Religous Story Books

  O nce upon a time there was a poor little mouse. It was so small and petite that nobody took notice of it. At assemblies the other mice just didn`t notice it because its voice was too thin and …

Through the agency of Puck, Dan and Una, meet an array of historical characters from flint and iron ages to Good Queen Bess and Sir Francis Drake. Other tales include stories of England following the …

First published in 1898, ‘Dream Days’ is a collection of children’s fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. It is a sequel to Grahame’s 1895 collection ‘The Golden Age’ (so …

The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan’s The School for Sca …

The Just So Stories for Little Children are a collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Highly fantasised origin stories, especially for differences among animals, they are among Kipl …

A pair of children happen across an ancient shrine, where they conjure up an impish sprite named Puck, who treats them to a series of tales about Old England. Rudyard Kipling, the storyteller behind …

When the lovable, but lazy, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep on a nearby mountain, he awakens 20 years later to find that nothing in his life will ever be the same.The classic American short story, &ldquo …

I n his most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the isl …

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen’s two earlier novels, Se …

While exploring the environs of their summer home, five brothers and sisters find a Psammead, or Sand-fairy, in a nearby gravel pit: “Its eyes were on long horns like a snail’s eyes, and …