Children’s Classics

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.

The second of two volumes which contain the complete collection of Beatrix Potters much-loved tales.

This is the tale of how a little girl named Fern with the help of a friendly spider saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs.

The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in C.

A lively and compelling novel published to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeares death. Brilliantly illustrated throughout and jam-packed with quizzes art tasks and other fun activities to spark a love of Shakespeare in young readers.

Roll up! Roll up! The Shortbread Family Circus is in town! Introducing the first tale in The Big Top Mysteries an exciting new series from Alexander McCall Smith and illustrator Sam Usher.

A ground-breaking experiment at a new research farm quickly grows out of control in this modern take on Day of the Triffids from master of creepy sci-fi Dan Smith.

The discovery of a long-lost carving sparks new friendships and unmasks a villainous plot in this captivating adventure from former Childrens Laureate Wales Eloise Williams

How will a group of teenagers react when they are offered £1000 to give up their mobile phone in Keren Davids thought-provoking story of perspective and influence.

Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2.

Lost in a land of small people Gulliver has to learn their ways and avoid starving! Then he lands in a country of giants. A beautifully illustrated and energetic retelling of one of the worlds favourite stories.

This volume contains five original fairy tales written by Wilde including the favourite The Selfish Giant. This highly moral story tells of a giant who banished children from his garden so that spring never came there.

In 1868 Louisa May Alcott began to write a novel based on her own childhood in the hope of settling some of her fathers mounting debts.

Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind. But her parents have decided shes just a nuisance who wastes too much time on reading and stories. And her headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a terrible bully who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up. Now its time for Matilda to find the power to change her story and show them just how extraordinary children can be.

Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curacao.

When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis Professor Moriarty the great detective hopes to avoid a murderous crime and bring the would-be assassin to justice. But on being informed soon afterwards that one John Douglas of Birlstone Manor has been found with his head blown apart by a shotgun he realizes that he is too late. And so begins an enthralling tale of revenge vigilantism and secret societies one that transports the reader from the English countryside to the violent world of the American frontier of the 1860s.

A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.

This series revisits some enduring examples of childrens literature re-illustrated for todays reader.

A young orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live at her uncles gloomy house in Yorkshire.

In this timeless classic join Huck and Jim as they encounter a wrecked steamship full of thieves a fake duke and king and two families locked in an epic feud.

This is the classic story of Heidi an unwanted child who finds love and happiness against all the odds.

When Anne Shirley erupts into their lives the Cuthberts little guess how fond they will become of the skinny red-haired orphan.

On one level this work is the story of an airmans discovery of a small boy from another planet in the desert and his stories of intergalactic travel and on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition.