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The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include The Happy Prince, who was not as happy as he seemed; The Selfish Giant, who learned to love little children; and The Star Child, who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Green Puffin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Category: No Category | Series: Green Puffin Classics Ser.
The classic story of friendship between man and beast. Young Mowgli escapes the vicious jaws of the growling tiger Shere Khan, and is adopted by Father Wolf. As he grows up, Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle, and so his extraordinary adventures begin . . . The ad ...Show more
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll (Young Puffin Modern Classics) by Edward Ardizzone
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics
There was once a tiny doll who belonged to a girl who did not care for dolls. One day when the little girl was shopping in the supermarket with her mother, she threw the tiny doll into a deep freeze. So the tiny doll had to stay there, cold and lonely, and frightened by people shuffling all the food rou ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A stunning hardback gift edition of one of the world's most beloved stories. The timeless, enchanting story of the little prince who lives on a tiny planet with three volcanoes and a haughty flower, which he must protect from the baobabs, the bad seeds. The rulers of the other planets he visits all suff ...Show more
The Railway Children by E Nesbit
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
When Father has to go away for a time, the three children and their mother leave their London house and go to live in a small house in the country. They seek solace in the nearby railway station, making friends with Perks the porter and with the station master himself. But the mystery remains: where is ...Show more
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes face to face with the bloodshed and horrors of war. Now he's a raw recruit, Henry experiences both fear and self-doubt. Will war make Henry a coward or a hero ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Nobody loves Mary - the heroine of the famous story of Francis Burnett "The Secret Garden". However, she does not burn with love for others, and moreover - she can not stand the whole world. And then her parents are passing away prematurely. There is an impression that nothing good can happen to her in ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her rec ...Show more
The Sheep-pig by Dick King-Smith
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Modern Classics | Reading Level: 9+
Farmer Hoggett thinks the piglet he wins at the fair is just one to be fattened up for the freezer until his old sheepdog, Fly, takes Babe under her wing and starts to train him to be a sheepdog too. Babe's methods are unconventional but successful and he wins the Grand Challenge Trials by being polite ...Show more
The Swiss Family Robinson by J. D. Wyss
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island, where a new life awaits them. Their ship is laden with supplies and the island is packed with treasures, so they soon adapt and discover new dangers and de ...Show more
The Tale of Troy (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
The story of Helen and the judgement of Paris, of the gathering Heroes and the seige of Troy; of Achilles and his vulnerable heel, reared by the Centaur on wild honey and the marrow of lions; of Odysseus, the last of the Heroes, his plan for the wooden Horse and his many adventures on his long journey h ...Show more
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: very good
When young D'Artagnan comes to Paris to seek his fortune, he is challenged to a duel with not one, but three of the king's Musketeers. But Athos, Porthos and Aramis become his trusted friends as he tries to prove himself worthy of becoming a fourth Musketeer.