Children's Classics

Original text from the 1823 anonymous poem published in the Troy Sentinel about Santa Claus filling stockingsand bringing toys to children all over the world. Black and white illustrations.

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.

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.

Abridged.

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+.

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.

A wild August torrent sweeps Abel Mouse away from home, family, and familiar world to an uninhabited island where, between efforts to return home, he makes new discoveries about himself and the world. A Newbery Honor Book. Reprint.

Everyone's favorite boy! Now, all three Alexander stories are combined into one delicious book: 'Alexander and the Terrible,Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day;' 'Alexander, Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday;' Alexander, Who's Not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move'. B&W illus. 96p. (Ages: 5-8)

Polly O'Keefe has recently moved in with her grandparents, the famous scientists Alex and Kate Murry, when she wanders into a time 3,000 years before her own. Perhaps it's not an accident - as she is told by two druids: When a gate between circles of time opens, it opens for a reason. When the gate closes behind Polly and her gravely ill friend Zachary, the reason becomes clear. In this desperate time, can Polly keep herself and Zachary alive until the gate reopens to bring them home? 367p. (Ages: Young Adult).

The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.