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Heidi (Macmillan Collectors Library) by Johanna Spyri
$19.98 NZD
Category: Gift Books, Classics and Treasuries | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Heidi Johanna SpyriHeidi is a work of fiction written in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi makes use of what she has learned. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young ...Show more
I Capture the Castle (Macmillan Collector's Edition) by Dodie Smith
$19.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
Just So Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
$17.98 NZD
Category: Junior Fiction 5-9-year-olds | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling?s witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant?s Child, the Cat that Walked by H ...Show more
Just William by Richmal Crompton
$19.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books, Classics and Treasuries | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A tousle-headed, snub-nosed, hearty, lovable ball of mischief, William Brown has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting his hundreds of thousands of admirers since 1922. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edge ...Show more
Kim (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
$22.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't until Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama that his life transforms: the old man is on a quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment, and together t ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$19.99 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This Scholastic Classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
$17.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened, impoverished family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle; it follows her development and concludes in early adulthood. Frances "Fanny" Price, at age ten, is sent from her family home to live ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
$17.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books, Classics and Treasuries | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
$17.98 NZD
Category: Gift Books, Classics and Treasuries | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she mo ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sam (AFT) George (ILT); Gilpin Charles; Cruikshank Dickens
$17.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'Look here! Here?s a jolly life! What?s the odds where it comes from??Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you?ll run down the dirty backstreets of London to be entertained by the Respectable Old Gentleman and his brood of thieves ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
$17.98 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Persuasionby Jane AustenAnne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her rest ...Show more
Peter Pan (Macmillan Collector's Library) by J. M. Barrie; Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Gift Books, Classics and Treasuries | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Presented in a beautiful slip-case edition that contains new, full-color illustrations for readers aged 8 and up, J. M. Barrie's best-loved tale of Lost Boys, mermaids, pirates, and a boy who will never grow up will enchant even the oldest child at heart. Wendy knows that all children have to grow u ...Show more