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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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James Herriot's Treasury for Children
• James Herriot
• Peter Barrett
• Ruth Brown
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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From Moses the Kitten to Smudge the Little Lost Lamb, all of the beloved veterinarian's children's stories are collected in this illustrated volume.
(GBR390, $19.95)
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Lassie Come-Home
• Rosemary Wells
• Susan Jeffers
• Eric Knight
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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An award-winning, illustrated heart-warmer about a collie whose is taken away from his young owner, only to find its way home through hundreds of miles of Scottish and English countryside.
(GBR392, $8.95)
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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, $7.99)
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This is London
• Miroslav Sasek
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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Sasek's wonderful portrait of London circa 1958 depicts the tube, Piccadilly Circus and other famed attractions through bright, stylized illustrations. For children ages 4-8.
(GBR529, $17.95)
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Adam of the Road
• Elizabeth Janet Gray
• Robert Lawson
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A Newberry-winning classic about the adventures of a medieval minstrel's son who loses his way on the highways and byways of 13th-century England.
(GBR336, $7.99)
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An Episode of Sparrows
• Rumer Godden
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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When two poor children "steal" a bit of a defunct churchyard to make a garden in postwar London, the neighbors get involved for good and ill. As with all Godden's books, this is a tender, emotionally attuned portrait of a place and time.
(GBR688, $18.95)
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Crispin, The Cross of Lead
• Avi
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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13-year-old Crispin must flee his manor after a price is put on his head in this suspenseful, Newberry-winning tale set in medieval England.
(GBR528, $6.99)
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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor
• Kathryn Lasky
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The fictitious Royal Diary of 11-year-old Elizabeth Tudor is full of longing, intrigue and sibling rivalry -- a gripping introduction to the Virgin Queen for middle readers.
(GBR331, $10.95)
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Hello Britain! Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Your Holiday in Britain
• Rebecca Welby
• EXPLORATION
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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(GBR669, $16.95)
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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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Knight's Castle
• Edward Eager
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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When a toy soldier comes to life, four young Americans are whisked back in time to Robin Hood's England in this charming and good-humored fantasy.
(GBR340, $6.99)
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Robin Hood, Read and Listen
• Neil Philip
• HISTORY
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The tale of Robin Hood and his band of followers for grades 3-5, noteworthy for its visual approach and good historical background.
(GBR479, $9.99)
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The Big Six
• Arthur Ransome
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This sweet novel follows the further adventures of the Coot Club in the Norfolk Broads.
(GBR485, $14.95)
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The Coot Club
• Arthur Ransome
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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It's summertime in the English countryside, and the young members of the Coot Club Bird Protection Society band together to solve a mystery among the boats on the Norfolk Broads.
(GBR484, $14.95)
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The Midwife's Apprentice
• Karen Cushman
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This Newberry Award-winning tale recounts the apprenticeship of a homless orphan who learns to be a midwife in 14th-century England. Short, funny and atmospheric.
(GBR341, $5.99)
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The Secret Garden
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Tasha Tudor
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Sullen orphan Mary's life changes when she discovers an abandoned garden hidden on her uncle's staid Yorkshire estate. As she nurses the garden and her sickly cousin back to health, she herself begins to blossom.
(GBR391, $6.99)
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The Shakespeare Stealer
• Gary Blackwood
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Young orphan Widge is hired to infiltrate the Globe and steal Shakespeare's latest play for another acting troupe. But will the boy betray his new friends or disobey his employer?
(GBR335, $6.99)
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The Snow Goose
• Paul Gallico
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A handsome hardcover edition of Gallico's poignant tale of innocence and longing set in Word War II England.
(BRD20, $19.95)
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The Wind in the Willows
• Kenneth Grahame
• Ernest H. Shepard
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A 75th anniversary edition of Grahame's enduring tale of fun, friendship and adventure, starring Rat, Toad, Mole, and Badger.
(GBR481, $19.95)
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We Didn't Meant to Go to Sea
• Arthur Ransome
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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In this seventh installment in the Swallows and Amazon series, our resourceful young heroes find themselves adrift on a small boat in the the stormy North Sea.
(GBR483, $14.95)
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• E.L. Konigsburg
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A marvelous fictionalized portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine, 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. For young adults.
(GBR245, $5.99)
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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An acclaimed young-adult novel, one in a series of Young Royals, in which Henry VIII is recently dead and young Elizabeth endures the tumultuous reigns of her brother Edward and sister Mary before ascending the throne herself.
(GBR332, $6.99)
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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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I Capture the Castle
• Dodie Smith
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A novel about a 17-year-old girl who spends six months in an English castle writing in a journal, until she has "captured" the castle with words.
(GBR497, $13.95)
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Loving Will Shakespeare
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Popular young adult author Carolyn Meyer fictionalizes the romance between Anne Hathaway and the young William Shakespeare in this novel for teens.
(GBR668, $6.95)
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Mary, Bloody Mary
• Carolyn Meyer
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This sympathetic portrait brings to life Mary Tudor's childhood and difficult teen years, when her beloved father, Henry VIII, spurns Mary's mother for the bewitching Anne Boleyn -- and Mary goes from riches to rags, becoming the embittered woman who would later be known as Bloody Queen Mary. Ages 11 and up.
(GBR333, $6.99)
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Ring of Bright Water
• Gavin Maxwell
• NATURAL HISTORY
• YOUNG ADULTS
• OUT OF PRINT
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This magical book has been treasured by generations of children and their parents.
(SCT17, $13.00)
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The Queen's Own Fool
• Robert J. Harris
• Jane Yolen
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This excellent historical novel relates the life of Mary Queen of Scots as witnessed by her jester, a spunky orphan named Nicola.
(SCT55, $7.99)
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Westminster Abby
• Micol Ostow
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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16 year-old Abby is sent to study in London as a punishment after her parents discover she lied to them about a boy. The first book in the SASS (Students Across the Seven Seas) series.
(GBR670, $6.99)
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A Street Through Time
• Anne Millard
• Steve Noon
• HISTORY
• FAMILY
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This oversize book depicts the changes on an English riverbank from Stone age camp to modern city.
(GBR487, $17.99)
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
• Robert Sabuda
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Working his own magic, paper-fold master Sabuda unfurls the classic tale in a series of six stunning double-page animated scenes. Each double-page spread, adapted from Tenniel's original illustrations, thrills with color, texture, and, most surprising of all, height.
(GBR426, $28.99)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
• Lewis Carroll
• Roger Lancelyn Green
• John Tenniel
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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The enduring children's classic, with Tenniel's original illustrations.
(GBR449, $8.95)
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Boy, Tales of Childhood
• Roald Dahl
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• FAMILY
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Dahl recalls his youthful misadventures, in boarding school, working as a chocolate tester and summering in Wales. Great family reading.
(GBR183, $6.99)
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Stephen Biesty's Castles
• Stephen Biesty
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• FAMILY
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This delightfully illustrated book by Stephen Biesty depicts 10 real castles, not just the architecture but also routines, inhabitants and life. Meredith Hooper provides the accompanying tale. Intended for middle schoolers, the whole family will appreciate the glimpse into daily life in the castle -- and the exquisitely detailed renderings.
(GBR486, $19.95)
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The Tailor of Gloucester
• Beatrix Potter
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Potter's delightful tale of an ailing English tailor and the mice that help him sew a waiscoat for the Mayor of Gloucester, featuring the author's original watercolors.
(GBR466, $6.99)
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The Wind in the Willows
• Kenneth Grahame
• Ernest H. Shepard
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Rat, Mole, Badger and, of course, exasperating Mr. Toad, all star in Grahame's beloved adventures set along a riverbank in the English countryside.
(GBR457, $6.99)
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