Tag: Classics

Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi story of interplanetary friendship makes a perfect picture book for the whole family.   When E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released in theaters thirty-five years ago,

Give me my bone!       When a teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in the teeny-tiny village churchyard, she takes it home to boil for her teeny-tiny supper. She

First published in the mid 1960s, How Children Fail began an education reform movement that continues today. In his 1982 edition, John Holt added new insights into how children

“Who’s on first. What’s on second. I Don’t Know’s on third.” One of the classic comedy sketches of all time is now transformed into a priceless picture book—and it’s

Princess Irene lives in a castle in a wild and lonely mountainous region. One day she discovers a steep and winding stairway leading to a bewildering labyrinth of unused

“A favorite nursery tale delightfully illustrated in strong line and color in Galdone’s familiar and likable style.” –Booklist Another popular retelling by Paul Galdone joins the Folk Tale Classics series!

After encountering the ghost of his father on the castle parapet, Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is convinced that his father’s death was part of a foul plot to

The owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, are among the fey fauna and peculiar persons inhabiting the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear (20th

On the very day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, a young merchant sailor named Edmond Dantès is falsely imprisoned for life, laying to waste his plans of