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- The adventures of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- Mary Poppins by PL Travers
- Wind in the willows by Kenneth Graeme
- Peter Pan by J M Barrie
- Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
- Paddington Bear by Michael Bond
- Miffy by Dick Brunna
- Madeline by Bemelmanns
- Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
- Cat in the hat by Dr Seuss
- The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle
- The three robbers by Tomi Ungerer
- Millie Mollie Mandy by Jane Brisley
- Noddy by Enid Blyton
- Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
- What Katy did by Susan Coolidge
- Little women by Louisa May Alcott
- Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson
- Secret garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
- Waterbabies by Charles Kingsley
- Chitty chitty bang bang by Ian Flemming
- Jane Yolen
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Where Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
- I am so strong by Mario Ramos
- Where the wild things are - Maurice Sendak
- The Little Red Hen, Zemach, Margot
- Millions of Cats, Gay, Wanda
- Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
- Angelina Ballerina - Katharine Holabird & Helen Craig
- Harriet the spy - Louise Fitzhugh
- The hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- A bear called Paddington Bear - Michael Bond.
- The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales - Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
- Tikki Tikki Tembo - Arlen Mosel
- The Indian in the cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
- The Coral Island - R.M. Ballantyne
- National Velvet - Enid Bagnold
- Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babitt
- The Snow Queen - Hans Christian Andersen
- Aesop's Fables
- Watership down - Richard Adams
- A dark, dark tale - Ruth Park
- The wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- The Nurse Matilda - Christianna Brand
- A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Little Lord Fautleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The secret garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The lost world - Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Hounds of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
- A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- The secret garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.
- Gulliver’s travels - Jonathan Swift
- The adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
- Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
- What Katy did - Susan Coolidge
- Just so stories - Rudyard Kipling
- Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
- The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Perrault’s Fairy Tales - translated by A.E. Johnson (Wordsworth Classics)
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales - J.L.C & W.C. Grimm
- Tales of King Arthur - edited by Andrew Lang.
- The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley
- Rip van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & other stories - Washington Irving
- Robin Hood - Henry Gilbert
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll
- The Saturdays - Elizabeth Enright
- The Railway Children - E.S. Nesbit
- The enchanted castle - E.S. Nesbit
- Five Children and It - E.S. Nesbit
- The children’s Homer : the adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy - Padraic Colum ; Willy Pogany
- Teddy Robinson Stories - Joan G. Robinson
- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea - Jules Verne
- Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe The man in the iron mask - Alexander Dumas
- The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The mutiny on board HMS Bounty - William Bligh
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Doctor Dolittle’s zoo - Hugh Lofting.
- Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse - Ursula Moray Williams
- Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
- Gobbolino the with’s cat - Ursula Moray Williams
- Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories - Joyce Lankester Brisley
- The call of the wild - Jack London
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Babe: the gallant pig - Dick King-Smith
- The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald.
- Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
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