Children's Literature

Twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twice‑told Tales gathers a series of short stories that plunge the reader into the turbulent world of…

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of short poems that capture the everyday…

The Marvelous Land of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Marvelous Land of Oz is a juvenile fantasy adventure that begins in the northern Gillikin region with a…

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Hugh Lofting

The Story of Doctor Dolittle is a fantasy tale aimed at younger readers, built around the extraordinary…

Rilla of Ingleside

L. M. Montgomery

The novel is a juvenile‑fiction portrait of life on Prince Edward Island during the First World War, told…

The Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book is a collection of folk narratives gathered from a variety of European sources, each…

Five Children and It

E. Nesbit

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

Thornton W. Burgess

The story is a lively animal adventure aimed at young readers, featuring the familiar cast of Peter Rabbit,…

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is a lively school‑house story set in a bustling New England boarding school, opening with the…

Heidi (Gift Edition)

Johanna Spyri

Heidi is a nineteenth‑century Swiss tale that follows a young orphan girl as she is taken up the Alpine path…

The Nürnberg Stove

Ouida

The work is a nineteenth‑century juvenile tale by Ouida that opens with a richly detailed portrait of Hall, a…

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The novel is a juvenile fiction that follows the conduct of life of a young English boy, Cedric Errol, whose…

Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground is a whimsical fantasy that begins with a very ordinary garden scene, quickly…

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

This work is a Victorian ghost story that doubles as a Christmas tale, set in fog‑shrouded London and…

Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott

The novel continues the March family saga by turning the beloved Plumfield estate into a bustling college…

Rainbow Valley

L. M. Montgomery

Rainbow Valley is a historical juvenile novel set on Prince Edward Island, where the lives of orphans,…

At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald

The work is a whimsical fairy‑tale narrated by an unnamed storyteller who claims to set out a different…

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

Lewis Carroll

The work is a whimsical, eight‑part nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, catalogued under “Nonsense verses” and…

The Story Girl

L. M. Montgomery

The opening of The Story Girl places us on a May morning as two cousins, Felix and the narrator, depart…

The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The Second Jungle Book continues Rudyard Kipling’s Indian jungle saga, focusing on the harsh drought that…

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is a juvenile story set in 19th‑century New England, weaving together city‑and‑town life with the…

The Story of the Treasure Seekers Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

E. Nesbit

The novel is a lively family adventure that follows the six Bastable children as they grapple with the loss…

Jack and Jill

Louisa May Alcott

The story opens on a bright December afternoon in Harmony Village, where the children are racing sleds down…

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings

Joel Chandler Harris

The work is a literary collection that gathers the songs, sayings, and animal fables of Uncle Remus, the…