After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas. This volume is a facsimile of the 1900 edition.

A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood, including "The land of Counterpane," "My Shadow," "The Swing," "The Moon," and "Looking Forward."

This book forms part of our 'Pook Press' imprint, celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. 'The Wind in the Willows' is a true classic of Children's literature, penned by Kenneth Grahame and first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a traditional bucolic version of the English Thames valley - a novel notable for its adventure, mysticism, morality...

A young reindeer becomes a surprise Christmas gift for a city boy.

"Little Mo is one of the first mammals on Earth and everything is new to him--snow and ice, being home alone, and most frightening of all, dinosaurs! When a pack of triceratops decides to make Little Mo's cave their home, Mo musters all his courage and inventiveness to scare them away." --book jacket

Living in ruin and rubble with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child, a boy's tiny, green plant shoot gives him hope in a bleak landscape.

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

"Working as a builder's mate high on the church roof, keeping an eye out for your master and on the rest of the townsfolk, taking part in a dramatic rescue at sea - why, it's all in a day's work."

Although he is on crutches, a boy goes to the beach with his grandfather, where they watch a seal being born, and over the following seasons, the boy and the seal develop a special bond.

Imagine growing up among wolves, being friends with a panther and a bear, and hunting the most fearsome animal in the wild-the man-killing tiger Shere Khan. These are the stories of Mowgli ""the frog,"" a man-cub raised by wolves, and his journey to adulthood with the help of Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The Jungle Book is collections of short stories. Each story begins with a few lines of poetry. The best known of these jungle...