Children's Classics

A young Mexican boy realizes that most of his problems and aspirations arise from his being the middle child of the family

Pongo the Dalmatian and his wife Perdita undertake a daring expedition to rescue their fifteen puppies from the clutches of the vicious Cruella de Vil.

"Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn't go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was always cold. His hands were as cold as his smile, and almost as cold as his heart. He wore gloves when he was asleep, and he wore gloves when he was awake, which made it difficult for him to pick up pins or coins or the kernels of nuts, or to tear the wings from nightingales."So begins James Thurber's sublimely revamped fairy tale, The 13 Clocks, in which a wicked Duke who imagines he has killed time, and the Duke's beautiful niece, for whom time seems to have run out, both meet their match, courtesy of an enterprising and very handsome prince in disguise. Readers young and old will take pleasure in this tale of love forestalled but ultimately fulfilled, admiring its upstanding hero ("He yearned to find in a far land the princess of his dreams, singing as he went, and possibly slaying a dragon here and there".) and unapologetic villain ("We all have flaws," the Duke said. "Mine is being wicked".), while wondering at the enigmatic Golux, the mysterious stranger whose unpredictable interventions speed the story to its necessarily happy end.

Cloth cover with dust jacket.

In a cold, gloomy castle where all the clocks have stopped, a wicked Duke amuses himself by finding new and fiendish ways of rejecting the suitors for his niece, the good and beautiful Princess Saralinda.

An adaptation of the nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

New edition of the classic story about Captain Nemo and his underwater adventures where he and the passengers on his submarine encounter deadly animals, underwater forests and more. Ages 10+.

Abridged.

A thoughtfully-written series of abridged classics, each of which has been rewritten to accommodate the reading and interest levels of children in the second through fourth grades who are simply too young to tackle larger, unabridged volumes. Includes book club questions and an afterword for parents and teachers by a noted educator.

When Peter, a young London boy with neglectful parents and a distant nanny, is transformed into a cat after rescuing stray cat Jennie from being hit by a car, Jennie takes care of him despite her contempt for humans, in a rerelease of a story originally published in 1950. By the best-selling author of The Poseidon Adventure.