Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father...

'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright'

Meg,...

'My dear girls, stop your mud-pies and hear the news!'

Ten years after Little Men, the boys that Jo raised are all grown-up....

If you love Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes,you'll adore The Bell Family.

'Well, little people, what's the news?'

Meet the...

Discover this amazing adventure story set in the Second World War

'If you meet Ruth or Edek or Bronia, you must tell them I'm...

Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

'She looked...

A New Translation by Michael Morpurgo, Author of War Horse

If a little fellow comes along, if he laughs, if he has golden...

'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be'

When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend...

'We always allow one pillow-fight Saturday night'

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'Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find...

Discover the real story behind Disney's latest blockbuster adaptation The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and the iconic...

Welcome to Redwall Abbey. Inside its enormous doors, mice live in peace, helping those in need and throwing epic feasts for the...

'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'

Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a...

'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He's a Fattypuff and you're a Thinifer. There's no doubt about it!'

This is the tale of two...

'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home, home to his own beloved master...'

The Hunter...

'On the contrary, my dear Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see'

Herein lie the...

You might think I'd have grown out of getting myself into scrapes now that I'm half past sixteen. But between being vexed by my...

'It's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?'

My dislikes: Being an...

'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?'

Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a...

'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house'

He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth...

‘Traitor! Now is your death-time upon you!’

You may think you know all about King Arthur, the young boy who plucked the sword...

‘Many years ago – when our grandfathers were little children – there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle’

Dr Dolittle...

'For God's sake, hold on!'

On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test...

‘I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one’

Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very...

Read this 19th-century childhood adventure story that confronts the reality of racism in America.

'There comes a time in every...

‘Wait, wait! Save us! What’ll we do?’

Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to...

Come Away! Come Away!

The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his...

Bursting with rich descriptive detail, discover the classic world of Treasure Island.

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -...

'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"'

They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously...

Read the ultimate classic comforting coming of age fantasy story.

'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?'

I dare...