25 Greatest Children's Books

by Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Overview

25 Greatest Children's Books:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Peter Pan
The Wind in the Willows
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
Andersen's Fairy Tales
The Jungle Book
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Treasure Island
The Prince and the Pauper
Gulliver's Travels
The Hunting of the Snark
Black Beauty
The Enchanted Castle
The Railway Children
The Light Princess
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
Rose in Bloom
A Girl of the Limberlost

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150814141
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	10/25/2015
Series:	Unforgotten Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, was a man of diverse interests -- in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters.

As all Carroll admirers know, his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1872.

The Alice books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. The Hunting of the Snark, a classic nonsense epic (1876) and Euclid and His Modern Rivals, a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. Sylvie and Bruno, published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.

The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).

Date of Birth:

January 27, 1832

Date of Death:

January 14, 1898

Place of Birth:

Daresbury, Cheshire, England

Place of Death:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Education:

Richmond School, Christ Church College, Oxford University, B.A., 1854; M.A., 1857

Website:

http://www.lewis-carroll-birthplace.org.uk/