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1) The BFG
Author
Publication Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Author
Publication Date
2025
Language
English
Description
Introduce a new generation to Oscar Wilde's classic children's tales with this stunningly illustrated luxury gift edition – a must-have for young readers this Christmas.Oscar Wilde has enchanted readers young and old alike for over a hundred years. In 1888, he published a collection of bedtime stories for children. This beautiful collection contains six of these classic tales: 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Happy Prince', 'The Devoted Friend', 'The Nightingale...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Publication Date
2013, 2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
An account of how the author came to be a writer and selections from his writer's notebook augment stories juxtaposing fantasy and truth, and peopled with outrageous and courageous characters.
Author
Series
Horrid Henry volume 20
Publication Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
You Won't Believe What Horrid Henry Will Do Next!
Henry knows that a class sleepover at a museum can only be on thing—boring!!
So he's invited a few party crashers to liven things up...Zombie Vampires!
Plus three other stories that will leave you screaming for more!
If you read this book, you'll laugh so hard milk might come out of your nose!
(Find out why millions of kids around
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Publication Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Collects twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, which include kings, princesses, servants, a mysterious flower, orphans, enchanted woods, an organ-grinder, giants, a little dressmaker, fairies, and a kindly farmer.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Multi-award-winning author Lucy Cousins retells three of her favourite fairy tales in spare, bold language and brilliant, vibrant pictures. 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears', 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff' and 'The Little Red Hen' are treated to Lucy Cousins' striking artwork and dynamic storytelling in this new edition of a well-loved title.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Life for the Tollins in idyllic Chorleywood has been turned upside down ever since the humans built a fireworks factory and started using Tollins as industrial supplies. Now renegade Tollin Sparkler is back for more danger, adventure, and hilarity.
Author
Publisher
Fall River Press
Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful classics -- all illustrated in full color! This gorgeous edition features Lewis Carroll¹s two much-loved novels, Alice¹s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass , all illustrated with John Tenniel's timeless art. In addition, the book includes Carroll¹s masterpiece of nonsense verse, "The Hunting of the Snark," illustrated by Henry Holiday.
Author
Series
Children's Circle Stories volume 1
Publication Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells, written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Publication Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Four brand new stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet, meet a dragon, and then go on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile"; all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover; a penguin arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood during the winter.
Author
Series
Publication Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
From silly to scary, shocking to absurd, dragons abound in this collection of eight children's stories from beloved author E. Nesbit. Originally published in the serial magazine The Strand, this anthology was reprinted as a single volume in 1901 and has served as a classic of both children's and dragon's literature ever since. Within, you'll find stories of a silly king, a stalwart princess, a pair of mischievous children on the hunt for adventure,...
20) Mortimer's cross
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Publication Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Three further adventures of Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, include "No Ravens in the Library," "The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi," and "Mortimer's Portrait on Glass."