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Illustrator: Reginald B. Birch

A groom promises to be at the church on time, even if he has to come back from the grave to do it.A man inherits a property where he discovers a portrait of a woman that will change his life forever.Two newlyweds find their dream country cottage, unaware of an ancient curse from the previous owners.A gripping, unsettling and utterly chilling collection of short stories from one of Britain''s best loved storytellers.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a legendary childrens story by the enchanting E. Nesbit which has delighted countless generations of children; this brand new edition ensures that it will be able to reach a whole new modern audience. The Bastable children (Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius - H.O.) live in London with their widowed father. Too poor to attend school, the children are left to their own devices and they spend their days coming up with ingenious plans to restore their fathers fortune. Told from the first person perspective - which lends the narrative substantial bias - The Story of the Treasure Seekers was Nesbits first work. Refreshingly free of Victorian sentimentality, yet still wonderfully evocative of a bygone era, The Story of the Treasure Seekers makes for timeless reading. Adapted numerous times for television, The Story of the Treasure Seekers is proof of Nesbits esteemed place in the canon of childrens literature.

When Roberta, Peter and Phylliss father is taken away and they move to a tiny cottage in the countryside, the only advantage is the nearby railway. Join them on their adventures as they befriend all those who work with the trains, prevent a railway disaster and try to discover the truth behind their fathers disappearance.The Railway Children, a much-loved childrens classic, was first published in 1906 and has never been out of print.

Blake, the beloved illustrator of most of Roald Dahl's popular children's books, delivers the Introduction to this repackaged edition of Nesbit's class tale of five children and their pet--an ancient

Illus.: H.R. Millar

El dragón del mar de caramelo: la ofrenda de un rey al dragón hace que en Plurimiregia esté vacante siempre este puesto hasta que Billy acepta el trabajo. El dragón y la mantícora: aunque es rey, a Leonardo la lectura de un libro prohibido le traera mas de un susto. El dragon domesticado: domesticar un dragon no es suficiente, hay que ser astuto con un alcalde avaricioso. El dragon de fuego: si hay un dragon de por medio, hasta un porquero puede casarse con una princesa. El dragon morado: que en Rotundia las cosas sean al reves se debe a un giro de rotacion invertido; solo la hazaña para rescatar a la princesa del dragon trastoco el orden anterior. El dragon de hielo: no le conviene a un dragon del Polo Norte acercarse a una hoguera. La isla de los nueve remolinos: la astucia y el calculo pueden romper un encantamiento. Edmundo y el basilisco: no hay manera de que los mayores crean a los pequeños, aunque estos hayan salvado a toda una ciudad de un dragon. La invasion de dragones: solo con el cambio climatologico se puede acabar con una plaga de dragones. El ultimo dragon: nos hemos empeñado en que los dragones son terribles, cuando en realidad lo unico que necesitan es un poco de cariño.

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home, they make an unexpected and very curious discovery. The gravel pit is home to a Psammead, a sand fairy. This ugly creature has eyes like a snail, ears like a bat and the body of a spider, and is very grumpy indeed. He grants the children one wish every day, and though they are excited to have all their desires fulfilled, they soon realize that having one's wishes come true can have unexpected consequences...E. Nesbit's much loved children's tale has enchanted generations of readers, and has been adapted for the screen numerous times - most notably by the BBC in a hugely popular 1990s series. It remains one of the most cherished children's classics ever written, and an indispensable part of every young reader's library.

Part of the Collector''s Library series, this book''s Afterword is by the experienced book editor and well-known writer, Anna South. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their parents. Then, suddenly, their father goes away. The children and their mother move to a smaller house near a railway line. Exciting things happen, and they make new friends. But where is their father? When is he coming home?

E. Nesbit Adapted by Elizabeth Ann Moore Adventure After their father is mysteriously forced to leave home, the three children and their mother leave their comfortable house in London and go to live in a cottage in the country near a railway track. The children soon make friends with the Station Master, the Porter and a friendly old gentleman, who waves to them from the morning train. Peter, Bobbie and Phyllis enjoy several exciting adventures and even become the heroes of the village. But the mystery of their father remains unsolved, until one day... Dossier: Early railways Exit test

When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little things such as a child may find and use. But as I kept the thought by me it grew and changed, as thoughts will do, until at last it took shape as an attempt to contribute something, however small and unworthy, to the science of building a magic city in the soul of a child, a city built of all things pure and fine and beautiful. As you read, it will, I hope, seem to you that something of what I say is truein much, no doubt, it will seem to you that I am mistaken; but however you may disagree with me, you will, I trust, at least have faith in the honesty of my purpose. If I seem to you to be too dogmatic, to lay down the law too much as though I were the teacher and you the learner, I beg you to believe that it is in no such spirit that I have written. Rather it is as though you and I, spending a quiet evening[viii] by your fire, talked together of the things that matter, and as though I laid before you all the things that were in my heartnot stopping at every turn to say "Do you not think so too?" and "I hope you agree with me?" but telling you, straight from the heart, what I have felt and thought and, I humbly say, known about children and the needs of children. I have talked to you as to a friend, without the reservations and apologies which we use with strangers. And if, in anything, I shall have offended you, I entreat you to extend to me the forgiveness and the forbearance which you would exercise towards a friend who had offended you, not meaning to offend, and to believe that I have spoken to you as frankly and plainly as I would wish you to speak to me, were you the writer and I the reader.E. Nesbit.