children’s

The Wind in the Willows

Children’s book by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternatingly slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Rat , Toad, and Badger

Johnny Tremain

Work of historical fiction written in 1943 by Esther Forbes that is set in Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution

Little Fur Family

1946 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Garth Williams

A Little Princess

Children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story “Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s”, which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with “the things and people that had been left out before”. The novel was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time.

The Secret Garden

Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine . Set in England, it is one of Burnett’s most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children’s literature