We'll go to Toyland! I don't know the way, but we'll get there somehow. Goodbye, toys! You won't see us anymore!' The other toys in the nursery are really unkind to Tiptoe, the poor fairy doll. …
What should animal-mad Indie Kidd do when her best(est) friend's cat is run over? Poor Fee is lost without her beloved Garfield, and Indie will try anything to make her super-sad friend feel glad a…
The Winter's Tale of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, …
Lionel is a wild boy, who doesn't much like to be around other people. He'd rather be a purring cat or a wolf stalking the woods. Marybeth is a nice girl. She doesn't need to be told to comb her…
Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself, particularly at Christmas time, and was open-minded, willing to accept,…
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier;s renowned fi…
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Knocked unconscious, it is only when mechanic Hank Morgan comes to that he finds himself in 6th-century England rather than 1…
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim-that if…
Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comis triumph and firmly established Dickens as a'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of …
Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moo…