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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Children's Classic) by Chris Sasaki (Abridged by); Lucy Corvino (Illustrator); Arthur Conan Doyle; Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they de ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Classic Starts) by Lewis Carroll
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Age range 6 to 9 Nothing's more magical than going down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, in worlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turned upside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Children will love reading Carroll's many humourous nonsens ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (Classic Starts) by Montgomery, L.
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Now every child can celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lucy Maud Montgomery's ever-popular story First introduced in Anne of Green Gables as a young orphan, Montgomery's feisty and imaginative heroine is now 16 years old and embarking on a new adventure: becoming a teacher in her old Avonlea school. It' ...Show more
Classic Starts: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Deanna McFadden (Abridged by); Karl James Mountford (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Follow the adventures of the four March sisters--Meg, Beth, Amy, and, most of all, the tomboy Jo--as they experience the joys and disappointments, tragedies and triumphs, of growing up. ...Show more
Classic Starts®: Heidi by Johanna Spyri; Lisa Church (Abridged by); Karl James Mountford (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
When Heidi, an orphan, goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, no one can imagine the solitary old man caring for a child. But the two grow to love each other, and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Johanna Spyri's charming story--and spirited heroine--have won hearts for more than a century. ...Show more
Heidi (Classic Starts) by Johanna Spyri
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Age range 6 to 9 When Heidi's Aunt Dete brings the orphaned girl to live with her grandfather, no one can imagine the bitter, solitary old man caring for a child. To everyone's surprise, the two grow to love each other - and Heidi blossoms in her new home. Classic Starts is a gorgeously produced, though ...Show more
Peter Pan (Classic Starts) by J. M. Barrie
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Age range 6 to 9 All children grow up. All except one. That special child is Peter Pan, and since making his debut on the stage in 1904, this eternal youth has carried boys and girls off to magical, marvelous Neverland. It's a trip that all kids want to make, and with this easy-to-read version of the cl ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Classic Starts) by Mark Twain; Oliver Ho (Abridged by); Dan Andreasen (Illustrator); Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunken father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Classic Starts) by Mark Twain; Martin Woodside (Abridged by); Lucy Corvino (Illustrator); Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Classics | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
An abridged version of the adventures of Tom and his friends growing up in a small Missouri town on the banks of the Mississippi River in the nineteenth century.