Kids

A gleefully absurd, choose-your-own-adventure retelling of The Billy Goats Gruff — cunning, subterfuge, and a dollop of muscle, all entirely clean.

A silly read-along parody of The Little Red Hen — thrill to planting wheat and baking bread, cheer the hero as she naps, and learn the vital merits of gas cooking over electric.

A cheerfully absurd retelling of The Ugly Duckling that takes more liberties with the material than Oliver Stone ever could — hope for all ugly creatures, great and small.

Five siblings discover that their new carpet is magical and can take them on adventures when they make a wish.

In Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood embark on small adventures: searching for honey, visiting one another, and trying to solve problems that often arise from their own…

In J.

In Hugh Lofting’s The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, young Tommy Stubbins joins the doctor and his animal companions on a sea voyage.

In E.

Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a collection of stories, most famously following Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.

In Norman Lindsay’s The Magic Pudding, Bunyip Bluegum sets off to see the world and meets Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff, two travelers devoted to their remarkable pudding, Albert.

In Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Doctor Dolittle, kindhearted Dr.

In E.

In Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, shy Mole leaves his underground home and befriends the easygoing Rat, wise Badger, and irrepressible Toad.

When curious Alice follows a hurried White Rabbit down a rabbit hole, she tumbles into Wonderland—a topsy-turvy world of talking animals, puzzling riddles, and unexpected changes in size.

Newbery Award winner Beverly Cleary delivers a humorous portrayal of the ups and downs of sisterhood.