The 'Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection' brings together a monumental array of over 1400 works, casting a wide net over the landscape of children's literature. This anthology encompasses a broad range of themes from whimsical fairy tales to profound moral lessons, delivered through a diverse array of literary styles including fantasy, realism, and fables. Embedded within this vast compilation are seminal pieces that have sculpted the genre over centuries, from the magical adventures conjured by Lewis Carroll to the poignant narratives crafted by Hans Christian Andersen, each contributing uniquely to this rich tapestry. The collection offers an unparalleled tour through the varied contours of children's storytelling, highlighting its significance in shaping young minds and imaginations. The contributing authors and editors, including legends such as Beatrix Potter, Mark Twain, and Rudyard Kipling, come from diverse backgrounds and epochs, illustrating the evolution and enduring appeal of children's literature. They collectively represent crucial movements and periods, such as Victorian moral tales, American frontier adventures, and the enchanting worlds of European folklore. This anthology not only mirrors the historical and cultural shifts witnessed over centuries but also showcases how these narratives have universally addressed the trials and aspirations of growing up, thus enriching our understanding of common human values and experiences. 'Readers of 'The Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection' are afforded a unique opportunity to explore the multitudes of perspectives and stylistic evolutions within the realm of children's literature. This compilation serves both as an educational tool and a treasure trove of the world's most beloved children's tales, inviting one to delve into old favorites and undiscovered gems alike. It's an essential volume for libraries, scholars, and anyone keen on revisiting the formative narratives that continue to influence generations of readers and thinkers.
The Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection: 1400+ Titles in One Book : Novels, Stories, Fantasy Classics, Fables, Fairytales, Adventures & Legends
Authors:
- Beatrix Potter
- E. Nesbit
- Kenneth Grahame
- Thornton Burgess
- Margery Williams
- Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Howard R. Garis
- L. Frank Baum
- Louisa May Alcott
- Rudyard Kipling
- Hugh Lofting
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Vishnu Sharma
- Aesop
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Brothers Grimm
- Andrew Lang
- J. M. Barrie
- Lewis Carroll
- George MacDonald
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Oscar Wilde
- Evelyn Sharp
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Georgette Leblanc
- John Ruskin
- Carl Sandburg
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Johnny Gruelle
- Carlo Collodi
- George Haven Putnam
- Johanna Spyri
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Emerson Hough
- Eleanor H. Porter
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Dorothy Canfield
- Susan Coolidge
- Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Mark Twain
- R. L. Stevenson
- John Meade Falkner
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Charles Lamb
- Mary Lamb
- Jonathan Swift
- Miguel Cervantes
- Daniel Defoe
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Anna Sewell
- Jack London
- E. Boyd Smith
- Jennie Hall
- Howard Pyle
- Marion John St. Webb
- Jules Verne
- Eva March Tappan
- W. R. S. Ralston
- Arthur Ransome
Format:
Duration:
- 16390 pages
Language:
English
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Illustrated Edition)
Beatrix Potter
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The Beatrix Potter's Cat & Mouse Tales
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Classic Short Stories for Children : The Best Collection of Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables and Bedtime Stories for Kids. Have a Relaxing Night's Sleep with Beautiful Dreams!
Kids Club, Jacob & Wihelm Grimm, Andrew Lang, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen
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10 Rare Beatrix Potter Tales
Beatrix Potter
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The Complete Works of Beatrix Potter
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin illustrated
Beatrix Potter
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The Tale of Two Bad Mice illustrated
Beatrix Potter
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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies illustrated
Beatrix Potter
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The Tale of Mr. Tod illustrated
Beatrix Potter
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The Tale of Ginger and Pickles illustrated
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit illustrated
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Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
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Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for one of the all-time classics of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows, as well as for The Reluctant Dragon.
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Thornton Burgess
Thornton Waldo Burgess, naturalist and conservationist, loved the beauty of nature and its living creature so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers.
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Margery Williams
Margery Williams Bianco was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 publication of the classic that is her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit.
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L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856. Over the course of his life, Baum raised fancy poultry, sold fireworks, managed an opera house, opened a department store, and an edited a newspaper before finally turning to writing. In 1900, he published his best known book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eventually he wrote fifty-five novels, including thirteen Oz books, plus four “lost” novels, eighty-three short stories, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. Baum died on May 6, 1919. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is best known for Little Women (1868), which is loosely based on her own life and proved to be one of the most popular children’s books ever written. Three sequels followed: Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo’s Boys (1886). Alcott was the daughter of the famous transcendentalist Bronson Alcott and was friend of Emerson and Thoreau. In addition to writing, she worked as a teacher, governess, and Civil War nurse, as well as being an advocate of abolition, women’s rights, and temperance. She died in 1888 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. One of the most revered writers in recent history, many of his works are deemed classic literature. To this day, he maintains an avid following and reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of the past two centuries. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1936, but his stories live on—even eighty years after his passing.
Read more - 100 books
Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting (January 1886–September 1947) was a British author who created the beloved and timeless character of Doctor Dolittle. His stories have inspired several major motion pictures over the last sixty years, and many household names—including Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr.—have taken on the titular role. He is also the author of several other books for children.
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Hans Christian Andersen
One of the most prolific and beloved writers of all time, Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen is best known for his fairy tales. Born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805, Andersen published his first story at 17. In all, he wrote more than 150 stories before his death in 1875.
Read more - 165 books
J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
Read more - 541 books
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is especially remembered for bringing to life the beloved and long-revered tale of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer. His work centres on his New England home and often features moral allegories with Puritan inspiration, with themes revolving around inherent good and evil. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.
Read more - 1128 books
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 and died on the 30th November 1900. He was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Johnny Gruelle
Johnny Gruelle was an extremely talented cartoonist, illustrator, and storyteller. He had already written and illustrated a book of original fairy tales before creating the Raggedy Ann and Andy stories. Raggedy Ann, heroine of the first book, was a favorite doll of his daughter, Marcella, who died after a long illness at the age of thirteen. Johnny Gruelle eventually created over forty Raggedy Ann and Andy books, all capturing his unique version of childhood.
Read more - 284 books
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was born in Manchester, England, but moved to America as a teenager. A gifted writer from childhood, Burnett took to writing as a means of supporting her family, creating stories for Lady’s Book, Harper’s Bazaar, and other magazines. Though she began writing novels for adults, she gained lasting success writing for children. She is best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1855–1856), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Read more - 57 books
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856–August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children’s stories, most notably the classic children’s novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She devoted her adult life to the welfare of children and worked closely with her sister, Nora A. Smith.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
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R. L. Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born of English descent in Dublin, Ireland in 1667. He went to school at Trinity College in Ireland, before moving to England at the age of 22. After a short stint in the Anglican Church, he began his career as a writer, satirizing religious, political, and educational institutions. He wrote in defense of the Irish people, especially in his A Modest Proposal, which made him a champion of his people. His most famous work is Gulliver’s Travels which was published anonymously in 1726.
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Miguel Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish writer known for his novels, plays, and poems. He is the author of Don Quixote and is one of the most recognized writers in Spanish literature.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American abolitionist and author of more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a realistic account of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.
Read more - 70 books
Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell, an English Quaker, (1820-1878), wrote only one novel in her lifetime, Black Beauty.
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Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer. His most notable works include White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea-Wolf. He was born in San Francisco, California.
Read more - 152 books
Howard Pyle
The work of American illustrator and author Howard Pyle (1853–1911) has appeared in more than 3,500 publications, and in his lifetime, he became one of the country's most famous illustrators. On his death in 1911, the New York Times called Pyle "the father of American magazine illustration as it is known to-day." He is best known for his 1883 novel, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a prolific French author whose writing about various innovations and technological advancements laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction. Verne’s love of travel and adventure, including his time spent sailing the seas, inspired several of his short stories and novels.
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