Recommended Children's Classics
0008514348 
Paperback 
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is the classic story of Heidi, an unwanted child who finds love and happiness against all the odds.
0192776312 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Pippa lives in a house with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She's wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting.
144495945X 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Hodder
Resource type: Physical
Note: Joe, Beth and Frannie find the Enchanted Wood on the doorstep of their new home, and when they discover the Faraway Tree they fall into all sorts of adventures!
0141370211 
Paperback
Year: 2017
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Farmer Hogget wins a piglet at the local fair, Mrs Hogget thinks of fattening it up for the freezer. But the old sheepdog, Fly, takes him under her wing and starts to train him up as a sheep-pig, whose methods of getting the sheep to do what he wants are rather unconventional. Originally published: 2011
014135495X 
Paperback
Year: 2014
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: TARKA THE OTTER is the classic story of an otter living in the Devonshire countryside which captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes. The story's atmosphere and detail make it easy to see why Tarka has become one of the best-loved creatures in world literature.
1721368434 
Audio book
Year: 2019
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Ulverscroft Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Performed by Sandra Burr. 16 discs
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0192738275 
Paperback
Year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Mary Lennox's life changes when she arrives at the gloomy old house on the moors
0655637443 
Audio book
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Bolinda/Audible audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Martin Jarvis. 4 Audio CDs Children
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1444824724 
Large print 
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Large print
Publisher: Thorpe
Resource type: Physical
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140715852X 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Resource type: Physical
Note: What are you looking for? Friendship! Fantasy! Adventure! Excitement! Dorothy and her friends know there's only one person who can help make their wishes come true and that's the Wizard. But as they set off to find him, the Wicked Witch is never far behind.
1405656670 
Audio book
Year: 2006
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Chivers Children's Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by David Bradley. 4 discs Giants are known for eating children. So when Sophie is snatched from her bed by the BFG, she fears for her life. But luckily he is far more jumbly than his disgusting neighbours. They become good friends and cook up a plan to rid the world of bad giants.
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0141359803 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil are orphans, found by Great Uncle Matthew on his travels. Pauline longs to be an actreee, petrova wants to fly aeroplanes and Posy would dance all day if she could
0141321121 
Paperback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: A wealthy young girl learns to live at a boarding school when her life changes dramatically
XX00410297 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2017
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Rob Inglis. The Hobbit' is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this quest is Bilbo Baggins.
1407154168 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, set out to find him. They travel to the ice kingdoms of the North, where armoured bears rule, and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies.
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0141374195 
Hardback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Stevenson's classic tale is set in the mid-1700s and is narrated by young hero Jim Hawkins. Its fast-moving plot is filled with mysterious maps, shipwrecks, smugglers, mutiny, menacing pirates and a hunt for buried treasure.
1408855658 
Paperback
Year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt and Uncle's house. He is bullied by them and his spoilt cousin, and lives a very unremarkable life. But then Harry is transported to a world of magic and excitement. Originally published: 1997
0571323413 
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Toad has always been a silly sort of fellow. But when his latest obsession with motor cars - the faster the better - threatens to lead him to disaster, it is up to Toad's good friends Mole, Ratty and Badger to get him under control. Can they save Toad from prison, and his home Toad Hall from the wicked Weasels and Stoats?
0141365374 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket and wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made.
0141365463 
Paperback
Year: 2016
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Find out how she gets the better of them and her spiteful headmistress, as well as discovering that she has a very special power. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1988