The perfect gift for any book-lover, this box set contains eight of the best children\"s classics ever written Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork, this would make an ideal Christmas present....

This bedtime collection contains three delightful tales: The Enchanted Doll, Lion Learns a Lesson and Billy and the West Wind, from the pen of Enid Blyton, one of the world\"s best loved storytellers....

When Princess Irene and her nursemaid stay out too late one night and are chased home by goblins, a young miner boy called Curdie comes to their rescue. So begins a fantastic adventure in which Irene and Curdie must try to stop a goblin invasion, helped by Irene\"s mysterious great-great-grandmother....

In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again....

Heidi is the heart-warming tale of a small girl\"s power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was published over 100 years ago. It tells of the orphan Heidi and her idyllic existence with her gruff grandfather in the mountains....

In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress....

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook....

Translated by Mary Alice Murray. The story of the walking and talking puppet Pinocchio is one of the best-loved children\"s tales of all time. Carved by old Gepetto, Pinocchio has an enormous nose which grows even longer whenever he tells a lie. Pinocchio is such a scamp that he gets into all sorts of mischief....

Its eyes were on long horns like a snail\"s eyes… it had ears like a bat\"s ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider\"s and covered with thick, soft fur… and it had hands and feet like a monkey\"s. \"It\" was the Psammead, the grumpy sand-fairy that could, if in the mood, grant a wish a day....

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame\"s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger, and the preposterous Mr....

The Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb were written to be an 'introduction to the study of Shakespeare', but are much more entertaining than that....

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham....

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their mother have to move from their comfortable London home to go and live in a simple country cottage, where Mother writes books to make ends meet....

The beautiful Scheherazade\"s royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by w^eaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending on the morrow. This is the background to the Arabian Nights....

Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told....