Part of Penguin's" beautiful hardback " Clothbound Classics" series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards ' wrote Dodgson describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland & the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; & a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen." ...

On an ordinary summer's afternoon Alice tumbles down a hole & an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party & plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land Alice finds herself growing more & more curious by the minute.. . Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" read by Susan Jameson & James Saxon is one of the seven wonderful classic stories being relaunched in CD-format in March 2007." ...

Young Alice dozes on a warm afternoon on the riverbank only to see a white rabbit with a pocket watch rushing down a rabbit hole. Alice follows & enters the magical world of Wonderland where anything & everything can happen. Each spread of this title

Includes:: additional features such as poems songs letters lists & notes that enrich the story adding background & atmosphere to draw the reader along.

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Everything that Lewis Carroll ever published in book form appears in this volume. In addition at least ten of the shorter pieces have never appeared in print except in their original editions. Included are: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" " Through the Looking-Glass" " Sylvie & Bruno" " Sylvie & Bruno Concluded" " The Hunting of the Snark" & all of the poetry essays & phantasmagoria along with a substantial collection of his miscellaneous writings. " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories" is part of " Barnes & Noble"'s series of quality leatherbound volumes. Each title in the series presents a classic work in an attractively designed edition bound in genuine bonded leather with beautiful illustrations & breathtaking endpapers. These books make elegant additions to any home library." ...

The Collector's Colour Library" takes the favourite illustrated titles of " The Collector's Library" & presents them in full colour. Original colour illustrations are faithfully reproduced & where illustrations & decorations were originally black & white they have been sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith one of Britain's most accomplished colourists. When Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderl&. Wonderland is no ordinary place & the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met. " Through the Looking-Glass" continues her bizarre adventures & she meets more outlandish creations including the Red & the White Queens Humpty Dumpty & the White Knight. Sir John Tenniel's magical illustrations have been delicately coloured by Barbara Frith." ...

The Second World War is drawing to a close in Europe. For three years the land girls at Post Stone Farm have worked together defying Hitler in their own way. They have witnessed love & loss found their independence & made lifetime friends. Now in the final months of conflict Alice Todd prepares for life at the farm to change forever. Her years as warden of a Land Army hostel have transformed Alice's life. From damaged deserted wife she has emerged self-confident & ambitious. With peacetime approaching she must now decide on a future for her young son & herself. But what of Roger Bayliss the enigmatic farm owner to whom she is increasingly drawn? What is this strange cloud which hangs over him & threatens to destroy their relationship? In this moving finale to the popular land girls trilogy Alice & her girls come to terms with life after the war. ...

Alice-Miranda is set for a luxurious cruise aboard the royal yacht Octavia where the wedding of Aunt Charlotte & the famous ...

Alice-Miranda is thrilled to be back at school where the girls are preparing a play with the neighbouring boys' school. But it's not all glitter & stage lights: there are rumours of a witch in the woods & Jacinta & Millie are clashing with a rude new student Sloane & her pushy mother September who's plotting to steal the fortune she's always dreamed of. It's up to Alice-Miranda to set things right! ...

Sent from the planet Djan & now disguised as a normal schoolboy Jodie's mission is to investigate & report why pollution levels are rising so fast on the planet Earth. In theory the mission is safe but now Jodie's Calling Crystal is flashing a warning
- there is a hostile alien force nearby & it has begun to track him down. A fast-paced science fiction story to promote discussion on the environment & the concept of friends & outsiders"."
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Five mutant alien outcasts have been recruited by the evil outlaw Kaos to destroy the galaxy... Half hideous alien half deadly robot
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