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Bard of Avon
• Diane Stanley
• Peter Vennema
• HISTORY
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An illustrated account of William Shakespeare's life and 16th century England, written for readers ages 6 and older.
(GBR151, $7.99)
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A young-adult novel about proud, lonely, endangered Princess Elizabeth Tudor.
(GBR332, $6.95)
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Coram Boy
• Jamila Gavin
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This young adult novel offers a textured, nuanced, evocative story of the upper and lower classes in England in 1741, concentrating her focus on two 13-year-old boys and their intertwined ambitions.
(GBR339, $7.95)
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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor
• Kathryn Lasky
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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The fictitious diary of Elizabeth Tudor, written for young adults.
(GBR331, $10.95)
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England, A True Book
• Michael Burgan
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An introduction to England and English history for readers 6 to 8.
(GBR338, $6.95)
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An Episode of Sparrows
• Rumer Godden
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A tender, emotionally attuned novel set among street children in postwar London by a favorite author. Godden (1907-1998) wrote 60 books for adults and young adults over a long career.
(GBR688, $18.95)
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Fodor's Around London with Kids, Great Things to Do Together in the City and Beyond
• Jacqueline Brown
• GUIDEBOOK
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Compact, colorful and featuring 68 attractions for families in and around the city.
(GBR311, $9.95)
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King of Shadows
• Susan Cooper
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A novel of time-travel, Shakespeare -- and the plague -- for kids.
(GBR161, $5.99)
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London Children's Map
• Guy Fox Publishing
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A small illustrated map of London for kids with all the main sites labeled. Comes with a set of free stickers.
(GBR797, $4.95)
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Madeline in London
• Ludwig Bemelmans
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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Miss Clavel, Madeline and her 11 classmates travel to London to cheer up their former neighbor, Pepito.
(GBR152, $17.99)
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Mary, Bloody Mary
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A historical novel about Mary Tudor, the short-lived, embattled Catholic Tudor queen.
(GBR333, $6.99)
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Peter Pan, A Classic Collectible Pop-Up
• Robert Sabuda
• Matthew Reinhart
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Wizard of paper engineering, Sabuda transforms M. Barrie's classic's tale into an astonishing world of movement and dimension. Each double-page spread of nighttime London (with clouds floating by) or the jolly roger (in all its colorful 3-D glory) is festooned with doors, windows and booklets.
(GBR804, $29.99)
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• E.L. Konigsburg
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A marvelous young adult novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was queen of France and England successively, traveler to Constantinople, wife of a future saint, mother of Richard the Lionheart and for 15 years a prisoner of the English Crown.
(GBR245, $5.99)
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Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James
• Paula Danziger
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This upbeat young-adult novel sees Kendra, her brother O.K. and teen heartthrob Frank Lee set loose on a scavenger hunt during a family vacation in London. The hunt not-coincidentally takes the kids to nearly all of London's monuments.
(GBR334, $4.99)
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This is London
• Miroslav Sasek
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A facsimile editon of Sasek's wonderfully illustrated portrait of London for children ages 4-8. Originally published in 1958.
(GBR529, $17.95)
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