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ENGLAND COAST-TO-COAST
For Kids
Bard of Avon
• Diane Stanley
• Peter Vennema
HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
An illustrated account of William Shakespeare's life and 16th-century England, thoughtfully relating the circumstances of the playwright's environment to the content of his plays. Written for readers ages 6 to 9.
(GBR151, $7.99) |
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James Herriot's Treasury for Children
• James Herriot
• Peter Barrett
• Ruth Brown
LITERATURE •
1992 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
Made famous by his tales of a country veterinarian in Yorkshire with "All Creatures Great and Small," James Herriot also wrote numerous stories for children. They're all collected and illustrated here and, of course, feature a barnyard full of adorable animals. For readers 4-8.
(GBR390, $19.95) |
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Lassie Come-Home
• Rosemary Wells
• Susan Jeffers
• Eric Knight
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
An award-winning, illustrated retelling of the Eric Knight heart-warmer that spawned a cottage industry of genius collies and their exploits. The original is the simple story of a Yorkshire boy whose dog is taken away, 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 •
2000 •
PAPER
• 64 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
Miss Clavel, Madeline and her 11 classmates travel to London to cheer up their former neighbor, Pepito, who had to move away from Paris. With the help of an adopted horse, the group embarks on a mad, rhyming tale of adventure through the city's busy streets. Written for kids ages 4-8.
(GBR152, $7.99) |
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This is London
• Miroslav Sasek
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 64 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
A classic portrait of London for children. First published in 1958, this is a facsimile edition of Sasek's charming original. The tube, Piccadilly Circus and other famed attractions are depicted with bright, stylized illustrations. Ages 4-8.
(GBR529, $17.95) |
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Adam of the Road
• Elizabeth Janet Gray
• Robert Lawson
LITERATURE •
1987 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A marvelous, classic children's book -- winner of a Newbery Medal in its day -- in which a minstrel's son loses his way on the highways and byways of 13th-century England. Jammed (but so subtly!) with period detail, this engrossing novel is an enduring introduction to merrie olde England for readers ages 8 to 12.
(GBR336, $7.99) |
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An Episode of Sparrows
• Rumer Godden
LITERATURE •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A wonderful book by a favorite author, An Episode of Sparrows is set amid the privations and hardships of postwar London. When two poor children "steal" a bit of a defunct churchyard to make a garden, the neighbors get involved for good and ill. As with all Miss Godden's books, this is a tender, emotionally true, utterly unsentimental book and portrait of a place and time, suitable for readers from 10 to 15.
(GBR688, $18.95) |
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Crispin, The Cross of Lead
• Avi
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 310 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A suspenseful, award-winning tale set in Medieval England. 13-year-old Crispin flees his manor after a price is put on his head, stumbling into the company of a wandering minstrel. Avi's writing is engaging and full of vivid detail of 14th-century England. Winner of the 2003 Newbery Award.
(GBR528, $7.99) |
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Hello Britain! Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Your Holiday in Britain
• Rebecca Welby
EXPLORATION •
2006 •
FLEXI-BOUND
• 60 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
The sturdy covers of this interactive book are packed with fun activities for children aged 7 to 12. With puzzles, maps and games, Hola Britain! is sure to reward the natural curiosity of younger travelers, and provide plenty of fun for the whole family.
(GBR669, $16.95) |
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King of Shadows
• Susan Cooper
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 186 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A young actor joins a troupe to travel to London's Globe theatre and finds himself transported back in time to a production directed by none other than Mr. William Shakespeare. Intended for children ages 10-12.
(GBR161, $5.99) |
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Knight's Castle
• Edward Eager
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 198 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
An irresistible classic. Before the kids can say "Ivanhoe" three times fast, they'll be transported to castle battlements in medieval England, where Robin Hood is battling for Sir Ivanhoe's release. Appropriately enough, the novel's four American protagonists are also thus suddenly transported -- in their case, when a toy soldier comes to life. Eager's book is packed with period detail (especially molten lead!) and great good humor. Ages 8 to 12.
(GBR340, $6.99) |
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Robin Hood, Read and Listen
• Neil Philip
HISTORY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 64 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A visually engaging re-telling of the famous tale of Robin Hood and his band of followers for grades 3-5, strong on medieval life and history in England. This edition includes the story on cassette -- as read by Ioan Gruffudd, a Welsh actor starring as Lancelot in the 2004 movie. A Dorling Kindersley Classic.
(GBR479, $9.99) |
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The Big Six
• Arthur Ransome
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 356 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
This wonderful adventure for kids, set in and around boats on the Norfolk Broads, take place in real landscapes and locations not very different today than when Arthur Ransome was writing in the 1930s. The book brings together Dot, Dick and fellow members of the Coot Club. And, of course, they have a mystery to solve.
(GBR485, $14.95) |
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The Coot Club
• Arthur Ransome
LITERATURE •
1990 •
PAPER
• 350 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
This wonderful adventure for kids, set in and around boats on the Norfolk Broads, take place in real landscapes and locations not very different today than when Arthur Ransome was writing in the 1930s. The youngsters Dick and Dot Callum, along with their friends, form the Coot Club. Adventures ensue.
(GBR484, $14.95) |
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The Midwife's Apprentice
• Karen Cushman
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 122 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
The 1996 Newbery Medal winner, this novel geared for 8-12 year olds recounts the apprenticeship of a waif named Brat, 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 •
2011 •
PAPER
• 358 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Sure to be listed among the favorites of most young girls, this is the enduring children's classic about a magical garden hidden on a staid country estate in Yorkshire. An engrossing story about the redemptive power of nature and a nice introduction to allegory for the young, literary minded, it's been popular with every generation since its publication over 80 years ago.
(GBR391, $16.00) |
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The Shakespeare Stealer
• Gary Blackwood
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Featuring an orphan boy, the Bard of Avon and an evil scene-stealer, this gripping novel will transport kids back in time to the Globe theatre and Elizabethan England. Young Widge is hired to infiltrate the Globe and steal "Hamlet" for another acting troupe. Recommended for readers ages 8 to 11.
(GBR335, $6.99) |
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The Snow Goose
• Paul Gallico
LITERATURE •
1941 •
HARD COVER
• 60 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A handsome hardcover edition of Gallico's poignant tale of innocence and longing set in Word War II England. In this ageless tale, a young girl finds a wounded snow goose, which she delivers into the hands of a strange lighthouse keeper on the Essex coast. The simple prose, growing friendship, fairy-tale quality (the unrecognized lighthouse keeper distinguishes himself at Dunkirk) will appeal to the whole family.
(BRD20, $19.95) |
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The Wind in the Willows
• Kenneth Grahame
• Ernest H. Shepard
LITERATURE •
1983 •
HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Oh how right he was, the water rat: 'Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing --half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." And this enduring children's classic is as stimulating and just plain wonderful as when it was penned by Kenneth Grahame in 1908. This gloriously illustrated edition (with the original full color paintings and drawings by Ernest Shepard) was published in celebration of the book's 75th anniversary.
(GBR481, $19.95) |
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We Didn't Meant to Go to Sea
• Arthur Ransome
LITERATURE •
1994 •
PAPER
• 344 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
This novel, which many consider the best of Arthur Ransome's many tales of adventure for youngsters, finds our heroes quite literally out to sea -- adrift in a gale, alone, in the North Sea. The seventh installment in Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, featuring the most about boats and the most thrills. Not to fear, the kids are amazing and everything turns out in the end.
(GBR483, $14.95) |
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• E.L. Konigsburg
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
A marvelous fictionalized portrait 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. E.L. Konigsburg's irreverent, feminist, educational young-adult novel begins on a cloud in heaven, where Eleanor is awaiting the induction into heaven of her husband Henry II of England, who has spent the last 800 years in -- well -- not in heaven, at any rate. The rest of the book is a flashback.
(GBR245, $5.99) |
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Beware, Princess Elizabeth
• Carolyn Meyer
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
An acclaimed young-adult novel, in which Henry VIII is recently dead and young Elizabeth Tudor must endure the tumultuous reigns of her brother Edward and sister Mary -- before ascending the throne herself, 11 years after her father's death. It's a very human portrait of the future queen, set squarely in Tudor England, from an author who has also written a novel about Mary Tudor (GBR333).
(GBR332, $6.99) |
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Coram Boy
• Jamila Gavin
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
Jamila Gavin 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. It's a big, ambitious, old-fashioned book about England at the dawn of the industrial age. The word most frequently used to describe this young-adult novel, which won the Whitbread for best children's book of 2001, is "Dickensian" -- in the very best sense.
(GBR339, $7.95) |
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I Capture the Castle
• Dodie Smith
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
A reprint of the much-loved novel about a 17-year-old girl who spends six months in an English castle writing in a journal, until she has effectively "captured" the castle with words. First published in 1948. Dodie Smith also wrote 101 Dalmatians.
(GBR497, $14.99) |
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Loving Will Shakespeare
• Carolyn Meyer
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
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 •
2001 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
An unusually generous portrayal of the young Mary Tudor, nicknamed "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant subjects. Popular young-adult author Meyer richly recreates the Tudor era and its religious conflicts for audiences ages 11 and up.
(GBR333, $6.99) |
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Ring of Bright Water, A Trilogy
• Gavin Maxwell
NATURAL HISTORY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
One of the great wildlife stories, published in a new omnibus edition by David R. Godine and faturing Maxwell's orginal drawings, this magical book weaves together the Scottish otter stories from Gavin Maxwell's three non-fiction books, Ring of Bright Water (1960), The Rocks Remain (1963), and Raven Meet Thy Brother (1969). Maxwell was also talented as an artist, and his sinuous line drawings of these amphibious and engaging creatures, and the homes they occupied, illustrate his story. This book stands as a lasting tribute to a man, his work, and his passion. It was received and has endured as a classic for its portrait not only of otters but also of a man who endured heartaches and disappointments, whose life embodied both greatness and tragedy. He writes with rare eloquence about his birth, his devotion to the beloved Scottish highlands, and the wildlife he loved.
(SCT17, $18.95) |
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The Queen's Own Fool
• Robert J. Harris
• Jane Yolen
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
This excellent historical young adult novel relates the life of Mary Queen of Scots as witnessed by her jester, a spunky orphan named Nicola. Following Nicola (and Mary) from France to Scotland, the authors expertly recreate an era of intrigue, nationalist conflicts and entrenched class divisions.
(SCT55, $7.99) |
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Westminster Abby
• Micol Ostow
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
Normally a perfectly honest and obedient daughter, 16 year-old Abby is punished by being sent to study in London after her parents discover she lied to them about a boy. In London Abby becomes more confident and learns to pursue her own independent path. 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 •
1993 •
HARD COVER
• 32 PAGES
• FAMILY
Subtitled A 12,00-year Walk Through History," this book shows in intricately detailed drawings the transformation from the stone age camp to a busy city in modern England. Geared for kids, anyone can appreciate the masterful drawings.
(GBR487, $19.99) |
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
• Robert Sabuda
LITERATURE •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 12 PAGES
• FAMILY
Working his own magic, paper-fold master Sabuda unfurls the classic tale in a series of six stunning double-page animated scenes. Each dazzles with color, texture and, most surprising of all, height. Alice grows large, teacups fly off the page, the forest is a foot tall and, finally, an entire deck of cards arcs over the page. Sabuda has adapted Tenniel's original illustrations admirably, adding fur and foil and color.
(GBR426, $29.99) |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
• Lewis Carroll
• Roger Lancelyn Green
• John Tenniel
LITERATURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 278 PAGES
• FAMILY
The enduring children's classic presented by Oxford University, with Tenniel's original illustrations.
(GBR449, $8.95) |
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Boy, Tales of Childhood
• Roald Dahl
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2009 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
• FAMILY
With his usual gift for storytelling, Dahl recalls growing up in a Norwegian-English family, spending his mischievous boyhood scheming in a boys' boarding school, working as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's and summering in Wales and the Norwegian islands.
(GBR183, $6.99) |
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The Tailor of Gloucester
• Beatrix Potter
LITERATURE •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 64 PAGES
• FAMILY
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. In celebration of Peter's birthday, Potter's Britsh publisher Frederick Warne has put out new editions of all 23 of Potter's tales.
(GBR466, $6.99) |
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The Wind in the Willows
• Kenneth Grahame
• Ernest H. Shepard
LITERATURE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
• FAMILY
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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