Books

Old flan Post, who couldn't tolerate home, family life, or farmin'. He turned his back on all three when fate burned down his house and killed his wife.

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Mr. Fox goes hunting with his bag … but the bag ends up hunting him.

From the day Paddington was discovered on a railway platform in London, he was seldom far from imminent disaster … but it always seemed to turn into hilarious fun.

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Three children are invited to spend the summer at Green Knowe - they must be able to swim - and explore the river.

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Should she stay? Should she go?

On Noah’s Ark, it’s time for bed.

Nicki drops one of his new white mittens in the snow. The animals crawl into it to keep warm, until … someone sneezes!

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When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. With them are four babies.

Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.

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Heathcliff, the antihero, gets revenge on the people who kept him away from his love, Cathy Earnshaw. After over a decade, he gains Thrushcross Grange, the family home of Cathy's husband.

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Jane is abused as a child by her aunt and at school and develops a philosophy of radical self-centeredness. One of the first modern novels.

Three soldiers arrive at a town intending to make soup with a stone. In the end the whole town enjoys a feast with them.

“The finest fire is the fire that’s out,” sing the five little firemen. Later editions have fewer pages.

A bunny going to bed says goodnight to his room.

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The Pied Piper pipes all the rats out of an ungrateful town. He then pipes all the children out as a result.

A young Scot goes out to South Africa where he becomes caught up in a native rebellion. This is a later American edition.

This is the story of a cruise after sperm whales by a member of the crew. The scan is of an early reprinting. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Originally a short story, then made into a play, this is a more developed story of the orphan girl left at a boarding school who is reduced to servitude, then rescued by a friend of her father’s. Read online at archive.org.

An Anglo-Indian orphan girl and and an English invalid find their cure in a garden.

A yellow lab, an ancient bull terrier and a Siamese cat make their way home across two hundred and fifty miles of Canadian wilderness.