be found in Flower Fairies of the Trees include: The Cherry Tree Fairy, The Almond Blossom Fairy and The Mulberry Tree Fairy. The seven other titles in the Flower Fairies series, Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Summer, Flower Fairies of the Autumn, Flower Fairies of the Winter, Flower Fairies of the Wayside, Flower Fairies of the Garden and A Flower Fairy Alphabet, are available as single editions or as part of The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies. Also available from Penguin is The Everyday Handbook for Magical Mothers as presented by the Flower Fairies - a handy, pocket-sized book of craft ideas and recipes for mothers who need a touch of magic in their lives.

    When she's sent away to boarding school she makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been! But Elizabeth soon finds out that being bad isn't as easy as it seems...Cover Illustration: Paul Davies

    A collection of Mother Goose with the rhymes grouped by type: lullabies, learning rhymes, game songs, rhymes about animals, and others.

    So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy become such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy.Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib.Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.

    Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave.

    Of course, as soon as Peter, Pam and their cousin Brock hear this they are determined to solve the mystery even though it means pitting their wits against the unknown enemy that awaits them.

    The materials are attached to durable pages, and the toddler is asked to feel the material or to look in the provided mirror.

    Meader, master storyteller, takes the reader in four separate books across fifty years of American life upon the sea. Cleared for Action! begins in the spring of 1812 when Jeff Robbins is forced from a Yankee merchant schooner to serve on a British frigate--only weeks before war with England is declared. In Whaler 'Round the Horn, Rodney Glenn runs away to sea on a whaler, only to be left the sole survivor of a rampage by a monster whale. Voyage of the Javelin catches the reader up in the breathtaking race of the square-riggers of the 1850's, as young Bob Wingate circles the globe. In Phantom of the Blockade, Anse O'Neal, and the crews of the small Confederate blockade steamships, must come to grips with the Confederate's losing plight but not before a last few hair-raising voyages are made between North Carolina and Bermuda.

    Hundreds of famous persons, places, dates, and events: Columbus, St. Isaac Jogues, Fr. Marquette, Mother Seton, etc. Great for both homeschoolers and Catholic schools!

    

    Mab is spirited orphan who had been living with her Aunt Sarah in Iowa. Now she travels to Massachusetts to live with her Aunt Belinda Prior, where she will explore family history and make lasting friends in a close knit and quirky community.

    As Roy remarked when they arrived : "You just don't expect things to happen here because you know they won't !"But how wrong he was !Almost from the moment they set foot on the island things started to happen. Karovin, one of the cruellest characters in Europe, the would-be revolutionaries in Czaravia, and the mysterious guest at the castle turned the holiday into a tense and dangerous adventure ending in a desperate battle in defence of the Grenvilles' "garrison" in mid-river.