Children's classics

A merchant’s daughter enters a frightening beast’s palace after her father makes a rash promise.

Children, strangers and people under spells face magical dangers and tests of kindness in these fairy tales.

A girl follows a rabbit into a world of changing sizes and rules that refuse to hold.

Four sisters grow up with different hopes while their father serves during the American Civil War.

Alice steps through a mirror into a chessboard country, becoming a pawn who might become queen.

A horse tells his own story, showing how different owners bring kindness or cruelty into his life.

An orphan girl’s life among Alpine goats and pastures changes when she leaves her mountain home.

Jim Hawkins joins a voyage for buried treasure, bringing a child’s viewpoint to danger among pirates.

A wooden puppet comes to life, then finds danger while chasing freedom and ignoring advice.

Two lookalike boys exchange clothes and find themselves mistaken for each other, crossing royal and poor lives.

A boy raised by wolves learns jungle rules among animals facing dangers and duties of their own.

Dorothy’s search for home takes her through a magical land after a cyclone carries her away.

Animals gain their familiar features in tales that imagine a world still taking its shape.

Three young pigs build houses from different materials, then face the threat of a hungry wolf.

A schoolgirl’s fall from wealth into poverty makes imagination central to this boarding school story.

Three children move to a country cottage and find railway adventures after their father disappears.

Children exploring an old house’s grounds discover a magic ring that turns their wishes into trouble.

An orphan girl arrives at an island farm where her new guardians had expected a boy.

Mole discovers boating and friendship along an English river in this story of four animal friends.

A lonely girl’s discovery of a locked garden brings friendship into this story of childhood.

Wendy and her brothers leave their nursery for Neverland, where children fight pirates and play at family.

A village doctor learns animal languages and turns his care toward creatures rather than human patients.

Brief verses turn words into games, pairing small stories with the nonsense of traditional nursery rhymes.

Mermaids, children and talking objects face difficult choices in tales shaped by their wishes and troubles.

Animals and people boast, quarrel and outwit each other in short tales about choices and consequences.