The Secret Garden (Ladybird Classics Abridged)

Ladybird

This beautiful hardback "Ladybird Classic" edition of "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retai...

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against ...