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The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
$12.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include The Happy Prince, who was not as happy as he seemed; The Selfish Giant, who learned to love little children; and The Star Child, who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Green Puffin Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Green Puffin Classics Ser.
The classic story of friendship between man and beast. Young Mowgli escapes the vicious jaws of the growling tiger Shere Khan, and is adopted by Father Wolf. As he grows up, Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle, and so his extraordinary adventures begin . . . The ad ...Show more
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
$26.00 NZD
$30.00 (13% off)
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A stunning hardback gift edition of one of the world's most beloved stories. The timeless, enchanting story of the little prince who lives on a tiny planet with three volcanoes and a haughty flower, which he must protect from the baobabs, the bad seeds. The rulers of the other planets he visits all suff ...Show more
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle; Ian Newsham (Illustrator)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Nobody loves Mary - the heroine of the famous story of Francis Burnett "The Secret Garden". However, she does not burn with love for others, and moreover - she can not stand the whole world. And then her parents are passing away prematurely. There is an impression that nothing good can happen to her in ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$35.00 NZD
$36.00 (2% off)
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her rec ...Show more
The Tale of Troy (Puffin Classics) by Roger Lancelyn Green
$25.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
The story of Helen and the judgement of Paris, of the gathering Heroes and the seige of Troy; of Achilles and his vulnerable heel, reared by the Centaur on wild honey and the marrow of lions; of Odysseus, the last of the Heroes, his plan for the wooden Horse and his many adventures on his long journey h ...Show more
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
$10.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
When Tom, an ill-treated little chimney-sweep, jumps into a clear, cool stream to clean himself something magical happens; he is turned into a tiny water baby by the fairies. He enters a strange, magical underwater world, and travels beyond the world's end to the other end-of-nowhere. It is a voyage of ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
$19.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame is an English classic loved by adults and children alike. The much-loved classic tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures on the river an ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest readers Bedtime Classics introduce classic works of fiction to little literary scholars through character-driven narratives and colorful illustration. Designed to be the perfect one minu ...Show more
Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
$9.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass, everything is distorted.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
$34.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A stunningly beautiful clothbound hardback edition of one of the most famous adventure stories in the world. Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Isl ...Show more