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E. Nesbit
When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the…
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E Nesbit
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
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Illustrated by Ella Okstad, this new edition includes extra material for young readers.
E Nesbit was one of the great British Edwardian storytellers, whom we now remember most for her children's novels. But she wrote ghost stories prolifically for adults, her imagination focused…
E. Nesbit is one of the most influential children’s writers ever to have lived. Modern fans include Neil Gaiman, J. K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, Kate Saunders and Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
From silly to scary, shocking to absurd, dragons abound in this collection of eight children's stories from beloved author E. Nesbit.
Originally published in the serial magazine The Strand, this…
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Julia Briggs
In A Woman of Passion, Julia Briggs chronicles the life of author Edith Nesbit who is credited with being the first modern writer for children and the creator of the…
Edith Nesbit’s natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children’s author. But beyond her beloved children’s stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed…
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E. Nesbit,E Nesbit
Twenty stories from the plays of William Shakespeare (as well as a simple biography of his life) are retold in this volume, first published in 1907. Nesbit does a wonderful…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother go digging in the gravel pit, the last thing they expect to find is a Psammead - an ancient Sand-fairy. Having…
Three wonderful volumes of classic fantastical children's fiction
Everyone familiar with children's fiction has heard of Edith Nesbit, who is rightly acclaimed as the first modern writer for children and…
Edith Nesbit,E Nesbit
Twenty stories from Shakespeare retold in lively prose. The author makes the complex language of Shakespeare’s greatest plays accessible to young children by relating the stories that form the core…
The Psammead Trilogy written by Edith Nesbit includes Five Children and It , The Phoenix and the Carpet , and The Story of the Amulet . The essays collected in…
Eleanor Fitzsimons
Fitzsimons’s eye-opening biography brings new light to the life and works of famed literary icon E. Nesbit, in whom pragmatism and idealism, tradition and modernity worked side-by-side to create a…
This volume contains the weird tales of the British writer E. Nesbit (1858-1924), who wrote two early collections of horror stories, Grim Tales (1893) and Fear (1910), while gaining celebrity…
The enchanted castle of the title is a country estate in the West Country seen through the eyes of three children, Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathy, who discover it while exploring…
The classic tale of three young siblings who fall in love with the local railway, while setting out to solve the mysterious disappearance of their father.
And at last her voice, half breathless, faltered, broke upon his name, And two tears fell from her lashes on the roses at her breast, Far more potent in their…
Here let me make a confession, I had never really loved a doll. My affections up to that time had been lavished on a black and white spotted penny rabbit…
A short avenue of cypresses led, widening as it went, to a marble terrace that lay broad and white in the sunlight. The children, blinking, leaned their arms on the…
When you hear that the four children found themselves at Waterloo Station quite un-taken-care-of, and with no one to meet them, it may make you think that their parents were…
When their father disappears, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis move out of London and experience new exciting adventures in the countryside. But will their father ever return?
