"When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas books, including The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket (1845). Each book was published at the same time of year, in the same format, and extolled similar values about the virtues of love, charity and the family unit. But none would achieve the cult status of A Christmas Carol, a book so popular it has become part...

"Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, wanted to adopt a boy. Matthew needed someone to help him with the chores on their farm, and they sent word to town to have the orphanage send them a boy. What they got instead was a skinny, freckled-faced, eleven-year-old girl with a head full of dreams."--BOOK JACKET.

Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

The adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Includes songs of the animals.

A wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.