CHILDHOOD CLASSICS - Ultimate Collection: 1400+ Tales of Magic, Adventure, Fairytales & Legends : Peter Rabbit, Pinocchio, Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild…

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the most-beloved and enjoyed children's classics of all time. We include the educational classics retold for children, but also - the eternally enchanting tales of dragons, magical creatures, fantastic adventures and animal stories:

Dragon Tales:

The Reluctant Dragon

My Father's Dragon

The Book of Dragons

Animal Tales & Fables:

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny…

Mother West Wind Series

The Burgess Bird Book for Children

The Burgess Animal Book for Children

The Velveteen Rabbit

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales

Little Bun Rabbit

Mother Goose in Prose

Lulu's Library

The Jungle Book…

White Fang

Black Beauty

The Story of Doctor Dolittle…

Aesop Fables

The Panchatantra

Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones

The Russian Garland: Folk Tales

Fairy tales & Fantasies:

Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm

Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang

Five Children and It…

Peter Pan

Alice in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Collection

At the Back of the North Wind

The Princess and the Goblin

Tanglewood Tales…

All the Way to Fairyland

Friendly Fairies…

Old Peter's Russian Tales

Childhood Adventures:

Robin Hood

Pinocchio

Gingerbread Man

Little Women

The Secret Garden

A Little Princess

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Treasure Island…

Anne of Green Gables Collection…

The Wind in the Willows

The Box-Car Children

The Railway Children

Oliver Twist

David Copperfield…

Classics Retold:

The Iliad of Homer

Odysseus

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Viking Tales

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table

Chaucer for Children

Tales from Shakespeare

Don Quixote

The Pilgrim's Progress

Robinson Crusoe

Voyage to Lilliput

Little Goody Two-Shoes & Mrs Margery Two-Shoes

Charles Dickens' Children Stories

The Story of Hiawatha

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Pocahontas

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Louisa May Alcott

Lewis Carroll

Kenneth Grahame

Beatrix Potter

Thornton Burgess

Margery Williams

L. Frank Baum

Rudyard Kipling

Hugh Lofting

Hans Christian Andersen

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oscar Wilde

Johnny Gruelle

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Anna Sewell

Jack London

Howard Pyle

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