Rhyming text takes readers around the globe to show how people celebrate Christmas, while liftable flaps reveal specific traditions of each country visited.

Just before France's bloody revolution, watch the drama unfold through the eyes of Lucie, Charles and Sidney, three people whose lives are about to change forever.

Retells the story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to care for an invalid girl in the city.

This book retells the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

"The Cuthberts planned to adopt a boy to help out on the farm, so when red-headed 'Anne-with-an-e' arrives at Green Gables, she is not quite what they expected, but Anne sets out to win them over, determined to make a life - and a family - for herself." -- From publisher website.

An illustrated retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's book that describes the experiences of ten-year-old Mary, who after coming to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and meeting her sickly cousin, she discovers the mysteries of a locked garden.

"From teenage girls waiting to dance their very first ball, to mothers hunting for rich husbands for their daughters, Jane Austen's love stories are famous throughout the world. This collection of adaptations of all six novels -- and one shorter tale -- with beautiful illustrations and summaries of the characters, is the perfect introduction to Jane Austen."--Page 4 of cover.