25 Favorite Children's Books (Black Beauty, Treasure Island, Heidi, Wizard of Oz, Secret Garden, Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, Jungle Book, Pollyanna, Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, +)

by Mark Twain, Daniel Defoe, L. Frank Baum, L. M. Montgomery, New World Publishers, LLC

Overview

A perfect addition to your Nook bookshelf! This wonderful collection of books will bring adults back to their childhoods and create many happy memories for middle and young adult readers. These classics include books of adventure, animals, family life, fantasy and science fiction, coming of age, and romance. This is a perfect collection for a long journey, rainy days, or for any quiet moments. The books are organized in chronological order by the date they were published, but it's fun to skip around according to the book that suits your mood. Includes an active table of contents so you can use your NOOK's GOTO CHAPTER feature to easily navigate to each book.

Includes the following great books:

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (1719)
Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift (1726)
Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss (1813)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving (1819)
Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving (1820)
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (1843)
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne (1864)
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
Little Men, by Louisa May Alcott (1871)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876)
Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell (1877)
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884)
Heidi, by Johanna Spyri (1884)
Lorna Doone, by R. D. Blackmore (1893)
The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum (1900)
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (1903)
A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)
White Fang, by Jack London (1906)
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maude Montgomery (1908)
Anne of Avonlea, by Lucy Maude Montgomery (1909)
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter (1913)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012365880
Publisher:	New World Publishers, LLC
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut