Among the most popular and enduring children's books of the first half of the twentieth century, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of an endearingly talkative and precocious 11-year-old orphan who comes to live on the farm of an elderly brother and sister on Canada's Prince Edward Island. Red-haired and irrepressible, Anne causes a major disruption in the quiet lives of Matthew and Marilla C…
In it, Mary Lennox, an overindulged child suddenly orphaned, is almost magically transformed into an agreeable child when she comes to live at Misselthwaite Manor, the gloomy Yorkshire estate owned by her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven. With the help of Dickon, an unusual local youngster with the ability to charm nature, Mary not only manages to bring life and beauty to the secret garden - a…
Nobody wants me," said the Ugly Duckling. "I'm too ugly." So he leaves his home and goes out alone into the world. Will he ever find anyone to love him?"
When seven hungry children have pancakes for breakfast, one pancake refuses to be eaten, jumps out of the pan and rolls right away. Can the runaway pancake escape from the whole family, the dog, the rabbit, the duck, the cat, the goat, the fox and a cunning old pig?
Goldilocks looks as good as gold. But Goldilocks isn't good. She's naughty! She likes to do something naughty EVERY day - until she goes a step too far...