Seuls les amoureux véritables sont capables d’entendre la chanson des cloches. Ceux là ne s’arrêtent pas à un visage disgracieux ou à un physique peu agréable, car ils voient avec leur cœur. La jeune héroïne de ce conte ainsi que son fiancé trouveront finalement le bonheur, vous vous en doutez. Mais pour cela, ils devront faire appel à l’aide d’une amie précieuse : une chauve-souris ! Et c’est étonnamment grâce aux progrès sans cesse renouvelés de la science qu’ils viendront à bout d’un pr...

Le chef-d’œuvre britannique publié pour la première fois en France.Lorsque leur père disparaît mystérieusement, Roberta, Peter, et Phyllis doivent quitter leur vie confortable à Londres pour aller vivre dans un petit cottage à la campagne. Leur mère réussit à joindre les deux bouts en écrivant des histoires, mais la pauvreté les guette. Les enfants passent leurs journées à la gare voisine et se lient d’amitié avec les employés.Chaque jour, Roberta, Peter et...

Les enfants Bastable vivent à Londres avec leur père veuf, qui a récemment perdu sa fortune. Les enfants décident d’aider leur père en cherchant un trésor. Ils essaient diverses méthodes empruntées aux livres, telles que creuser dans leur jardin, devenir des bandits, épouser une princesse, sauver la vie d’une personne riche, mais rien ne semble réussir...Humour et aventures sont les ingrédients de ce roman (dont le titre anglais est : The Story of the Treasure Seekers,

* Book : The Enchanted Castle* Biography* BibliographyAn invisible princess, a magic ring, and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Gerald, Kathleen and Jimmy find when they stumble upon a mysterious castle. At first it all appears to be a lark. But the children soon discover they need all their bravery and ingenuity to contend with the castle's supernatural forces.

* Book : The Book of Dragons* Biography* BibliographyDragons — of all sorts — make for marvelous fun, and this collection of madcap tales is filled with them. Some of the legendary monsters are funny and mischievous, others are downright frightening, and a number of them are wild and unpredictable. There's a dragon made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, a scaly creature that carries off the largest elephant in a zoo, and even a dragon whose...

* Book : The Power of Darkness* Biography* BibliographyThe figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able to create genuinely chilling narratives in which the returning dead feature strongly. Sadly, these stories have bee...

* Book : In Homespun* Biography* BibliographyMY cousin Sarah and me had only one aunt between us, and that was my Aunt Maria, who lived in the little cottage up by the church.Now my aunt had a tidy little bit of money laid by, which she couldn't in reason expect to carry with her when her time came to go, wherever it was she might go to, and a houseful of furniture, old-fashioned, but strong and good still. So of course Sarah and I were not behindhand in going...

* Book : The Dragon Tamers* Biography* BibliographyThere was once an old, old castle, it was so old that its I walls and towers and turrets and gateways and arches had crumbled to ruins, and of all its old splendour there were only two little rooms left; and it was here that John the blacksmith had set up his forge. He was too poor to live in a proper house, and no one asked any rent for the rooms in the ruin, because all the lords of the castle were dead and gone thi...

* Book : John Charrington’s Wedding* Biography* BibliographyThe story's title character is a man who somehow always seems to get what he wants. John makes up his mind to marry May Forster, the prettiest young woman in the village. After John asks her to marry him several times, May finally agrees. John says that his love for May is so great that he would come back from the dead if that was what she wanted him to do. Two days before his wedding, John leaves to visit hi...

C’est déjà étonnant qu'un phénix naisse dans votre maison, mais c’est encore plus surprenant quand il se met à parler et révèle que le tapis dans votre salon est magique.Et pourtant, c’est exactement ce qui arrive à Anthéa, Cyril, Robert et Jane ! L’oiseau vaniteux accompagne les enfants dans une série d’aventures à travers le temps et l’espace, qui, comme souvent avec la magie, ne se déroulent jamais comme prévu…Si vous avez aimé La Dernière fé...

* Book : The Incomplete Amorist* Biography* BibliographyA gentle tale of romance and art from a noted children's author . . . "He asked idle questions: she answered them with a conscientious tremulous truthfulness that showed to him as the most finished art. Betty told him nervously and in words ill-chosen everything that he asked to know, but all the while the undercurrent of questions rang strong within her -- 'When is he to teach me? Where? How?' -- so that when at...

* Book : The Story of the Treasure Seekers* Biography* BibliographyWhen their mother dies and their father's business partner runs off with most of their money, the six intrepid Bastable children are determined to restore their family's fallen fortunes.