Although E. Nesbit regarded her poetry as her most important work, it is her children's books (written 'to keep the house going')...

Originally published as a serial in the children's monthly magazine St Nicholas, Little Lord Fauntleroy was Frances Hodgson...

Described on the title-page of the first edition as 'the autobiography of her horse, translated from the original equine', Black...

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map showing the way to...

Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn...

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales originally appeared in batches each Christmas in the mid-19th century, and Spink's English...

Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg. Pinocchio, an endearing scamp, is always...

‘Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a...

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and...

'Hansel and Gretel', 'Rumpelstiltskin', 'Rapunzel' and 'Snow White' are among the jewels we owe to the brothers Grimm, who began...