E. T. A. Hoffmann

Robert Blaisdell

Thea Kliros

After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell he is under and watches him change into a handsome prince.

The Story of the Nutcracker

Bob Blaisdell

An adaptation of the legend of Hercules, son of the god Zeus and a mortal woman and renowned for his great strength, who performs twelve "impossible" tasks.

The Story of Hercules

H. G. Wells

As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.

War Of The Worlds

Leo Tolstoy

Presents stories from Tolstoy's childhood, his adaptations of fables and presents his children's work, "Ivan the Fool and His Two Brothers."

Classic Tales and Fables for Children

graf Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi

In the years before he wrote War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy founded and ran a school on his estate at Yasanya Polyana. Brimming with progressive and sometimes radical ideas on schooling, Tolstoy undertook to teach the peasant children many subjects-including imaginative writing-and wrote about what he learned. This is a book for anyone who cares about education.

Leo Tolstoy's Writings on Education

Tolstoy as Teacher

David A. Beronä

Charles Turzak

Chronicling the Great Emancipator's path from obscurity to immortality, this reprint of a remarkable graphic art book commemorates the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. Thirty-six striking woodcut images, each accompanied by a brief caption, illustrate this handsome hardcover volume. In addition to a new preface and introduction, this edition includes an appendix with several of Lincoln's famous speeches, letters, and quotations.

Featuring Woodcuts by Charles Turzak

An Abraham Lincoln Tribute

This anthology of entertaining tales features the works of early American authors such as Benjamin Franklin and stories by 20th-century writers, including Dorothy Parker, Langston Hughes, and James Thurber. Additional contributors include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, James Branch Cabell, and others.

Selections from Mark Twain to Others Much More Recent

Humorous American Short Stories

Carlo Collodi

Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Louisa May Alcott

An abridged version of the classic novel chronicling the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

Little Women

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, Lord and Lady Greystoke, is adopted by an ape, whose own infant has died, and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.

Tarzan

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny.

Robert Blaisdell

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