Henry Carter Hull

Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass , with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carroll's novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded , his masterpiece of nonsense verse The Hunting of the Snark," and...

Beautiful classics -- all illustrated in full color! This gorgeous edition features Lewis Carroll¹s two much-loved novels, Alice¹s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass , all illustrated with John Tenniel's timeless art. In addition, the book includes Carroll¹s masterpiece of nonsense verse, “The Hunting of the Snark,” illustrated by Henry Holiday.

A color-illustrated, unabridged edition of the three Rudyard Kipling stories about Mowgli, in which the man-cub is raised by wolves, learns the Law of the Jungle from Baloo the bear and the others, is kidnapped by the Monkey People, and squares off against the tiger Shere Khan.

Presents a collection of fourteen stories which draw upon tales from ancient Greece, fourteenth-century Mongolia, France in the Middle Ages, and selections from Russia and Native America.

The Wise Woman tells the double story of two spoiled girls and the parents who spoiled them. A mysterious and powerful wise woman steps in to help the girls escape their destinies, but with little success. The great beauty of this short novel is graceful portrayal of how parents can harm their children by raising them without care and how difficult it is for children (and wise women) to find restoration to their true selves. Considered the grandfather...

The 9 stories in this collection explore the magic and mystery of strange lands populated not just by ordinary boys and girls but also by elves, fairies, kelpies, and a queen with screaming hair! In "Clem's Dream," a boy loses his dream and asks the Slipper, Tooth, Apple, Bread, and Water Fairies to help get it back for him. In "The Queen With Screaming Hair," 5-year-old Princess Christina of Laurestinia snips off the white whiskers of the all-powerful...

A secret village of elves living in the cupboard must fend off vacuum witches and deep-freeze trolls in the battles of the kitchen wars. The people who live in the house have no idea that an entire village of elves resides in their china cupboard, behind the soup bowls and bread-and-butter plates. And when the humans start their spring-cleaning by taking everything out of the cabinets, the king elf's crown disappears. Now the elven community is in...

"Pandora's grandmother is a witch! She's a lot of fun, but she gets into a lot of trouble, too... Whether she's bringing a sparkly dose of Christmas magic to a sad Winter Wonderland, casting spells that make kittens say "woof" and rabbits say "ribbit" at a pet show, or literally bringing history to life at a museum sleepover, life with Granny is certainly never dull!' --Page 4 of cover.

By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures.

The Chronicles of Narnia' are classics of children's literature - firm favourites with adults as well as children. Colin Duriez weaves together information and interpretation of Lewis's life and his writing, centring on the 'Chronicles of Narnia' but drawing on his other fictional and non-fiction works.