The Strange Story Book

The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children’s short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those stories he had not included in other collections. In the preface, she pays tribute to her husband, saying he liked old things more than new, he loved all beasts’ because they were beasts’, fairies, cricket and dancing. He longed to visit far away places, but hated to travel. But most of all he befriended children wherever he went and they shared stories with him. Only his own children mocked him

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Sentimental Tommy

Sentimental Tommy by J. M. Barrie

Sentimental Tommy by J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tommy novels, as they are collectively referred to, are also about a child who does not want to grow up. Yet, unlike Peter Pan, he has to. Tommy grows up in the slums of London at the end of the 19th century in difficult conditions. This book explores his boyhood. How would his childhood fantasies collide with the hard conditions in which he lives and the reality of his growing up? The Tommy novels are considered semi-autobiographical.

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The Cambridge Book of Poetry For Children

The Cambridge Book of Poetry For Children

The Cambridge Book of Poetry For Children

A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame.

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