Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 6-9) Bargain Book Box SP4166

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 6-9) Bargain Book Box SP4166

Fifteen Usborne Young Reading classics: Macbeth and Hamlet for seven-year-olds, Alice, Oz, Pinocchio, Heidi, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, The Railway Children, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Wind in the Willows. The books that get a child from fairy tales to real novels.

1. The Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum — Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion on the yellow brick road.
2. Beauty and the Beast — Louie Stowell — The rose, the castle and the Beast who’s only cruel when he’s frightened.
3. Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll — Down the rabbit hole, the tea party and the Queen of Hearts.
4. Macbeth — Shakespeare — The witches, the dagger, the blood that won’t wash off. Simplified, not softened.
5. Hamlet — Shakespeare — The ghost, the play within the play, and the duel. Christa Unzner’s illustrations.
6. Pinocchio — Carlo Collodi — The puppet who lies, the nose that grows, the whale.
7. Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne — Phileas Fogg’s bet, the elephant, and the day he gains crossing the dateline.
8. The Story of Heidi — Johanna Spyri — The mountain, the grandfather, the goats, and the city that makes her ill.
9. The Snow Queen — Andersen — A splinter of mirror in Kay’s eye, and Gerda walking to the top of the world to get him back.
10. The Railway Children — E. Nesbit — Three children wave at trains and stop one with red petticoats.
11. Jack and the Beanstalk — Katie Daynes — The beans, the giant, the golden hen.
12. The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett — Mary finds the key, Colin learns to walk.
13. The Clumsy Crocodile — Felicity Everett — Cassy breaks everything in the department store until she catches a thief.
14. Black Beauty — Anna Sewell — A horse’s life from meadow to cab-rank and back.
15. The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame — Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad’s motor-car.