Title: Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
Author: Hugh Lofting
Genre: fantasy, animals

Doctor Dolittle wastes no time in setting up the most efficient mail service in the world when he discovers that there is not only an animal language, but animal writing as well. “The Swallow Mail”, as it is called, soon boasts good pens in the post office, postmen ( Read more... )

Title: The Clue of the Leaning Chimney (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories #26)
Author: Carolyn Keene
Genre: mystery, teen lit, pre-teen lit

As a result of an encounter with a sinister stranger on a lonely country road, Nancy Drew and her friend Bess Marvin discover that a rare and valuable Chinese vase has been stolen from the pottery shop of Dick Milton ( Read more... )

Title The Raven and Other Favorite Poems
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Genre: poetry

One of the most famous poems in the English language, “The Raven” first appeared in the January 29, 1845 edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-thirties and well-known poet, critic, and short story writer, his first taste ( Read more... )

Title: Over to You
Author: Roald Dahl
Genre: historical fiction, short stories, World War II

Roald Dahl's ten early stories arise from his experiences as a wartime fighter pilot. They probe the minds of men living nightmares behind the nervy bonhomie of Ops room and Mess; men sent on one mission too many into chilling countries of the mind. (from ( Read more... )

Title: Selected Poems
Author: Emily Dickinson
Genre: poetry

The heart asks pleasure first ( Read more... )

Title: Enid Blyton's Coral Storybook
Author: Enid Blyton
Genre: kidlit, short (really short!) stories, toys

Enid Blyton is one of the best-loved children's authors of all time. This is a new edition of a collection of her stories for younger children, delightfully illustrated by Angie Sage. While the stories are an ideal length for reading ( Read more... )

Title: Mystery and Adventure Stories for Girls
Author: Various; edited by Eric Duthie
Genre: short story, anthology ( Read more... )

Read this one a while ago and forgot to post it here, whoops!

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Title: Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature
Author: Ruskin Bond
Genre: Nature writing, Indian lit, anthology

For over half a century, Ruskin Bond has celebrated the wonder ( Read more... )

Title: Annie Oakley (DK Biography)
Author: Chuck (Charles M.) Wills
Genre: Biography, history, kidlit

Annie Oakley first picked up a gun at the age of eight. She was a natural, and her success as a hunter helped greatly with family finances. By age 22, Annie was performing for money. She went on to travel the world, even snuffing out candle ( Read more... )

The Unwritten Volume 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words
Mike Carey/Peter Gross/M. K. Perker and others

When Tom Taylor's father Wilson created the Tommy Taylor fantasy series - the boy wizard series that gained immediate and widespread fame - fans relentlessly compared the real Tom to his counterpart, garnering him a type of notoriety he just ( Read more... )