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Blueback: Australian Children's Classics by Tim Winton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Australian Children's Classics
Bluebackis an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia's best-loved authors.'Winton ... convince(s) us of the preciousness of our oceans not through lectures but through his characters' steady wonder.' New York Ti ...Show more
Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all. Sheena Knowles's upbeat, rhymin ...Show more
English Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Arthur Rackham
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: very good
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth's Children's Classics | Reading Level: good
The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
$14.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Like Sleeping Beauty awakening from her 100-year slumber, these childhood favorites arise fresh and blooming every time they're read. This new compilation of some of the world's greatest fairy tales abounds in timeless stories of the struggle of good against evil, bravery in the face of overwhelming dan ...Show more
Hating Alison Ashley (Australian Children's Classics) by Robin Klein; Allison Colpoys (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Music | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
'There was one kid, Alison Ashley, and becuase no one was sitting next to me, Miss Belmont put Alison Ashley there. And from the first day I hated her.'Alison Ashley is sheer perfection in every department. She has everything: intelligence, good looks, a wealthy family and perfect manners and Erica hate ...Show more
Heidi (Oxford Children's Classics) by Johanna Spyri
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford Children's Classics
If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the mountains, the two grow to love each other dearly. He ...Show more
Heidi (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Johanna Spyri
$7.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
I Can Jump Puddles (Australian Children's Classics) by Alan Marshall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Australian Children's Classics | Reading Level: 10+
It amazed me that they would imagine I would never walk again. I knew what I was going to do. I was going to break in wild horses and yell 'Ho! Ho!' and wave my hat in the air, and I was going to write a book like The Coral Island. Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving ...Show more
Irish Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Joseph Jacobs
$6.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Illustrated by John D. Batten. Stories selected by Jennifer Chandler, The Folklore Society. The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as Paddy O'Kelly and the Weasel, and tales of heroes from ancient literature such as How Cormac Mac Art went to Faery. By ...Show more
Just So Stories (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Rudyard Kipling (Illustrator)
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs - everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and funny, these fantastical stories continue to delight each and every generation.With an introduction by Jonathan Stroud
Lassie Come-Home (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Eric Knight
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
eng ‘Everyone in Greenall Bridge knew Sam Carraclough's Lassie. In fact, you might say that she was the best-known dog in the village … because nearly every man in the village agreed she was the finest collie he had ever laid eyes on.’ Sam's son Joe and Lassie are a devoted pair but a time comes when th ...Show more