'A Borrower meets a human being and the last thing he sees is his shoe...' The Borrowers are very small and very clever. They can climb, they make machines and they want to fight Ocious P. Potte…
A young boy, Jim Hawkins, lives quietly by the sea with his mother and father. One day, Billy Bones comes to live with them and from that day everything is different. Jim meets Long John Silver, a …
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their mother and father. One day, their father goes away. The children and their mother go to live in a small house near a railway. They make …
"Do you want to leave the world behind? Then this game is for you. The first one to finish and shout 'Jumanji' wins the game." But you must finish. Because with the first throw of the dice strange…
Two babies are born on the same day into very different lives. One is a prince and the other is a papuper who will grow up to beg on the streets of London. One day, ten years later, they meet and t…
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old., but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is …
On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her ... and…
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is ver…
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all d…
Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bo…