1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Author: Julia Eccleshare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 960
Release: 2009
Genre: Best books
ISBN: 9781844036714

1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is the perfect introduction to the very best books of childhood: those books that have a special place in the heart of every reader. It introduces a wonderfully rich world of literature to parents and their children, offering both new titles and much-loved classics that many generations have read and enjoyed. From wordless picture books and books introducing the first words and sounds of the alphabet through to hard-hitting and edgy teenage fiction, the titles featured in this book reflect the wealth of reading opportunities for children.Browsing the titles in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up will take you on a journey of discovery into fantasy, adventure, history, contermporary life, and much more. These books will enable you to travel to some of the most famous imaginary worlds such as Narnia, Middle Earth, and Hogwart's School. And the route taken may be pretty strange, too. You may fall down a rabbit hole, as Alice does on her way to Wonderland, or go through the back of a wardrobe to reach the snowy wastes of Narnia.

Children of the Night

Children of the Night
Author: John Blackburn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781941147108

Mysterious tragedies have haunted the small English village of Dunstonholme for centuries. Is an ancient evil preparing to emerge once more?

Katy and the Big Snow

Katy and the Big Snow
Author: Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1943
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780395181553

Geappolis is hidden under a blanket of snow until a red crawler tractor saves the day.

The Best in Children's Books

The Best in Children's Books
Author: Zena Sutherland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1980-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780226780597

Includes indexes.

Nineteen eighty-four

Nineteen eighty-four
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2022-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.

Collected Children's Stories

Collected Children's Stories
Author: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2001
Genre: Children's poetry, American
ISBN: 9780571207565

Three classic children's stories, Mrs Cherry's Kitchen, The Bed Book and The It Doesn't Matter Suit, collected together in one volume for the first time.

Stuart Little

Stuart Little
Author: E. B. White
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062408216

The classic story by E. B. White, author of the Newbery Honor Book Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan, about one small mouse on a very big adventure. Now available as an ebook! Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend? Stuart Little joins E. B. White favorites Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan as classic illustrated novels that continue to speak to today's readers. Whether you curl up with your young reader to share these books or hand them off for independent reading, you are helping to create what are likely to be all-time favorite reading memories.

The Tiny Mouse

The Tiny Mouse
Author: Janis Ian
Publisher: Lemniscaat
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781788070256

A picture book based on the song The Tiny Mouse by Grammy award - winner Janis Ian. Follow the romping adventures of a tiny dapper mouse, who runs away to sea, suffers from sea sickness, narrowly escapes a grisly end at the paws of the ship's captain - a cat - and escapes back to shore where he settles down in married bliss. The moral of the tale, it's better to be at home than someone's dinner at sea. Illustrations by Ingrid & Dieter Schubert are full of quirky detail and humour.

Miss Twiggley's Tree

Miss Twiggley's Tree
Author: Dorothea Warren Fox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Why did Miss Twiggley live in a tree? Why did she send her dog, Puss, out to do the shopping? Why did she always run away and hide when people came to visit? And it was rumored that Miss Twiggley had even more peculiar habits... Old Miss Twiggley, was friendly with bears. "They shed on the sofa," she said, "but who cares?" And was it true, as the mayor's wife had heard, that she actually slept in her hat? "Simply disgraceful!" they said. But when a hurricane hits the town and the water rises, everyone is grateful to Miss Twiggley and her tree. Even better, Miss Twiggley herself learns a very important lesson, with a warm and happy ending. A beautiful read-aloud, showing people coming together during a crisis. This edition features a letter to the reader written by Dorothea Fox in 1995, explaining how she came to write this touching story.

Where Does the Day Go?

Where Does the Day Go?
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN:

Several children tell what they think happens to the day when night arrives.