When Kay gets a splinter of the wicked troll's magic mirror in his heart it becomes hard and cold - just like a lump of ice. Kay is abducted and bewitched by the chillingly beautiful Snow Queen and his loyal sister, Gerda is prepared to face anything to find her brother and bring him home. So, she undertakes the nightmarish journey to the Snow Queen's icy labyrinth...

The most famous fabulist after Aesop, the French poet Jean de la Fontaine published his three collections of fables in the second half of the seventeenth century, and found that not only had he an instant popular success on his hands; he happened to have written a literary masterpiece as well. Though not specifically composed for the young, these tales have a freshness and vividness which continue to appeal to children today, while the psychological astuteness of the author and the wit and elegance of his style will impress adults as well. La Fontaine happily ransacked a whole range of...

Captured on the Pennsylvania frontier, little John Butler is adopted by the warrior Cuyloga. He has spent 11 years as fully Indian, when a treaty compels him to return to the family he had long forgotten and no longer desired. Despairing and defiant, he ma

This collection reproduces eight of Randolph Caldecott's picture books, which took as texts traditional rhymes and songs, and which he illustrated in sepia and colour. The books reproduced here include The Babes in the Wood, The Queen of Hearts and Sing a Song of Sixpence.