Meet favourite characters from Heidi to Pollyanna as they flit through this enchanting collection of extracts from literary classics.
Classic Treasury Christmas Stories is one of our bestselling Christmas books for children aged 7-10 years. This heart-warming collection is charmingly illustrated to create a winter wonderland that will get the whole family in the festive spirit! # Young readers can become familiar with Christmas songs and legendary tales by much-loved narrators such as Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dic…
Namanya Toko Buku Abadi, di sana hanya menjual buku-buku bagus yang sudah dikurasi pemiliknya, sepasang suami istri yang sudah senja. Toko buku itu terletak di depan sebuah rumah besar di tepi sebuah kota kecil. Rumah peninggalan zaman kolonial, berdiri kokoh, tetapi diam-diam menyimpan banyak cerita tragis. Lalu, sebentar saja, Toko Buku Abadi pun disinggahi oleh para bibliophile, omnilegen…
from the back cover: William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . . or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his on…
What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's . . .' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book.
from the back cover: Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson t…
from the back cover: On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of t…
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