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Books in Classics for beginning readers series

  • Faerie Gold: Treasures from the Lands of Enchantment

    Ranelda Mack Hunsicker, Kathryn Lindskoog

    Paperback (P & R Publishing, Jan. 13, 2005)
    Twenty-two fairytales and fantasies awaken the reader's imagination and direct it toward God's light. This collection is ideal for independent reading, family story hour, and classroom use.
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  • Moby Dick Retold For Kids:

    Max James

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, July 24, 2013)
    The hunt for a gigantic whale. You can't get more exciting than that. Herman's Melville's "Moby Dick" has long been considered one of the greatest American novels ever wrote. If you want to introduce your children to the classic work, then this is the perfect book. It takes the structure and plot of Melville’s work and puts it into a language and format that younger kids will understand. KidLit-O’s newest series helps introduce younger readers to classic works of literature by retelling them as beginning reader chapter books.
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  • Sir Gibbie

    George MacDonald, Kathryn Lindskoog, Patrick Wynne

    Paperback (P & R Publishing, July 1, 2001)
    In nineteenth-century Scotland, Gibbie, recently orphaned by his father's sudden death, witnesses a violent murder and flees to the countryside where he finds a new life and experiences many adventures.
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  • The Velveteen Rabbit

    Sarah Williams, Margery; Albee, Jeff Fisher

    Hardcover (Reader's Digest, Jan. 1, 2003)
    NEW HARDCOVER. ILLUSTRATED. SHIPS FROM WA- USPS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE. The Velveteen Rabbit (Classics for Beginning Readers, Reader's Digest Young Families) Hardcover – 2003. Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it. Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys--and people--become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with the original story and illustrations as they first appeared in 1922, will work its magic for all who read it. Animals; Christian; Classic & Allegory; Classics; Easter; Fiction; General fiction (Children's/YA); Juvenile Fiction; Rabbits; Toys
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  • Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Barbara Chitouras

    Paperback (P & R Publishing, Oct. 1, 2002)
    For more than 270 years, readers everywhere have been fascinated by the young fool who ran away from wealth, security, and family for a rough life at sea—and came to his senses too late, alone on a tropical island. Alone except for cannibals, that is, and God.Robinson Crusoe's adventure takes place on a remote island. Adjusting to the primitive conditions, he learns to make tools, shelters, bread, and clothes. More importantly, he becomes a Christian.Modern editions tend to leave out Crusoe's long struggle with God and his change as he studies God's Word. As part of the Classics for Young Readers Series, Kathryn Lindskoog faithfully preserves such details.
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  • Heidi

    Johanna Spyri, Ranelda Mack Hunsicker, Bruce Van Patter

    Paperback (P & R Publishing, Sept. 1, 2006)
    The classic tale of a beloved orphan set in the Swiss Alps and Germany. This edition includes deeper spiritual content that has been omitted by secular publishers, and some Christian publishers too!
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  • Rumpelstiltskin

    Catherine Samuel

    Hardcover (Reader's Digest Young Families, March 15, 2003)
    Classics for beginning reader's series. Story based on the original Rumplestilskin story written by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. It begins with a poor miller who had a beautiful daughter and boasted about her to anyone who would stop to listen. One day he told one of the King's cooks she could spin straw into gold. The cook in turn told the King. So the story begins. When the King demands that she turn his straw into gold, she is taken to a room in the castle. Since she could not really spin straw into gold, she sat crying and wondering what to do. Suddenly an odd little man with a grey beard appears telling her he can help but she has to guess his name. It turns out that was a difficult task but if you read the story it does have a good ending.
  • Little Women: Two Books in One

    Louisa May Alcott, Kathryn Ann Lindskoog, Barbara Chitouras

    Paperback (P & R Publishing, June 1, 2003)
    An abridged retelling of the classic novel, chronicling the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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  • The Velveteen Rabbit

    Sarah Williams, Margery; Albee, Jeff Fisher

    Hardcover (Reader's Digest, March 15, 2003)
    NEW HARDCOVER. ILLUSTRATED. SHIPS FROM WA- USPS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE. The Velveteen Rabbit (Classics for Beginning Readers, Reader's Digest Young Families) Hardcover - 2003. Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it. Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys--and people--become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with the original story and illustrations as they first appeared in 1922, will work its magic for all who read it. Animals; Christian; Classic & Allegory; Classics; Easter; Fiction; General fiction (Children's/YA); Juvenile Fiction; Rabbits; Toys
  • Heidi: A Guide for Teachers and Students

    Ranelda Mack Hunsicker

    Paperback (P & R Publishing, Sept. 1, 2006)
    A study book to accompany Heidi by Johanna Spyri. Includes vocabulary words for chapters, questions, and creative projects, quotations and interesting facts.
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  • The tale of Peter Rabbit

    Catherine Lukas

    Unknown Binding (Reader's Digest Young Families, Inc, March 15, 2003)
    good used condition
  • The Odyssey

    Roger Payne

    Hardcover (Brimax Books Ltd, Jan. 1, 1995)
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