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Step into worlds where wardrobes hide countries and woods whisper secrets—these are the stories that stitch themselves into childhood. Our hand-picked shelf of nursery favourites and fairytale lands, from the Wild Woods to the Emerald City, waits to be rediscovered or passed on. Every title a small, independent press edition, chosen for reading aloud under blankets.

39 books

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.

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Cautionary Tales for Children

Cautionary Tales for Children

Hilaire Belloc's wickedly funny verse follows children who lie, slam doors, chew string and generally misbehave, and meet gloriously exaggerated fates.

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Rinkitink in Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

A buoyant Oz adventure in which a comic king, a young prince, and Dorothy cross perilous islands on the way to Oz.

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The Young Railroaders: Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

The Young Railroaders: Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity

A collection of boyhood adventure stories set along the rails, where quick wits and steady nerves meet runaway trains and roadside emergencies.

$7.50

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

A boys' outdoor adventure that sends its young companions down the historic Missouri, mixing wilderness craft, river travel and American frontier history for eager young readers.

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The Emerald City of Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry settle in Oz as Baum combines domestic warmth, comic fantasy, and an invasion plot.

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The Red True Story Book

The Red True Story Book

Andrew Lang trades fairy tales for true ones in this companion to his famous colour-titled series: real episodes from history retold with a storyteller's flair.

$7.50

Peter and Wendy

Peter and Wendy

J.

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The Story Girl

The Story Girl

L.M.

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Child-Land: Picture-Pages for the Little Ones

Child-Land: Picture-Pages for the Little Ones

A charming illustrated book for young children, gathering pictures and simple pages meant to delight the very youngest readers and those who read aloud to them.

$7.50

The Goose Man

The Goose Man

A German novel of a musician torn between art, love and a stifling provincial world, tracing an artist's ambitions and failures with searching psychological depth.

$8.50

At the Back of the North Wind

At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald's tender Victorian fantasy.

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Five Little Peppers at School

Five Little Peppers at School

Another warm-hearted installment in Margaret Sidney's beloved Five Little Peppers series, following the lively Pepper children as they face the trials, friendships, and lessons of

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The Burgess Bird Book for Children

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

Thornton W.

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Fifty-Two Stories For Girls

Fifty-Two Stories For Girls

A generous story collection offering a tale for every week of the year, gathered for young readers.

$7.50

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

Thornton Burgess's charming natural-history storybook, introducing young readers to the birds and mammals of the American wild through the gentle lessons of Mother Nature and her w

$7.50

Rainbow Valley

Rainbow Valley

L.

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Six Girls

Six Girls

A warm domestic story of sisters growing up together, in the family-centred tradition of nineteenth-century fiction for young readers.

$7.50

English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales

A treasury of the tales England told its children, gathered from folk tradition.

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Black Beauty : $b The autobiography of a horse

Black Beauty : $b The autobiography of a horse

Anna Sewell's beloved horse tells his own life story, from green meadows to hard city streets.

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The Railway Children

The Railway Children

E.

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Three hundred Aesop’s fables: Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Three hundred Aesop’s fables: Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Aesop's timeless fables in George Fyler Townsend's classic Victorian translation, three hundred brief tales in which animals speak and act out the enduring lessons of human folly,

$8.50

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter's perfect little book about a naughty rabbit, a forbidden vegetable garden, and a very close escape.

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Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of moral tales whose talking animals, clever reversals, and concise lessons have shaped storytelling for centuries.

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Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll's dazzling sequel to Wonderland sends Alice through a mirror into a topsy-turvy chessboard world of talking flowers, warring kings, and unforgettable nonsense, where

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Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A.

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Dainty's Cruel Rivals

Dainty's Cruel Rivals

A romantic melodrama in the popular tradition, its title promising jealousy, rivalry and a heroine beset by scheming enemies.

$9.50

The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery

The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery

An entry in the popular early-twentieth-century series following a group of Camp Fire Girls as they turn detective.

$8.50

Boys and Girls Bookshelf

Boys and Girls Bookshelf

A classic anthology gathering stories, poems, and readings chosen to delight and instruct young readers.

$8.50

The Rover Boys on the Farm

The Rover Boys on the Farm

A lively installment in the classic Rover Boys series of adventures for young readers.

$8.50

The Boy with Wings

The Boy with Wings

Berta Ruck’s wartime novel blends romance, aviation, danger, and emotional resilience in a story shaped by flight and modern longing.

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Poems Every Child Should Know

Poems Every Child Should Know

A beloved anthology gathering the poems generations were once expected to grow up with — verses to be memorised, recited, and carried for life.

$8.50

Peter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]

Peter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]

J.

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The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

A beloved children’s classic of riverbank friendship, comic trouble, and pastoral adventure with Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad.

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved story of a sour, orphaned girl, a hidden walled garden, and the quiet magic of tending living things.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio

A wooden puppet’s journey from mischievous marionette to real boy is a darkly enchanting tale of folly, transformation, and the cost of growing up.

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The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

A boy raised by wolves learns the laws of the jungle, navigating a world where danger and wonder are inseparable.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

A cyclone carries Dorothy from Kansas to Oz, a land of technicolor wonders and peculiar companions.

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