By With An Introduction And Reader''s Companion By Lemony Snicket Dino Buzzati - $8.50 - add to cart

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Dino Buzzati's forgotten classic is a subversive fairy tale replete with ageless humour, heroic bears, haunted castles, and rollicking verse. Lemony Snicket-approved and a good deal more fun tha...

By Barbara Bottner - $8.99 - add to cart

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"My mother and Bootsie Barker's mother are best friends," begins the diminutive narrator of this uproariously illustrated story. Bootsie stops short of actually biting, but she bares her teeth in a...

By Blue Balliett - $9.99 - add to cart

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When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an internatio...

By Jeanne Duprau - $7.00 - add to cart

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Citizens of Ember shall be assigned work at twelve years of age. . . Lina Mayfleet desperately wants to be a messenger. Instead, she draws the dreaded job of Pipeworks laborer, which means she'l...

By Ted Hughes - $20.00 - add to cart

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This collection brings together the more than 250 children’s poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his career. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those published for younger readers and progre...

By Jeanne Willis - $11.95 - add to cart

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All the young wild animals think Bat is mad. How can she say a tree has the trunk at the top and the leaves at the bottom? Until, that is, they consult wise Owl who suggests that if they just try l...

By Neil Gaiman And Dave Mckean - $9.99 - add to cart

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"I'll swap you my Dad," I said. "Oh-Oh," said my little sister. What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father? What if your moth...

By Sylviane Donnio - $17.95 - add to cart

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A scrawny little crocodile wants the opportunity to bite off more than he can chew. He's tired of bananas; today he'd like to eat a child. But he's smaller than he thinks, and the little girl he ch...

By Trina Schart Hyman - $7.95 - add to cart

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Re-read this beloved fairy tale with new eyes as the vulnerability of a lost little girl and the perfidy of the treacherous wolf, not to mention the goodness of the passing hunter spring to life i...

By Brian Jacques - $11.95 - add to cart

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Right from the start of this rousingly old-fashioned prequel to Redwall , readers will submerge themselves in the culture of the woodlanders and their council, the Corim, against the wicked Kotir. ...

By Maria P Robbins - $8.00 - add to cart

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"A CLASSIC BEDTIME STORY gets a well-earned reissue with handsome new art. Mrs. Mouse tucks baby mouse in and gives him a goodnight kiss - then, responding to his request for 'another, mother,' she...

By Daniel Pinkwater - $18.50 - add to cart

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The old powers try to come back, and the planet is plunged into chaos, and civilization is destroyed, and it gets all violent and evil...the old legends tell that a hero...with the sacred turtle, a...

By Bill Peet - $8.95 - add to cart

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It would take a frightfully boring child to resist the welcome suspension of disbelief offered by the most amusing assortment of fauna ever presented on paper in Bill Peet's No Such Things. The a...

By Nancy Werlin - $7.99 - add to cart

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For Matt and his sisters, life with their cruel, vicious mother is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But then Matt witnesses Murdoch coming to a child's rescue in a convenience store, and for the...

By Fiona French - $15.95 - add to cart

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Astonishing pictures highlight this sophisticated book about a classy New York dame named Snow White. Her troubles come when her father marries the Queen of the Underworld, who resents Snow White's...