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New Treasure Seekers (Bastable Family #3) by E. Nesbit
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
The final instalment of the escapades of the Bastable children.Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H. O. and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald o ...Show more
Olivia Colman Reads The Railway Children (Famous Fiction) by E. Nesbit
Category: Audio | Series: Famous Fiction
Olivia Colman reads Edith Nesbit's classic novel The Railway Children is a masterpiece of children's fiction. It wonderfully evokes a bygone age and is packed with fun, excitement and adventure. When their father goes away unexpectedly, Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis have to move from London to a c ...Show more
Pinocchio Comes to Life by E. Nesbit
Category: Picture Books
This series contains a collection of tales from the toy box.
Railway Children by NESBIT E
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Everymans Library Childrens Classics
Edith Nesbit wrote with supreme confidence about the lives of children and Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis, the trio in The Railway Children, reflect her faith in the resourcefulness, capacity for adventure, and instinctive heroism of the young. This edition of her most popular book restores the splendid or ...Show more
Shakespeare Retold by E. Nesbit
Category: Children's Classics
A beautifully illustrated collection of prose retellings of seven Shakespeare plays will bring the Bard to life for young readers. Not only is this a beautiful keepsake edition, full of gorgeous illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo, but the prose retellings by beloved classic children's book author E ...Show more
Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers by E. Nesbit
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
Twelve of Shakespeare's greatest tales come to life in this entertaining collection of short, lively stories specially adapted for young readers. Capturing the vital events and using some of the original wording, the stories serve as a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for preteens and as literate ref ...Show more
The Best of Shakespeare - Retellings of 10 Classic Plays by E. Nesbit; Iona Opie (Introduction by); Peter Hunt (As told to); William Shakespeare (Based on a play by)
Category: Classics | Series: The\Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature Ser.
At the heart of any great work of literature is a story. William Shakespeare's plays are no exception. They tell the stories of kings and queens, of ghosts and witches, of romance and passion. But to get to the stories at the heart of the Bard's plays, the reader must first work through Shakespeare's la ...Show more
The Enchanted Castle (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring that grants wishes. But wishes granted are not a ...Show more
The Lark by E. Nesbit
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Women Writers Ser.
It's 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, the orphaned cousins embark on a series of misadventures--cutting flowers from their fro ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E. Nesbit
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Psammead
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fireworks, their parents replace it with a second-hand one. Upon unfurling it, the children find an egg inside, and, when one of them accidentally drops it into the fire, it hatches into a magical golden phoenix, ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E. Nesbit
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Psammead
This is the second book in the Psammead Trilogy, following Five Children and It. 'For the egg was now red-hot, and inside it something was moving. Next moment there was a soft cracking sound; the egg burst in two, and out of it came a flame-coloured bird...' When a stone egg rolls out of the old rug t ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E Nesbit
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It. From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the fire to reveal a benevolent, resourceful and ingenious Phoenix who explains that the car ...Show more