Childhood Classics—Ultimate Collection gathers a vast transnational inheritance of children's literature: fairy tale, animal fantasy, nursery fable, quest romance, school story, moral parable, and adventure narrative. Its more than 1,400 selections range from compact folkloric wonders and comic absurdities to expansive voyages, tales of enchanted transformation, and humane stories of courage and companionship. Canonical fairy-tale traditions stand beside imaginative modern classics, reveal...

The timeless tale of a horse named BeautyWith his fine black coat, his one white foot, and the distinctive white star on his forehead, Black Beauty is a magnificent creature, the pride of Squire Gordon's country estate. But when the squire has to move abroad, Beauty's fortunes change, and at the hands of other masters he suffers the cruelty and disregard that were sadly all too common for horses in Victorian England. In his wise, candid, and endearing voice, Black B...

This omnibus edition contains eight of the most loved children's books of all time. Your child will treasure this magical book throughout their childhood. Included are 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 'Black Beauty', 'The Wind in the Willows', 'The Adventures of Pinocchio', 'The Story of Doctor Dolittle', 'The Song of Hiawatha', 'Heidi', and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. This book will keep children captivated for hours on end and provided them with magical memories to last a life time....

"Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell, and is one of the most beloved horse stories of all time. As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new owners, some of them cruel and some of them kind. All he needs is someone to love him again.

Black Beauty (in full: Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, first published November 24, 1877) is Anna Sewell's only novel, composed in the last years of her life between 1871 and 1877 while confined to her house as an invalid.The story is told in the first person (or "first horse") as an autobiographical memoir told by a highbred horse named Black Beauty beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirem...

Told from the perspective of a horse, rather than a human, Black Beauty tells the life story of a horse, from his carefree youth spent in the apple orchards at an English farm, to working for a horse-drawn taxicab driver. Despite his many owners — some kind, some cruel — Black Beauty is determined to survive and earns a well-deserved retirement in the country.One of the best-selling books of all time, Black Beauty was an instant best-seller on publication in 1877. Anna Sewell’s onl...

This beautifully illustrated collection includes five classic masterpieces. Readers set out with timid Mole as he explores the world, learning about courage and friendship through a series of misadventures with Rat, Toad, and Badger in The Wind in the Willows. From the River Bank, tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice to a madcap world where nonsense rules in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. From Victorian England, it's on to a small New England town in Little Women, where Jo March and h...

Is it possible that a horse can think, analyse the situation and come to conclusions like a human? It is possible! Anna Sewell states that in her famous novel “Black Beauty” where the story is told on behalf of an English noble blood stallion. This touching and rather sentimental story teaches us to understand horses better, to treat nature and animals more carefully and to think about simple but very important values of life. That’s what Anna Sewell wrote briefly about her novel “Black Be...

This volume edited by Golden Deer Classics contains the following classic children's novels: - A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - Just so Stories by Rudyard Kipling - The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang - Kidnapped by Robert Lo...

I Love Animal Stories gathers fables, fairy tales, adventures, and sentimental animal narratives into a capacious introduction to the ways literature imagines the nonhuman world. Across talking beasts, loyal companions, comic escapades, and wilderness dramas, the volume ranges from ancient moral allegory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century children's classics. Memorable episodes of animal speech, peril, friendship, and transformation reveal how animal stories can entertain while questioni...

Spanning the breadth of children's literature in its most iconic form, 'The Greatest Christmas Novels Collection (Illustrated Edition)' presents a curated anthology that captures the essence of Christmas through variegated literary prisms. This collection encompasses a wide array of narrative styles—from the Victorian romanticism of Charles Dickens to the imaginative realms of L. Frank Baum and the poignant realism of Johanna Spyri. The compendium stands out not only for its thematic richn...

Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century tradition in which Christmas serves as both festive setting and ethical test. Across domestic realism, fairy tale, sentimental fiction, animal narrative, pastoral fantasy, and children's adventure, the collection examines charity, reconciliation, wonder, poverty, kinship, and social belonging. Its range is especially revealing: comic household scenes and fireside tales coexist with morally u...