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  • Heidi

    Anne De Graaf, Johanna Spyri, Chris Molan

    Hardcover (Good News Pub, Feb. 1, 1991)
    A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains
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  • Treasure Island By: Robert Louis Stevenson,illustrated By: N. C. Wyeth: Classics for Younger Readers. Newell Convers Wyeth

    Robert Louis Stevenson, N. C. Wyeth

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 16, 2017)
    Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. PLOT: PART I—"THE OLD BUCCANEER" An old sailor, calling himself "the captain"—real name "Billy" Bones—comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the west English coast during the mid-1700s, paying the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for a one-legged "seafaring man". A seaman with intact legs shows up, frightening Billy—who drinks far too much rum—into a stroke, and Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet the contents of his sea chest. After a visit from yet another man, Billy has another stroke and dies; Jim and his mother (his father has also died just a few days before) unlock the sea chest, finding some money, a journal, and a map. The local physician, Dr. Livesey, deduces that the map is of an island where a deceased pirate—Captain Flint—buried a vast treasure. The district squire, Trelawney, proposes buying a ship and going after the treasure, taking Livesey as ship's doctor and Jim as cabin boy. PART II—"THE SEA COOK" Several weeks later, Trelawney sends for Jim and Livesey and introduces them to "Long John" Silver, a one-legged Bristol tavern-keeper whom he has hired as ship's cook. (Silver enhances his outre attributes—crutch, pirate argot, etc.—with a talking parrot.) They also meet Captain Smollett, who tells them that he dislikes most of the crew on the voyage, which it seems everyone in Bristol knows is a search for treasure. After taking a few precautions, however, they set sail on Trelawny's schooner, the Hispaniola, for the distant island. During the voyage, the first mate, a drunkard, disappears overboard. And just before the island is sighted, Jim—concealed in an apple barrel—overhears Silver talking with two other crewmen. They are all former "gentlemen o'fortune" (pirates) in Flint's crew and have planned a mutiny. Jim alerts the captain, doctor, and squire, and they calculate that they will be seven to 19 against the mutineers and must pretend not to suspect anything until the treasure is found when they can surprise their adversaries. PART III—"MY SHORE ADVENTURE" But after the ship is anchored, Silver and some of the others go ashore, and two men who refuse to join the mutiny are killed—one with so loud a scream that everyone realizes there can be no more pretense. Jim has impulsively joined the shore party and covertly witnessed Silver committing one of the murders; now, in fleeing, he encounters a half-crazed Englishman, Ben Gunn, who tells him he was marooned here and can help against the mutineers in return for passage home and part of the treasure............... Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.[1] During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books,[2] 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known.The first of these, Treasure Island, was one of his masterpieces and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft.....
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  • Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Hardcover (Dalmatian Press, Jan. 15, 2003)
    Rare Book
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  • Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott, Martin Hargreaves, Patrick Whlean

    Hardcover (Dalmatian Press, Oct. 1, 2004)
    A lcott prefaces Little Women with an excerpt from John Bunyan’s seventeenth-century work The Pilgrim’s Progress, an allegorical novel about leading a Christian life. Alcott’s story begins with the four March girls—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—sitting in their living room, lamenting their poverty. The girls decide that they will each buy themselves a present in order to brighten their Christmas. Soon, however, they change their minds and decide that instead of buying presents for themselves, they will buy presents for their mother, Marmee. Marmee comes home with a letter from Mr. March, the girls’ father, who is serving as a Union chaplain in the Civil War. The letter inspires the girls to bear their burdens more cheerfully and not to complain about their poverty.
  • Ben Hur: Retold for Today's Children

    Anne de Graf

    Hardcover (Scandinavia, Jan. 25, 1989)
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  • Stories from Hans Andersen

    Hans Christian Andersen, Edmund Dulac

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 29, 2015)
    But the gem of the whole collection, I am inclined to think, is "The Emperor's New Clothes," which in subtlety of intention and universality of application rises above age and nationality. Respect for the world's opinion and the tyranny of fashion have never been satirized with more exquisite humor than in the figure of the emperor who walks through the streets of his capital in robe de nuit, followed by a procession of courtiers, who all go into ecstasies over the splendor of his attire. —Essays on Scandinavian Literature, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen “The Emperor's New Clothes” is but one of seven classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen in this 1911 collection. Written for children, their appeal knows no bounds. Setting this edition apart from other Andersen collections are the extraordinary illustrations of Edmund Dulac. The Stories The Snow Queen The Nightingale The Real Princess The Garden of Paradise The Mermaid The Emperor's New Clothes The Wind's Tale
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  • Laura Ingalls Wilder, the little house books reading guide

    Ann Weller Dahl

    Plastic Comb (Calvert School, March 15, 1994)
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  • Uncle Tom's Cabin: Retold for Today's Children

    Anne de Graf

    Hardcover (Scandinavia, Jan. 25, 1989)
    BRAND NEW, Off Our Store Shelf, SHIPS WITH IN 24 HOURS, Check out our other store inventory. We have bulk of a lot of books and bibles. We are a FULL RETAIL BOOKSTORE that has been in business since 1982 and we do appreciate your purchase and value you as a customer. *some items make have light shelf scuffing, pricing stickers, dust jacket may be slighty torn or imperfect and remainder marks on the binding but no items shipped are used or damaged. All items come out of our retail store stock & shelves. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to write us. Thank you.
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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum, William Wallace Denslow

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 26, 2014)
    L. Frank Baum far exceeded his purpose when he set down to write his classic THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ. Unless, of course, CHILDREN means “everyone young and old and in-between” and TODAY means “forever.” Who hasn’t read the book or seen the movie or a stage production? Or all three? More than once? In each of us there is a little bit of Dorothy and her desire to return to the comfortable world she once knew—a little of the Scarecrow filled with insecurity, wanting to understand—a bit of the Cowardly Lion, uncertain of our courage, our ability to live up to others’ expectations. This is our story to enjoy again—and again!
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  • The Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum

    Hardcover (Dalmatian Press, Jan. 16, 2004)
    This is a classic and ready for your child/family time.
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  • A Little Princess

    Dalmatian Press

    Hardcover (Dalmatian Pr, Jan. 1, 2007)
    Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
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  • Heidi: Retold for Today's Children

    Anne de Graf

    Hardcover (Scandinavia, Jan. 25, 1989)
    BRAND NEW, Off Our Store Shelf, SHIPS WITH IN 24 HOURS, Check out our other store inventory. We have bulk of a lot of books and bibles. We are a FULL RETAIL BOOKSTORE that has been in business since 1982 and we do appreciate your purchase and value you as a customer. *some items make have light shelf scuffing, pricing stickers, dust jacket may be slighty torn or imperfect and remainder marks on the binding but no items shipped are used or damaged. All items come out of our retail store stock & shelves. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to write us. Thank you.
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