The Adventures of Pinocchio (MinaLima Edition) by Carlo Collodi
$39.99 AUD
Category: classics
"The Adventures of Pinocchio" is a literary work written by Italian author Carlo Collodi. It was published in Italy in the newspaper "Giornale per i bambini" from 1882 to 1883, with the titles "Storia di un Burattino" ("Story of a puppet"), and is one of the most widely read works worldwide. The book co ...Show more
The Macmillan Collection of Greek Myths by Macmillan
$69.99 AUD
Category: classics
A beautiful hardback treasury featuring an array of incredible stories, this is the ultimate collection of Greek Myths and the perfect gift for mythology lovers of all ages. Orpheus and Eurydice, Persephone, Theseus and the Minotaur, The Golden Fleece, Perseus and Arachne . . . All the best-known Greek ...Show more
The Little Gumnut Tales (May Gibbs) by GIBBS MAY
$19.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: May Gibbs
Join your favourite Gumnut Babies on their adventures in the Australian bush! Snugglepot, Cuddlepie, Ragged Blossom and Obelia each learn new things or go on adventures in this reinvigoration of the classic May Gibbs tale. This beautiful boxed set, containing four storybooks, breathes new life into clas ...Show more
Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari; Valerio Vidali (Illustrator); Anthony Shuugar (Translator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: classics
Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is many stories within a story. Every night, a travelling father must finish a bedtime story in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's a carousel that adults cannot comprehend, but whose operator ...Show more
Favourite Stories of Courageous Girls by Louisa May Alcott; Brothers Grimm; L. M. Montgomery; L. Frank Baum; Hans Christian Andersen; E. Nesbit; Charlotte Brontë; Enid Blyton; Lewis Carroll; Hodgson Burnett; Frances
$14.99 AUD
Category: classics
This wonderful anthology features the stories of some of the best-loved heroines in children's books. From Jo March who sells her hair to raise money for her family, to George's single-minded commitment to protecting her island in The Famous Five to Bobbie's quick-thinking action that prevents a train c ...Show more
Forgotten Fairy Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls by Various
$24.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Illustrated Story Collections
Here are eight forgotten fairy tales, with heroines who are not quiet and passive, but adventurous, intelligent and daring. Stories include a sleeping prince rescued by a princess, sisters who fight a goblin to rescue a bear, and a young girl who outwits a giant to save her family.
Storm Boy-60th Anniversary Ed by Thiele Colin
$15.99 AUD
Category: classics | Reading Level: From 8 To 99
Storm Boy and his father live alone in a humpy among the sandhills between the Southern Ocean and the Coorong - a lonely, narrow waterway that runs parallel to a long stretch of the South Australian coast. Among the teeming birdlife of the Coorong, Storm Boy finds an injured young pelican whose life he ...Show more
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust
$29.99 AUD
Category: classics
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams with her second husband, an American dentist, and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Pro ...Show more
Mr Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
$19.99 AUD
Category: classics
The story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on the Beagle and afterwards. Last century Charles Darwin set out on a voyage in the Beagle that would change forever the way human history was viewed. It was on this voyage that Darwin collected the information that gave birth to his controversial Theory ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock (FTI) by Joan Lindsay
$19.99 AUD
Category: classics
NOW A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES - STARRING NATALIE DORMER It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, ...Show more
A Bear Called Paddington (Gift Edition) by Michael Bond
$39.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Paddington
"Things are always happening to me. I'm that sort of bear."PADDINGTON Celebrate Paddington's 60th Anniversary with this exquisite gift edition. Unabridged and featuring beautiful colour drawings by the original illustrator, Peggy Fortnum, this is truly a book to be treasured. "A bear? On Paddington stat ...Show more
Quentin Blake's A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
$24.99 AUD
Category: classics
A beautiful edition of Dickens's timeless Christmas classic. A Christmas Carol is the book that defines the Christmas spirit. Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean-spirited miser, is visited by three ghosts one Christmas Eve. The ghosts show Scrooge the true value of Christmas: charity, good humour and love for his ...Show more