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Oxford Childrens Classics


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Oxford Children's Classics: Pride and Prejudice
9780192789228
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Pride and Prejudice

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  • A the perfect introduction to Pride and Prejudice-the classic love story.
  • Features an introduction by Malorie Blackman and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more.
  • When Lizzy Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy at a ball, it is not love at first sight. Lizzy is repelled by Darcy's ill manners and intolerable pride.
    Jane Austen

    Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her novels including Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park.
Oxford Children's Classics: A Christmas Carol and Other Stories
9780192789044
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A Christmas Carol and Other Stories

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  • Contains the complete unabridged text of A Christmas Carol and other Christmas stories written by Charles Dickens.
  • Features an introduction by Neil Gaiman and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spectral spirits on Christmas Eve. They guide him on a journey through his past, present, and future, showing him the joys of Christmas and the consequences of his wicked ways.
    Charles Dickens

    Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.
Oxford Children's Classics: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
9780192789020
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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  • Features an introduction by Frances Hardinge and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • When Alice follows a rabbit through a hole, she finds herself in the fantasy world of Wonderland-a whimsical place filled with talking creatures and amazing landscapes. As she faces challenges and impossible puzzles, Alice learns valuable lessons about courage and self-discovery.
    Lewis Carroll

    Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), was an English author, poet, and mathematician.
Oxford Children's Classics: Treasure Island
9780192789426
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Treasure Island

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Ross Welford, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map belonging to the notorious Captain Flint, he joins the voyage to recover it on board the Hispaniola. Little do they know that their ship's cook, Long John Silver, is a ruthless pirate who will lead their crew to mutiny on the remote and dangerous Treasure Island.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburg. In 1867, he entered Edinburgh University to study engineering but subsequently switched to law.

    Stevenson liked to travel and wrote many essays and short stories for magazines about these travels. Treasure Island was published in 1883 and was followed by Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886.

Oxford Children's Classics: Frankenstein
9780192789129
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Forthcoming: Frankenstein

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  • A perfect introduction to Frankenstein-the groundbreaking gothic horror novel.
  • Features an introduction by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more.
  • Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with creating life using electricity. He stitches together a collection of stolen body parts and shocks it into being. Horrified by his own creation, he rejects the monster. Isolated and shunned by society, it becomes set on revenge.
    Mary Shelley

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein and The Modern Prometheus.
Oxford Children's Classics: Peter Pan
9780192789198
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Forthcoming: Peter Pan

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  • A perfect introduction to Peter Pan-a timeless tale of adventure and imagination.
  • Features an introduction by Geraldine McCaughrean and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more.
  • One night, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell whisk the Darling children away from their London home and through the sky to Neverland-a magical world of lost boys, fairies, and mermaids. It's a dangerous place too, where evil lurks in the form of the dastardly Captain Hook and his villainous pirate crew.
    JM Barrie

    Sir James Matthew Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
9780192789402
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Lemn Sissay, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • When a great tornado carries Dorothy to the land of Oz, she finds herself alone in a strange and enchanted place. If she is ever to see her Kansas home again, she must travel to the Emerald City and ask the Wizard of Oz for help. It's a daunting journey, but with Dorothy's new friends at her side-the scarecrow, the tinman, and the cowardly lion-anything is possible.
    L Frank Baum

    L Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 and had seven brothers and sisters

    . After various jobs including journalist and actor, Baum wrote his first novel Goose in Prose in 1897 and went on to write over sixty books, including his most famous novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Railway Children
9780192789341
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The Railway Children

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Onjali Q. Rauf, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • When their father is taken away, Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis are uprooted from their comfortable home in London. Though they miss their old life they soon find a newfound love of the railway, and it becomes a source of great adventure and hope.
    Edith Nesbit

    Edith Nesbit was born in London in 1858, and wrote many stories and poems for both children and adults, including the much-loved Five Children and It, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, and The Railway Children.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Wind in the Willows
9780192789389
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The Wind in the Willows

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by M.G. Leonard, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • One morning Mole, sick and tired of spring cleaning, leaves his burrow and heads to the river. Here he meets Ratty and their friendship turns his quiet, orderly life into one of fabulous adventure.
    Kenneth Grahame

    Kenneth Grahame was born in Scotland in 1859

    . The Wind in the Willows was originally a story for Alastair, and was spoken aloud as short stories. Only after that did Grahame put them into one book which was published in 1908. He died in 1932 and is buried in Oxford.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Secret Garden
9780192789365
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The Secret Garden

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Geraldine McCaughrean, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • After her parents' death, Mary Lennox travels to England to live at her uncle's house in Yorkshire. Sour-tempered and selfish, she is unimpressed at what she finds there. Yet she can't help being intrigued by stories of a secret garden-once full of beauty, now hidden in a tangle of neglect.
    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester.

    . Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 followed by Little Princess in 1905 and The Secret Garden in 1911. These children’s books are what she is now best known for, although her adult novels were very popular during her life.
Oxford Children's Classics: Little Women
9780192789167
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Little Women

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Laura Dockrill, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • Meet the March sisters-Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy. Growing up in the midst of civil war isn't always easy, but despite their differences, they weather the storms together-bound by their sisterhood, strength, and sense of adventure.
    Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for Little Women, Good Wives, and Little Men.
Oxford Children's Classics: Heidi
9780192789143
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Heidi

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  • A perfect introduction to Heidi-a heartwarming tale about the power of nature.
  • Features an introduction by Julia Green and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more.
  • Heidi loves life in the mountains with her grandfather, looking after the goats, picking flowers in the meadow, and dancing among the fir trees. So when she's sent away to work in the city, she longs for home, the open sky, and the fresh air. Will she ever make it back to the mountains and her loving grandfather?
    Johanna Spyri

    Johanna Spyriwas a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories.
Oxford Children's Classics: Anne of Green Gables
9780192789075
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Anne of Green Gables

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Emma Norry, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • Anne Shirley's arrival on Prince Edward Island is a surprise to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. They'd requested a boy from the orphanage to help out on the farm and have no idea what to do with the chatty and imaginative girl in front of them. She simply cannot stay . .
    LM Montgomery

    LM Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, short stories, and poetry.
Oxford Children's Classics: Pollyanna
9780192789204
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Pollyanna

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  • A perfect introduction to Pollyanna-the ultimate tale of the power of positivity.
  • Features an introduction by Rashmi Sirdeshpande and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more.
  • When Pollyanna's father dies, she is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. Despite her troubles, Pollyanna is determined to look for silver linings. Soon her infectious optimism wins over everyone around her-but when tragedy strikes, her positivity faces the ultimate test.
    Eleanor H. Porter

    Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter was an American novelist. She was best known as the creator of the Pollyanna books.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Jungle Book
9780192789310
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The Jungle Book

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  • A perfect introduction to The Jungle Book-the world-famous adventures of the boy raised by wolves.
  • Features an introduction by Nizrana Farook and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more.
  • Separated from his human parents, Mowgli is adopted by wolves. He develops a friendship with Bagheera, a panther, and Baloo, a bear, who instructs Mowgli on the Laws of the Jungle. But The Jungle is full of danger and he must fight to survive.
    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Call of the Wild
9780192789105
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The Call of the Wild

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  • A perfect introduction to The Call of the Wild-a ultimate survival story.
  • Features an introduction by Anthony McGowan and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more.
  • Half St Bernard and half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. Surrounded by cruelty, he adapts and learns the ways of the wilderness. Using his strength and instinct, Buck must fight for survival.
    Jack London

    Jack London was an American novelist and journalist.
Oxford Children's Classics: Black Beauty
9780192789099
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Black Beauty

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Hannah Gold, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • As a young horse, Black Beauty is kindly treated and well cared for, but after he is scarred in an accident his fortunes start to change. From high-stepping thoroughbred to downtrodden cab horse, Black Beauty's story remains one of the most moving novels ever written about an animal's life.
    Anna Sewell

    Anna Sewell was born in 1820. At the age of fourteen, she injured both of her ankles in an accident, which meant that she could never walk properly again. Because of this she relied heavily on travelling in horse-drawn carriages, and it was from here that her love of horses grew.

    In 1871, Anna began writing a book aimed at encouraging more humane treatment of horses. Owing to her failing health the story took nearly seven years to complete but was eventually published in 1877.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Hound of the Baskervilles
9780192789303
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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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  • Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Nancy Springer, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • Master detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Dr Watson are called upon to investigate the untimely death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Many are quick to blame a family curse and a ghostly black hound, but is there a more logical explanation?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in May 1859 and was educated at a Jesuit school. His first novel, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1881 and introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world. Arthur Conan Doyle soon became very popular and his stories about the great detective were serialised in the Strand Magazine.

    In 1902 he was knighted and also wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
9780192789266
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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  • Features an introduction by Candy Gourlay and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • Tom Sawyer is energetic, imaginative, and full of playful mischief. He creates quite a stir when he moves to a small village on the Mississippi River to stay with his Aunt Polly. But when Tom witnesses a murder, he finds himself in serious trouble.
    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain was an American novelist and humorist, best known for his adventure stories of American boyhood, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Oxford Children's Classics: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9780192789242
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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  • Features an introduction by Candy Gourlay and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities, and more.
  • Huckleberry Finn fakes his own death to escape from his cruel father and meets Jim, who is escaping slavery. Together they travel along the Mississippi River in search of a new life. Navigating a world of robbers, slave hunters, and con men, Huck and Jim form a friendship, but will they find the freedom that they both desire?
    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain was an American novelist and humorist, best known for his adventure stories of American boyhood, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.