Fairy stories and traditional tales have a special place in the life of every child. Trust "Ladybird" to bring you all the best-loved titles in our famous small, hard-wearing format. This tale of "The Three Little Pigs" is perfect for reading aloud, or for older, more confident readers to read by themselves.
The magic of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs comes to life in this richly illustrated pop-up book. Doc, Happy, Dopey, Sleepy, and the rest of the dwarfs are here, along with the handsome prince and Snow White's forest friends. From a dramatic pop-up of Snow White's frightening flight through the forest to the queen's transformation into a hideous witch, children can relive the hig…
Usually, a storybook kiss turns a frog into a prince. Not this time. The Princess and the Frog is a modern twist on a classic tale. Set in New Orleans, the beautiful Tiana dreams of opening a restaurant in an old sugar mill. When she meets a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, her kiss leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the bayous of Louisiana, where (surprisingly…
After ten bloody years of fighting in the Trojan War, the intrepid Odysseus heads homeward, little imagining that it will take another ten years of desperate struggle to reclaim his kingdom and family. The wily hero circumvents the wrath of the sea god Poseidon and triumphs over an incredible array of obstacles, assisted by his patron goddess Athene and his own prodigious guile. From a literal …
Ten-year-old Mary Lennox arrives at a secluded estate on the Yorkshire moors with a scowl and a chip on her shoulder. First, there’s Martha Sowerby: the too-cheery maid with bothersome questions who seems out of place in the dreary manor. Then there’s the elusive Uncle Craven, Mary’s only remaining family—whom she’s not permitted to see. And finally, there are the mysteries that seem …
There is always light behind the clouds.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Hav…
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others. Scott approaches Rob Roy indirectly, through the adventu…