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When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit, she finds herself in Wonderland. And there begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears, and attending the very maddest of tea parties.

When Chantella's mother died, she thought it couldn't get much worse. But now she is bullied by her stepfamily, and her dad has done nothing about it! Her one chance out is a singing competition. Chantella has a beautiful singing voice, but her stepsiblings are jealous.

Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Don’t you worry about a little thing like that!’ cried Mr Wonka. ‘My great glass elevator is ready for anything!’ This edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter...

These wonderful stories, written by the beloved children's author L. Frank Baum (author of The Wizard of Oz), are certain to delight children of all ages with fanciful images and outrageous characters. "The Glass Dog" tells the story of a cantankerous wizard and a young glass blower who falls in love. "The Capture of Father Time" tells the story of young Jim, a mischievous boy who lassos Father Time, with comical results.

Brought to you by Puffin. This audio edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is narrated by Sacha Dhawan (Doctor Who, The Boy with the Top Knot), and is bursting with fantabulous sound effects. 'Did we go too far?' Charlie asked. 'Too far?' cried Mr Wonka. 'Of course we went too far!...

Lewis Carroll’s classic of a little girl suddenly tossed into a nonsensical and surreal world, this story is beloved by generations and generations of fans.

A New York Times Bestseller An Indiebound Bestseller A Kids' Next Top Ten Book A Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices Selection A Junior Library Guild Selection One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Summer Reads “Not since Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass have I seen such an original...

""Here’s a fast-paced, riveting adventure story for young fantasy fans to enjoy, right down to its 'happily ever after' ending"" —ALA Booklist ""Kathy Lasky embellishes and burnishes the time-honored tropes of the Cinderella tale with her customary clarity of storytelling and novelty of...

Ark lives a mile up from the ground - in the last trees in the world. But Ravenwood faces a new threat by the empire that wants its precious wood. Ark and his friends must travel deep into enemy heartland to find out what evil is planned. Awaiting them is a glittering forest of glass skyscrapers, a twisted echo of home.

Adelaide Goode has never been good enough. Everyone knows she's the weakest witch born to the Goode family in centuries. And now her mom is betraying her in the worst possible way: abandoning her in Cranberry Hallow, where she has no friends at all, for three whole months! And she's pushing her to compete in the town Halloween pageant!

The Sisters Ever After series continues with a magical Cinderella retelling about a secret stepsister accused of a crime she didn’t commit and the race to clear her name before she loses everything at the castle. Meet Cinderella’s third “wicked” stepsister, Tirza. For years, Tirza has...

Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll’s dazzling sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, invites you into an even stranger, smarter, and more imaginative journey than before. When Alice climbs through the looking-glass in her drawing-room, she finds herself inside a chessboard world where time runs oddly, words mean whatever their speakers choose, and logic twists into delightful nonsense. Blending playful fantasy with sharp wit and hidden philosophy, Carroll crafts a story filled with riddles, wordplay, and surreal adventures that reward listeners of all ages.

Jayben has realised his destiny as the Ninth Great Dreamer; he is the only one with the power to defeat Null, the villain who has been making everyone in the elf world forget. A year has gone by since Jayben took half of Null's powerful crystals using the Golden Torch, but now the torch has been stolen. Without it, Jayben must find another way to harness his power.

Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, where young princes and princesses travel to each other's countries in the name of better political alliances - and potential marriages. It's got the makings of a fairy tale - until a hapless servant named Eleanor is tricked by a vengeful fairy godmother into competing with Poppy for the eligible prince.  

Through the Looking Glass is a sequel of sorts to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice, now slightly older, walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House and immediately becomes involved in a strange game of chess. Soon, she is exploring the rest of the house and meets a sequence of characters now familiar to most: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, Humpty Dumpty, and the Walrus, to name a few.

Nothing very exciting EVER happens in the town of Hobbleton. Then Red, Snow and Goldie are trained up as fairytale ninjas, and find that anything is possible.... When Madame Hart is accused of taking Prince Inigo, the fairytale ninjas are sure that she isn’t behind the kidnapping. Can they use their new-found skills to catch the real villain? Or will their ballet teacher stay banished forever?

In this sequel to Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, Alice enters another fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror. Just like her reflection, everything there is reversed – the nursery rhyme characters are real, running helps one stay still, walking away from something brings it closer. From the Red King to the White Queen, the cowardly brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee and Humpty Dumpty, Alice meets a cast of characters who are familiar and eccentric.

Alice passes through the looking-glass into Wonderland, only to become a pawn in a chess game between the Red Queen and the White Queen.

This 1872 sequel to Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds the inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Looking-glass land, a topsy-turvy world lurking just behind the mirror over Alice's mantel, is a fantastic realm of live chessmen, madcap kings and queens, strange mythological creatures, talking flowers and puddings, and rude insects.

Lewis Carroll's delightful sequel to Alice in Wonderland finds seven-year-old Alice off on another exciting adventure into Looking-Glass World. On her journey, she meets life-size chess pieces, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, and a host of fairy-tale creatures.