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10 best books like Puck of Pook's Hill (Rudyard Kipling): Maida's Little Shop, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Knight's Fee, Gloriana, The Wouldbegoods, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai, The Fox / The Captain's Doll / The Ladybird

Maida's Little Shop
AuthorInez Haynes Irwin
ISBN1421970694
Maida's Little Shop is a gentle story with a delightful little girl heroine and lovable characters. Inez Haynes Irwin used the pseudonym Inez Haynes Gilmore. She was a feminist writer and was a member of the National Women's Party. Maida is a sweet little girl whose father is one of the richest men in America....
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN0486442179
An influential fantasy writer and a key figure in the Irish literary renaissance, Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, the eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1878-1957) produced a trove of gems of the imagination. The 12 stories here are some of his best. They will take you on a remarkable journey to places that sometimes...
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
AuthorAlexandra Harney
ISBN1594201579
A landmark eyewitness exposé of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future

In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how China is able to offer such amazingly...
Knight's Fee
AuthorRosemary Sutcliff
ISBN0192720384
Hidden behind the battlements on the roof of the gatehouse crouched Randal the dog-boy, watching for the arrival of Hugh Goch, the new Lord of Arundel Castle. As the cavalcade approached the great gateway, a small thing happened; Randal dropped the fig he had been eating on to the nose of Hugh's mettlesome...
Gloriana
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0446691402
A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities...
The Wouldbegoods
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN0140367519
Edith Nesbit’s life was certainly unconventional by late Victorian and Edwardian standards, and it’s not surprising that her own childhood experiences and adult observations find themselves thinly fictionalised in her novels, particularly those written for children. Typical is her re-use...
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
AuthorCarole G. Silver
ISBN0195121996
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources...
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
AuthorMervyn Peake
ISBN0763616257


A delightful children's book, handwritten and illustrated by Mervyn Peake, though like all really good children's books, it can also be enjoyed by adults.

This book reflects Peake's lifelong love of pirates and islands, though it's really a simple story of friendship, fun and adventure....
Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai
AuthorAlgernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
ISBN0486440621
The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attaché with the British legation at Edo (Tokyo) — one of the first foreign diplomats to do so. During his brief stay...
The Fox / The Captain's Doll / The Ladybird
AuthorD.H. Lawrence
ISBN0141441836
These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their...
Great Swedish Fairy Tales
AuthorElsa Olenius
This book has wonderful tales and equally wonderful artwork by John Bauer. Three tales stand out, "The Magician's Cape", "The Queen," and "The Changelings". The stories include encounters with trolls and feature a good mixture of heros and heroines.

It should be noted, however, that the...
If I Were You
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN1558820582
‘If I Were You’ published in Wodehouse’s greatest age harks back to his earlier novels without the looseness of relying on his stock characters from the Drones club or the Blandings or Dolly the Dip sagas. Despite the more Edwardian feel to the novel it is a great Wodehouse yarn that underplays...
Great Northern? A Scottish Adventure of Swallows & Amazons
AuthorArthur Ransome
ISBN1567922597
Finally! Here is the twelfth, and final, book in Arthur Ransome's acclaimed Swallows and Amazons series. People familiar with his earlier work will recognize the pattern: children set out on an adventure (this one off the coast of Scotland) with a minimum of parental advice and interference. Here,...
Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy
AuthorWolf-Dieter Storl
An extensive look at all the aspects of multi-natured Shiva

• Explores the shamanic roots of world spirituality as exemplified by this Hindu god who shares many of the attributes of the Norse Odin and the Celtic Cernunnos

• Looks at Shiva’s relation to contemporary culture,...
A Field Guide to the Little People
AuthorNancy Arrowsmith
ISBN0671790366
In high summer meadows, nestled in the moors, near old castles, or behind the kitchen stove--these are the places where the Little People may be found. Make the acquaintance of White Ladies and Red Caps, Church Grims and Hobgoblins, English Fairies, Leprechauns, Sirens, Hey-Hey Men, and all of their...
Roll of thunder, hear my cry: By Mildred D. Taylor (Exploring literature)
AuthorCarmela M. Krueser
ISBN1558630414
About the Author: "I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer." -- Mildred D. Taylor


Newbery Award-winning author, Mildred D. Taylor, was born in...
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