The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunt...więcej »
Father Christmas is missing on the busiest night of the year! Will he be found in time for the sleep before Christmas?This seasonal lift-the-flap adventure features sturdy, durable flap...więcej »
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the ...więcej »
Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent yo...więcej »
An adorable new story in the no.1 bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series, written specifically to help little ones settle down for bedtime and a perfect book for children with new siblings.więcej »
This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory ...więcej »
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark sti...więcej »
In this beautifully packaged anthology A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon...więcej »
Water World is the stunning new book from Ben Rothery, author of Hidden Planet and Sensational Butterflies.Life on Earth is shaped by water, and only survives here because of it, but ou...więcej »
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil...więcej »
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal P...więcej »
Pedro Pony is having a superhero birthday party and Peppa is invited. But who will is the special guest?Lift the flaps to find out all the hilarious things that happen at a superhero bi...więcej »
Discover all sorts of construction vehicles in this bright, fun pop-up book!With sturdy pop-ups, playful illustrations and simple text, young children will love exploring this book as a...więcej »
Peppa, George and Grandpa Pig are visiting the zoo and discovering all the wonderful animals!Stroke Mr Lion's fluffy mane, poke the penguin's squashy tummy and touch a very bumpy tortoi...więcej »
Calm your own sleepy dragon and count down to bedtime with this new board book edition of Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dragon, part of the no. 1 bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series.Soari...więcej »
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...więcej »
The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they w...więcej »
This story of two spoilt and lonely children, whose happiness is regained as they bring to life a neglected garden, has become the best-loved of all Mrs. Burnett's books, but it did not acquire uni...więcej »
Baron Munchausen’s absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller’s tales soon became as wel...więcej »
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis St...więcej »
