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Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Travel back in time to the days before the American Revolution, when Dutch settlers populated the little towns along the Hudson River and ghosts roamed the mountains and river valleys. In "Rip Van Winkle," a henpecked husband escapes his nagging wife by wandering the Catskills, where he encounters some ...Show more
Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Readers of Eight Cousins, rejoice — Rose Campbell is back in town! It's been two years since she left Boston for a trip abroad with Uncle Alex and her companion, Phebe. She's all grown up now, and the beautiful, warm-hearted young heiress is quite the matrimonial catch. Her family expects her to marry r ...Show more
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Viscount and Lady Greystoke from England, are marooned in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa in 1888. Some time later, their son John Clayton II [3] is born. When he is one year old his mother dies, and soon thereafter his father is killed by the savage ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Part of the Legend Classics series 'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had.' -Ernest Hemingway A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slav ...Show more
The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. Meader
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
In 1718, long before the turbulent years of the American Revolution, life on a Maine sheep farm is a quiet affair. But unbeknownst to 14-year-old Jeremy Swan, his island home is ripe for plundering by sea raiders, who swoop down and drag him away. Once aboard the Revenge, it's all he can do to keep from ...Show more
The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Category: Children's Books | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Featuring beloved characters such as the Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, and the Snow Queen, a deluxe full-color edition of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytales, illustrated with stunning drawings and interactive artwork from MinaLima, the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harr ...Show more
The Tell-Tale Heart - And Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
This hair-raising collection presents some of Edgar Allan Poe's most ingenious and gripping tales, notably "The Tell-Tale Heart," in which the guilt-ridden narrator recounts his compulsion to commit murder. Other captivating stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher," concerning a most unnerving v ...Show more
Tom Sawyer, Detective and Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
Filled with the folk humor and storytelling charm that have made Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn such enduringly popular characters, these two comic gems trace the friends' further adventures. Tom Sawyer, Detective finds the boys summoned by Aunt Sally to "Arkansaw," where Uncle Silas is in deep trouble. Tom p ...Show more
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
What Katy Did Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy Did follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio town of Burnet.
White Fang by Jack London
Category: Children's Books | Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics Ser.
White FangJack LondonA wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized during the 19th Century Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang is a companion novel to The Call of the Wild."White Fang" is part dog, part wolf and all brute, living in the frozennorth; he gradually comes under the spell of man's companionship, ...Show more