The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
19.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics
Sixteen-year-old Arthur is looking for adventure, so he stows away on a whaling ship. But he gets more excitement soon after setting sail, the crew rebel against their captain and murder everyone who will not join them. The nightmare vision of a corpse-ridden ghost ship taunts them as they starve. It se ...Show more
Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky
15.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her firstborn child.
The Boy Who Held Back the Sea by Thomas Locker
16.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Picture Puffin S. | Reading Level: 4-8
Jan had never done anything more heroic than shout for the guard because he'd imagined he'd seen a sea serpent. But when Jan discovered water trickling through a desolate stretch of the dike that protected his low-lying village, he knew he had to act fast.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
12.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
The heartwarming story of an irrepressible orphan's effect on a quiet farming community. Anne Shirley is skinny, red-haired, and never stops talking - and she is a girl. The Cuthberts, who had meant to adopt a boy to help on the farm, are both exasperated and entertained by her constant chatter and roma ...Show more
Swiss Family Robinson (Puffin Classic) by Johann David Wyss
11.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
A terrible storm strands a Swiss pastor, with his wife and four sons, on a tropical island. Luckily, the Robinsons are optimistic and inventive, and with what they salvage from the wrecked ship, and the island's abundant fruits, plants and animals, they soon adapt, each day discovering new dangers, skil ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum
12.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: good
When a cyclone hits her Kansas home, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked to the magical land of Oz. To find her way home, she must follow the yellow brick road to where the Wizard lives in the Emerald City. Along the way, she meets the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
12.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Following the demise of buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure island. But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages stand between him and the stash of gold. Not to mention the mos ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
15.99 NZD
16.99 (5% off)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classic | Reading Level: very good
Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But there life improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr. Rochester's house, as a governess, she hopes she might have finally fo ...Show more
Black Beauty (Puffin Classic) by Anna Sewell
11.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
The adventures, disappointments and joys of a very special horse.Black Beauty is a handsome, well-bred colt with a strong spirit. But when his owners are forced to sell him, his fortunes change from a life of comfort and kindness to one of hard labour and cruelty. Black Beauty soon learns how unpredicta ...Show more
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
10.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The tale of a boy's life in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Tom skips school and with his friends, Huck Finn and Jim, spends his days on mad adventures - some real, some imagined.
Jungle Book (Puffin Classic) by Rudyard Kipling
10.95 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: From 8 to 99
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought u ...Show more
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
14.95 NZD
16.95 (11% off)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A legend is born when young Arthur meets Merlin and draws the mighty sword from its stone. This spellbinding retelling brings to life King Arthur and the adventures of his Knights, from the quest for the Holy Grail to the final tragedy of the Last Battle.