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The complete Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Lily Owens

More than 156 of the great Dane's best-loved fairy tales.

Emil and the Detectives (Red Fox Classics) by Erich Kästner

Kästner wrote this in 1929. It has subsequently been made into several movies (including Disney) and translated into over 50 …

King Matt the First by Janusz Korczak

A child king introduces reforms to give children the same rights as adults.

Montezuma's Daughter by Henry Rider Haggard

Dot & Anton by Erich Kästner

'Matches, buy my matches, ladies and gents!' calls Luise Pogge, a.k.a. 'Dot', evening after evening, standing on Weidendammer Bridge in …

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, Michael Chesworth, Louis S. Glanzman

Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, …

Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb (The Realm of the Elderlings Series, #13)

The Tarman expedition has at last found Kelsingra, a city filled with ancient treasures. Here, the dragons and their Elderling …

City of dragons by Robin Hobb (Rain Wilds chronicles -- v. 3)

Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb

Dragon Haven is a fantasy novel by American writer Robin Hobb, the second novel in The Rain Wild Chronicles. In …

Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb (The Realm of the Elderlings Series, #9)

On a mission to the Out Islands to destroy the dragon Icefyre, who has been frozen in a glacier for …

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome