Nearly a century old, this tale follows three kids whose middle-class life is upended when their father needs to leave town unexpectedly. Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis uproot their lives in London to fo..
Margery Williams (sometimes known as Margery Williams Bianco) wrote and William Nicholson illustrated the British children's book The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real). The book tells the tal..
Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's tale about a naughty and disobedient young rabbit who wanders into Mr. McGregor's garden and is chased about it. After he gets away, he goes b..
Rudyard Kipling published his collection of stories The Jungle Book in 1894. Poems connect the stories in The Second Jungle Book, which was released in 1895.
The majority of the tales centre on Mow..
Greek mythology are retold in Padraic Colum's children's book The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles. The book with illustrations by Willy Pogany was released in 1921 and was given..
Henry James's The Turn of the Screw was published as a serial in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York and Heinemann in London in Octob..
Published in 1908, The Wind in the Willows is a collection of stories about animals written by British author Kenneth Grahame. A classic of English children's literature, the book is renowned for its ..