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The Greenland Farers
Alan Boucher. 1st edition. 1961.
A tale of the 11th century Viking seafarers from Iceland and Greenland.
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Bevis
Richard Jefferies. 1955.
The true story of Richard Jefferies' youth, in which he played imaginatively on and around the reservoir at Coate near Swindon.
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Loic Francoeur, Le Roi de Coeur
Bernard Capo. 1988.
A graphic novel, in French, a genre very popular in France.
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L'Oeuf et les Schtroumpfs
Peyo. 1978.
Improve your French by reading about the Smurfs in their original language.
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The Golden Age
Kenneth Grahame. circa 1938.
Not a book for children, but a book about them, and when written, was far more popular with Grahame's contemporaries than 'The Wind in the Willows'.
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My Dearest Mouse - 'The Wind in the Willows' Letters
Kenneth Grahame. 1st edition. 1988.
Letters written to Kenneth Grahame's son, Alastair, which were to become the draft for the future 'Wind in the Willows'.
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The Monster Party
Stephanie Laslett. 1996.
A spooky story, told with the aid of holograms.
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A Scary Story
Peter Bailey. 1993.
A picture book about ghost hunting, simply told and delightfully frightening.
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A Whiff of Burnt Boats
Geoffrey Trease. 1st Thus edition. 2009.
The first part of Geoffrey Trease's autobiography, in which he abandons his Oxford scholarship in order to become a free-lance writer.
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The Return of Robinson Crusoe
Henry Treece. 1st edition. 1958.
A sequel to 'Robinson Crusoe', written by the acclaimed writer of historical fiction, Henry Treece.
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Gumbles in Summer
S. A. Wakefield. 1st Thus edition. 1984.
The third book in the 'Bottersnikes and Gumbles' sequence, very funny, thought by some to be a satire on the Australian political system.
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya
Yan Larry. 1st edition. 1945.
An unusual fantasy, set in the U.S.S.R., during the Stalinist era, written in 1945.
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The Magic Pudding; Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum
Norman Lindsay. 1st Puffin edition. 1957.
The first Puffin edition of this famous Australian classic.
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The Indian Story Book
Richard Wilson. 1914.
Tales from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, retold by Richard Wilson and illustrated by Frank Pape.
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The Crock of Gold
James Stephens. 1934.
An attractive edition of this once famous book.
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The Beano Book 1975
1974
Everyone's favourite annual.
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell. Reprint edition. 1987.
An abridged version of this famous classic illustrated by Charles Keeping.
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The Borribles
Michael de Larrabeiti. 1st edition. 1976.
A strange fantasy about feral children, who swarm all over London.
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The Tailor of Gloucester
Beatrix Potter. Reprint edition. 1965.
A Christmas story of cats and mice.
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Where is Susan
Jane Shaw. 1st edition. 1968.
One of the more difficult to find titles in the 'Susan' series.
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