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Narnia is the land of enchantment, glory, nobility--home to the magnificent Aslan, cruel
Jadis (the White Queen), heroic Reepicheep, and kind Mr. Tumnus. All the magic of C.S.
Lewis's Narnia, bewitching readers for almost 50 years, is captured for...Read more
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"[Mole] thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along,
suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river
before--this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling,...Read more
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What on earth is a Whangdoodle? A "fanciful creature of undefined nature," it
was also once the wisest, kindest, most fun-loving living thing in the world--until people
stopped believing in it. When that lack of faith became widespread, the...Read more
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"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments.
"[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth
seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to...Read more
The Jungle
Books
by Rudyard Kipling, Bradley Clark (Illustrator)
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No child should be allowed to grow up without reading The Jungle Books. Published
in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life and intensity as ever. Rudyard
Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the...Read more
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Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively
among us will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal
winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has...Read more
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Claudia is bored. She's ready for a big change, but wants to make sure she does it with
style. When she decides to run away, Claudia plans to be a runaway with specific goals: to
be comfortable, to be changed, and to be appreciated at home. She...Read more
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For the first time in a decade, Willy Wonka, the reclusive and eccentric chocolate maker,
is opening his doors to the public--well, five members of the public to be exact. The
lucky five who find a Golden Ticket in their Wonka chocolate bars will...Read more
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Everyone in town thinks Meg Murry is volatile and dull-witted, and that her younger
brother, Charles Wallace, is dumb. People are also saying that their physicist father has
run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these...Read more
Children's
Books Editor's Recommended Book
Edward Eager has been delighting young readers for more than 40 years with stories that
mix magic and reality. Half Magic, the most popular of his tales about four
children who encounter magical coins, time-travel herb gardens, and other unlikely...Read more
The Secret
Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha Tudor (Illustrator)
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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she
manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two
are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the...Read more
Well-Loved Classics
