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The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: UQP Children's Classics Ser.
When Simon Brent's parents are killed in a car accident he is taken to live with his mother's second cousins, Edie and Charlie, on on Wongadilla, their 500 acre sheep run in the Hunter Valley. Simon with his city attitudes feels like an outsider, unable even to bring himself to call his cousins by name. ...Show more
The Phoenix and the Carpet (Psammead #2) by E Nesbit
$7.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It. From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there falls a mysterious egg which is hatched in the fire to reveal a benevolent, resourceful and ingenious Phoenix who explains that the car ...Show more
The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by George MacDonald
$6.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Children's Classics Ser.
When Princess Irene and her nursemaid stay out too late one night and are chased home by goblins, a young miner boy called Curdie comes to their rescue. So begins a fantastic adventure in which Irene and Curdie must try to stop a goblin invasion, helped by Irene's mysterious great-great-grandmother. Thi ...Show more
The Railway Children (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) by E. Nesbit
$6.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth's Children's Classics
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet. However, they soon come to love the ...Show more
The Rainbow Serpent by Dick Roughsey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Indigenous | Series: Australian Children's Classics Ser.
A timeless classic from the Dreamtime. there are innumerable names and stories associated with the Rainbow Serpent, all of which communicate the significance of this being within Aboriginal traditions. Dreamtime stories tell how the Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, m ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Oxford Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$12.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Oxford Children's Classics Ser.
What are you looking for? Friendship! Mystery! Adventure! Secrets! When spoiled, selfish orphan Mary Lennox is sent to live at lonley Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire, she discovers a magical world on the other side of a locked garden door. Mary decides to bring the abandoned garden she finds there back ...Show more
The Secret Garden (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$6.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across h ...Show more
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolf Wyss
$7.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
This story tells of the happy discovery of the wonders of natural history by a family shipwrecked on a desert island, who remain united through all the adversities they encounter. Inspired by Robinson Crusoe, this joyful narrative by a Swiss pastor remains a classic tale to be enjoyed by all.
The Swiss Family Robinson (Leather Bound) by WYSS, JOHANN
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics Ser.
"When a boat travelling to Australia hits a reef and is destroyed, only one family survives. Shipwrecked on an island, and with no sign of rescue, the Robinsons are forced to use whatever means possible to stay alive. Through their struggles, the members of the family learn, not only how to survive, but ...Show more
The Velveteen Rabbit & Other Animal Adventures (Wordsworth's Children's Classics) by Margery Williams
$6.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
This endearing edition proudly includes the original telling of the beloved tale, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. Together, we travel alongside the Velveteen Rabbit on his magical journey towards becoming real and discover how he and other toys are brought to life once they are truly loved by ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$9.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Arcturus Children's Classics Ser.
This new hardback edition of The Wind in the Willows, the classic story loved by children and adults alike, has been created in partnership with the world-famous V&A Museum, with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection.Spring is in the air and Mole has found a wonderful new worl ...Show more
Tom Brown's Schooldays (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Thomas Hughes
$6.95 AUD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Children's Classics
Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth). The book describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his t ...Show more