Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing,   but poverty has its sunny side . . .”  It’s Christmas time . . .   The March family has fallen on bad times after the father lost their money. The four March sisters—the nearly perfect ‘little woman’ Meg, the tomboyish Jo, the shy but wise Beth, and the artist of the family Amy—are planning to brighten up their Christmas by buying presents while their father is away, fighting the Civil...

Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught. One day Mrs. Rabbit sent her children out to pick blackberries. She warned them to stay away from Mr. McGregor's garden.

"Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" Repetitive rhymes and fun illustrations help tell the classic tale of "The Gingerbread Man." With raisin eyes, a cherry mouth, and nuts for buttons, an old woman makes a gingerbread man for her husband's supper. When the gingerbread man hops out of the oven and runs across their farm the adventure begins. Find out what happens when the gingerbread man meets a sly fox. Simple...

A simplified retelling of ten-year-old Mary coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovering an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Princess and the Pea', first published in May of 1835. This classic fairy tale has been continuously in print in different editions since its first publication, with many, many, different artists illustrating the story over the years. This edition features a beautiful collection of the best of that art, taken from the likes of Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson,...

Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry little girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep.

A retelling of the traditional tale in which a wicked fairy, enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

Texto repetitivo y bellas ilustraciones ayudan a contar el cuento clásico de "Blancanieves." Cuando la gentil madre de Blancanieves muere, su padre se casa con una reina malvada quien es muy celosa de la belleza de Blancanieves. ¿Qué pasará cuando Blancanieves es llevada al bosque y se conoce a siete enanos adorables? Disfrazandose como una anciana, la rein ava al bosque y le da a blancanieves una manzana venenosa. Descubre cómo un príncipe...

Simple text and beautiful illustrations help tell the classic tale of "Cinderella." Find out what happens after Cinderella's evil stepmother and stepsisters go to the ball to meet the Prince. When Cinderella's fairy godmother appears and magically dresses her in a golden gown with glass slippers, Cinderella is ready to attend the ball herself. But what will happen when the clock strikes midnight? A happy ending adds interest to this fairy tale and...

Repetitive text and beautiful illustrations help tell the classic tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk." When Jack goes to the market to sell the family cow for money, he returns home instead with five magic beans. His mother is so angry she throws the beans out of the window. What happens the next morning when Jack discovers a giant beanstalk and climbs to the top to find a magical castle? The adventure continues when Jack learns that the Giant living...