Books in The Little Colonel series series

Very Little Sleeping Beauty is adorably re-cast as a very little precocious toddler in this modern retelling of the classic tale. Once upon a bedtime, a certain little girl isn't very sleepy at all—tomorrow is her birthday, and she is reeling with excitement. From lullaby to stories to tickles to dancing, Daddy tries just about everything to get this little toddler to go to bed. Will Very Little Sleeping Beauty finally fall asleep to rest up for her big day? Look for all three books in this must-have read-aloud series: Very Little Red Riding Hood, Very Little Cinderella, and Very Little Sleeping Beauty.

The vivacious Lloyd Sherman, better rememberedas the Little Colonel, is growing up. As usual, this process brings bothpleasure and pain into her life. In this book Lloyd's adventures lead her,along with her best friends, to Warwick Hall, a lovely old boarding school inWashington, D.C., where they will have wonderful times together. When Christmasbreak comes along, Lloyd and her friends are filled with excitement over all ofthe parties and dances that they will attend. Christmas break is sure to bringLloyd happiness, but with it also comes painful disappointment. Will she everbe allowed to return to her beloved friends and school?Annie Fellows Johnston skillfully recreates the difficulties and joys thatare a part of becoming a woman. For generations (starting with The LittleColonel , also published by Pelican), the adventures of Lloyd Shermanand her fun-loving friends have won readers' hearts. The Little Colonel storiesprove that although times have changed, essential human qualities have not.

Very Little Cinderella is adorably recast as a very little precocious toddler in this modern retelling of the classic tale. Very Little Cinderella is upset when her ugly Sisters are off to a party without her. But her Fairy Godmother (the babysitter) comes to the rescue and takes her to the ball in her favorite blue dress. When the clock strikes midnight, she discovers she's lost her favorite "lello" boot. A happy playdate ensues when a young prince shows up the next day. Look for all three books in this must-have read-aloud series: Very Little Red Riding Hood, Very Little Cinderella, and Very Little Sleeping Beauty (Fall 2016).

As one of the gifts for her eleventh birthday Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, is given permission to hold her very own house party.She invites her closest friends from all over the country--Eugenia Forbes of New York City, Joyce Ware of Plainsville, Kansas, and Beth Lewis of Jaynes, Kentucky--to her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky for her special event.Over the course of the weekend the four girls learn that, though they are very different, they all have much in common, and also teach each other the true meaning of friendship.

One of the most beloved heroines of Americanchildren's literature, the Little Colonel, a delightful young Kentucky girl, isthe central figure in this nostalgic tale of growing up in a leisurely age.The Little Colonel, Mom Beck, Papa Jack, Old Colonel Lloyd (who bore astriking resemblance to Napoleon) and their companions of Lloydsboro Valleyform an appealing and lively cast for this delightful story.The tranquil setting of the beautiful Kentucky countryside, the timelessgrace and wisdom of the Old Colonel, and the inquisitiveness of the young lassknown as the Little Colonel combine to produce an ageless classic that has beensavored again and again by many generations of young readers.

Solve crimes like a detective, find clues where nobody else would think of looking, trap suspects with their own words, and ignore facts that appear to be significant but are only distractions. Better than a police academy course, all 80 of these simple stories will show you how to find the culprit while everybody else is completely confused. You'll make your town's Christmas merrier when you find out who shot Santa Claus. Figure out which family member poisoned the man of the house while he was watching the Super Bowl, and which housekeeping staffer hid a ruby necklace in a liquor bottle in plain sight. As you explore these fascinating whodunits, you'll enter a bizarre, glamorous, and dangerous world of mobsters, millionaires and heiresses--even detectives themselves. In case you can't outwit the bad guys, just turn to a special section of solutions to each mystery, including an explanation of each clue. Sterling 352 pages, 102 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

Because of an illness in the family that her mother has to attend to, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, is shipped off to boarding school from her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky. During the semester, the Little Colonel becomes friends with Ida Shane, founds a Shadow Club to raise money for the poor, and attends her very first Halloween masquerade. But as the Little Colonel returns home to her loving family and awaits the beginning of the New Year, she learns the most important lesson of her time away at school: absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The childish adventures of Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, come to an endin The Little Colonel�s Knight Comes Riding , the last in the LittleColonel series.After their return to Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky, from Warwick Hall inWashington D.C., the Little Colonel and friends Kitty Walton and Betty Lewisfind that the young boys they have grown up with have matured into gracefulyoung men.The Little Colonel struggles between her desire to still be a child and herdesire to live the life of a sophisticated young woman. But childhood sweetheartRob Moore�s proposal of marriage makes the Little Colonel all the more awareof her developing adult emotions.