??When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true… But the things that seem really likely, like fairy tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see […]
“This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure…” When their mother dies and their fathers business partner runs off with most of their money, the six intrepid Bastable children are determined to restore their familys fallen fortunes. Theseresourceful children squabble, make up, and have many memorable adventures, from publishing their own […]
No-one can imagine English literature without Sir William Shakespeare whose dramatic plays sonnets and narrative poems have become timeless classics. Not only did he amass a cherished body of work but four hundred years ago he even invented many words in use in English now. A hundred years ago childrens author E. Nesbit felt that […]