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35 reviews
Henry Winterfeld

Odyssey Classics, 2002

Excellent book for reading aloud!
My kids really enjoyed this book. I read it aloud to them last year, when they were in 2nd & 3rd grade, as part of our study of ancient civilizations. The book is set in ancient Rome, but the children are essentially modern. My kids related to them much more than they did to, say, Laura and Mary Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie. Those girls were very much part of the pioneer era they ...

Tales of Magic Boxed Set (Edward Eager Tales of Magic)

21 reviews
Edward Eager

Odyssey Classics, 2000

I met these books in 1966 and they still are the best !
A very good children's librarian recommended these to me the summer that I was 9 years old - I remember being sad as I finished each one but later begging my Mom to buy me all of the books in the series so that I could enjoy them again and again. The children in the stories are witty, not easily fooled and have independent minds - so different from many other book children of the time. I think my ...

Half Magic

128 reviews
Edward Eager

Odyssey Classics, 1999

audio books
These audio books help children that are having trouble with the written word. I also use them in the car, so each trip we hear more of the story. The kids love them and I think it makes them interested in reading.

Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake Books)

64 reviews
Elizabeth Enright

Odyssey Classics, 2000

Wonderful!
Gone-Away Lake is an amazing, well-written, mysterious, exciting, suspenseful, and funny book. It all starts when 10-year-old Portia and her 6-year-old brother, Foster, set off on a train to their Aunt Hilda, Uncle Jake, and cousin Julian's house. (Julian is the same age as Portia) They are spending two months there that summer, as usual, but this time, without their parents because they are ...

Return to Gone-Away

12 reviews
Elizabeth Enright

Odyssey Classics, 2000

One of my favorites from childhood
I loved this as a child and my son loves it just as much now that I have introduced it to him. A true classic for kids.

The Moffats

20 reviews
Eleanor Estes

Odyssey Classics, 2001

Great book...
I'm 14 and I still love this book. Eleanor Estes is a fantastic writer and this is one of my favourites. I highly reccomend this book for ANY age-it has something for everyone.

Miracles on Maple Hill

17 reviews
Virginia Sorensen, Beth Krush

Odyssey Classics, 2003

Miracles on Maple Hill
ISBN 0590431455 - This Newbery Award Winner managed to pull off one of the most difficult things in kids' books - possibly in any genre. It is almost completely timeless. Ignoring the copyright date, there is almost nothing in it that sets it in a particular timeframe. Because the setting is nature and a back-to-the-land ideal, the story could be set after almost any war - and because we're in ...

The Borrowers

51 reviews
Mary Norton

Odyssey Classics, 2003

The Borrowers by M. Norton
Whoosh! You see a hat pin sail across the room, much like a javelin, and pin onto the lace curtain. Then, a small man no more than six inches tall scurries across the room. Welcome to the world of the Borrowers; Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock. They live under the floorboards and borrow anything from potatoes to blotting paper. The tiny people live in an old country house, inhabited by ...

Ginger Pye (Young Classic)

71 reviews
Eleanor Estes

Odyssey Classics, 2000

unbeliveabull book!!! 11 year old mohmad sabha
First of all this book is called ginger pye a great book. And this book is about a boy and a dog best friends this is a tastefull boo putten into very good words by the author elenore Estes. It is detailed very well and its about.... so one day a boy saw a dog being sold at a farm he seemed smarter than all the others and the boy wanted him like you love at first sight this was wanting at first ...

Mystery of the Roman Ransom

8 reviews
Henry Winterfeld

Odyssey Classics, 2002

Winterfled has done it again!
The detectives in toga are back! Ever read the first one? You should; this is a rare things: a sequal as good as the original. This time, it's Caius that's in trouble (read the book to find out just how and why). It all started when the boys decided to buy their teacher a birthday present, and got him (they think) a deaf and dumb slave named Udo. That's just the start of their troubles, ...

The Children of Green Knowe

22 reviews
L. M. Boston

Odyssey Classics, 2002

Loved it then, love it now
I first read this book when I was a child (in the 60's) and immediately fell in love with it. It has everything I adore in a book; a little magic, a little ghostliness; an English castle; lovely animal companions; characters from times past; people with manners, morals and down to earth values and last but not least--love. I have re-read this book many times and have just finished listening to ...

"B" Is for Betsy

16 reviews
Carolyn Haywood

Odyssey Classics, 2004

A memory of a sweeter time
I read this book 30 years ago when I was in elementary school. It was probably the first "chapter" book I read. The story is sweet and simple and innocent. It harkens back to a time when children played and acted as children and the family was truly a family. When the fears children had were things like first days of school and crossing the street, not terrorism and pedophiles. Children in the ...

The Borrowers Afield

7 reviews
Mary Norton

Odyssey Classics, 2003

Book Two in a Classic Series
Long before there were Littles or anyone shrunk their children, Mary Norton had written this warm and wonderful series about a race of tiny people who live hidden in quiet country houses and "borrow" their livings from the human inhabitants. Their lives depend on remaining unseen and unsuspected. But little Arietty Clock, who lives with her parents (Pod and Homily) is a naturally curious girl ...

The Borrowers Afloat

6 reviews
Mary Norton

Odyssey Classics, 2003

More adventures with the Borrowers
In this, the third book in the Borrowers series (after The Borrowers, and The Borrowers Afield), the Clocks (Pod, Homily and Arrietty) find that they must leave the safety of their new house and venture forth once again into the great big world. Setting their sights on Little Fordham, a miniature model town, the Clocks follow young Spiller out. But the world is a dangerous place for someone as ...

Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

2 reviews
Louis Haber

Odyssey Classics, 2007

Information that is not well known, but is important to ALL!
I was extremely pleased to find this book. Young African Americans need to know that they, too, have as rich a contribution in the development of the history of the United States as other Americans. This information is not found in history books. Without books like this, no one would know the extensive contributions that African Americans have made to the development of our nation. I had a ...

The Gammage Cup

32 reviews
Carol Kendall

Odyssey Classics, 2000

Nonconformists -- remember them?
Merriam-Webester defines nonconformist this way: "1. a person who does not conform to an established church; especially: one who does not conform to the Church of England and 2 : a person who does not conform to a generally accepted pattern of thought or action. When Carol Kendall wrote this book in the late 1950's, it was partly a response the scourge of McCarthyism. Now, in an America ...

Mary Poppins: Three Enchanting Classics: Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, and Mary Poppins Opens the ...

2 reviews
P. L. Travers

Odyssey Classics, 2006

Remember the days
when you used to find a nice quiet spot, away from all disturbances and jump headfirst into the adventures of the Banks children and Mary Poppins? I do. These stories are among the best children's literature ever written. They are right up there with the Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland and all those British classics. Take my advice. Grab the entire series. Find a nice quiet spot. ...

Mary Poppins (Odyssey Classics)

41 reviews
P.L. Travers

Odyssey Classics, 1997

The Nanny-The Myth-The Legend
When P.L. Travers first wrote Mary Poppins in 1934, she probably didn't know how popular it would be with young people 72 years later. She also probably didn't know that this would end up being my favorite book of all time! I often thought that every book was my favorite (for example, The Wizard of Oz, Bunnicula, Detectives in Togas, Eye of the Storm, The Secret Garden, and the Little ...

Seven-Day Magic (Books for Young Readers)

18 reviews
Edward Eager

Odyssey Classics, 1999

Eager's Masterpice
Seven-Day Magic Book Review Edward Eager Andrew Barnaby, Abbie, Fredericka, John, and Susan LOVE books! Every Saturday they go to the library and take out some. When the story starts, they are sitting in the library. "The best kind of book is a magic book," said Barnaby. "Naturally," said John. "The best kind of magic book," said Barnaby, "is when it's about ordinary people like ...

The Perilous Road (Odyssey Classics (Odyssey Classics))

9 reviews
William O. Steele

Odyssey Classics, 2004

the coolest book ever
the perilous road book is the best book ever i dont like reading but know i love reading.it about chris b hate the uion troops. and he thinks silus is a spy later tourchd the end he went to the yankee camp and thought that it was war that is the worst thing ever and it can tear pepole apart.and he finds out that silus is not a spy.

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