After Mary Lennox’s parent pass away, she is sent to a large, isolated house in Yorkshire to live with an uncle she has never met. Ill-tempered, obstinate Mary dislikes her new home, but when she finds the key to a locked garden she realises there are fascinating secrets waiting to be uncovered at Misselthwaite Manor. With the help of new friends, Mary resolves to bring the neglected garde…
Inspired by the bedtime Rudyard Kipling told his daughter that had to be recited ‘just so’, this collection includes the camel’s hump and elephant’s long trunk, together with other playful inventions, such as the reason for the ebb and flow of the tides and the creation of the alphabet. These rhythmically written traditional tales appeal to the curious imagination of children and are…
Headache? Tummy troubles? A patient could not hope for a better doctor than John Dolittle, MD, of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh — not if one searched the entire kingdom — the animal kingdom, that is. Whether curing a horse in need of spectacles or a poodle that has eaten too much cake, Doctor Dolittle knows just the thing to do because he can, in fact, ask them. Creatures come from far and wide …
Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare’s historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast. Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charimastically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino. Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard III rem…
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional character ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventure in crime! Volum…
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional character ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventure in crime! Volum…
Bracket Wood School Notices Bracket Wood is about to be visited by the school inspectors. And there’s one BIG PROBLEM: Ryan Ward. The naughtiest kid in school. But when Ryan finally goes too far the head teacher just … walk out. And then the the new head teacher, Mr Carter, arrives. A man so strict even the teachers are afraid of him. So imagine his surprise when they swap bodies. N…