\"Rain, rain, go away,\" said Anthea; \"but it never DOES go\" I expect you know how boring it can be to stay indoors on rainy days. it was on one of those dull days that the five children accidentally set their nursery on fire (with fireworks). No one thought that that disastrous day would bring the start of new adventures....

\"As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright\" Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with their friend Laurie next door, and now it\"s time for them to go out and find their places in the big wide world, to do the great and marvellous things they\"ve dre...

\"My dear girls, stop your mud-pies and hear the news!\" Ten years after Little Men, the boys that Jo raised are all grown-up. But that certainly doesn’t mean that they no longer need her help and advice. Emil, now as sailor, must survive shipwreck and disaster. Dan’s attempt to make his fortune ends in prison....

If you love Noel Streatfeild\"s Ballet Shoes,you\"ll adore The Bell Family. \"Well, little people, what\"s the news?\" Meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend, Mother is as kind as kind can be....

Rebecca Solnit retells \"Cinderella\". A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. \"She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...\" In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not being invited to the party....

\"If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be\" When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don\"t imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. But that\"s before they stumble upon a mysterious castle set in beautiful, abandoned gardens....

‘We always allow one pillow-fight Saturday night’ Did you ever wonder what happened to Jo March from Little Women? She grew up, of course, and followed her dream to become a writer. In addition, she opened a school, home to her two children and twelve other boys. There’s accident-prone Tommy, bookish Demi, and greedy Stuffy....

Discover the real story behind Disney’s latest blockbuster adaptation The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and the iconic Nutcracker Christmas ballet, as told by Alexandre Dumas ‘How could you imagine, silly child, that this toy, which is made of cloth and wood, could possibly be alive?...

\"Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He’s a Fattypuff and you’re a Thinifer. There’s no doubt about it!’ This is the tale of two brothers. Edmund is a little on the plump side and Terry is a bit of a rake. When they discover the countries under the Earth they are divided and sent to the warring kingdoms of the Fattypuffs and the Thinifers....

\"Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home, home to his own beloved master...\" The Hunter children must go abroad for the summer, so they reluctantly leave their three pets in the care of a friend. But the faithful animals only know they must get home again, somehow....

You might think I\"d have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I\"m half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my freckles, taunted by a brazen Jersey cow and kept on my toes by the new twins, Dora and Davy, life at Green Gables is just as eventful as ever. I do try to be a little more grown-up now that I\"m a school teacher....

‘It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?’ My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called ‘carrots’ by Gilbert Blythe. My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my bosom-friend Diana, dresses with puff sleeves. My regrets: Dying my hair green....

‘Many years ago – when our grandfathers were little children – there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle’ Dr Dolittle lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his friends Dab-Dab the duck, Jip the dog, Gub-Gub the baby pig, Too-Too the owl, the parrot Polynesia, as well as rabbits in the pantry, white mice in the piano and a crocodile in the fish po...

\"For God\"s sake, hold on!\" On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. He\"s been double-crossed by his wicked uncle, tricked into a sea voyage and sold into slavery....

‘I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one’ Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very hard for Sara Crewe to like her new life at boarding school. Luckily Sara is always dreaming up wonderful things and her power of telling stories wins her lots of friends....