#ChildrenClassic
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Books, Classic, Fictions
A Christmas Carol, Writer: Charles Dickens:
About the Author
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1812. He received little formal education as the conditions at home forced him to leave school and work in a factory at an early age. His early circumstances left a lasting impression on Dickens and greatly influenced his work, be it literary or philanthropic. Having worked in various professions, Dickens started writing in newspapers and magazines and most of his work was published as monthly serials in them. Dickens was a prolific writer. He wrote over a dozen novels, many a collection of short stories, a large body of non-fiction and poetic works, and many plays. He was arguably the best Victorian novelist and enjoyed great fame during his lifetime. He died in 1870 but even today he is one of the most popular authors, of all times
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A Little Princess ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Frances Hodgson Burnett
About the Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in England in 1849. She was only three years old when her father died. Consequently, her family faced financial issues and moved to America in 1865. It was there to support her family that Burnett started publishing her early works in magazines. This sharpened her writing skills and she wrote her first novel That Lass O Lorrie s in 1877. There was no stopping her then. She wrote many fictional and dramatic works of which most enduring are her two children novels A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. Burnett died in 1924.
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Anne Of Green Gables (Readings Classics): Writer: l. m. Montgomery :
About the Author
L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery) was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1874. She became famous as the writer of Anne of Green Gables which was an immediate success and won Montgomery an international following. As soon as she graduated, she started to teach. This profession allowed her plenty of time to hone her craft as a writer. She published approximately 100 short stories in journals and newspapers and her storytelling attracted a wide audience and, because of her matchless creativity, almost everything she wrote became a success. She died in 1942, leaving behind an enduring legacy of bestselling books
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Around the World in Eighty Days: Writer: Jules Verne:
About the Author
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French writer, poet and playwright. Dubbed sometimes as the Father of Science Fiction, he had a great influence on many latter day science fiction writers and scientists. Apart from other works, he wrote Voyages extraordinaire, an adventure/science fiction series of over 50 novels many of which are still highly popular among both adults and children. He is the second most translated writer in the world.
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Books, Children, Picture Books
Bi Khokho Ki Naak: (بی کھوکھو کی ناک)Writer : Muhammad Salim-Ur-Rehman
Books, Children, Picture BooksBi Khokho Ki Naak: (بی کھوکھو کی ناک)Writer : Muhammad Salim-Ur-Rehman
ایم سلیم الرحمٰن کی دلکش اور عجیب و غریب بچوں کی کتاب دو کھوکھو کی ناک یقینی طور پر نوجوان قارئین کو تفریح اور ہدایت دیتی ہے۔ اس دلکش ناول کا مرکزی کردار بی کھوکھو ہے، جس کی ناک ایک دل لگی اور دلفریب کہانی کا مرکز بن جاتی ہے۔ بی کھوکھو، جو ایک چھوٹے سے گاؤں میں رہتی ہے، غیر معمولی طور پر بڑی ناک رکھنے کے لیے مشہور ہے، جس کے بارے میں بچے اکثر دل لگی اور اسے چھیڑتے ہیں۔ لیکن بی کھوکھو ایک ہوشیار اور ہمدرد عورت ہے جو ہر چیز کو خوش اسلوبی سے قبول کرتی ہے۔ جب بی کھوکھو کی ناک جادوئی صلاحیتوں کا مظاہرہ کرنے لگتی ہے تو کہانی ایک غیر متوقع موڑ لیتی ہے اور دلکش اور مزاحیہ واقعات کے سلسلے میں سامنے آتی ہے جو نوجوان قارئین کی دلچسپی کو متاثر کرتے ہیں۔
ایم سلیم الرحمٰن کی دلچسپ اور دلفریب کہانی سنانے نے دو کھوکھو کی ناک کو 4 سے 8 سال کی عمر کے بچوں کے لیے ایک مثالی کتاب بنا دیا ہے۔ کتاب روشن تصاویر سے اضافی لطف حاصل کرتی ہے، جو کتاب کی مجموعی بصری کشش اور پڑھنے کے تجربے کو بھی بہتر بناتی ہے۔ محض ایک کہانی سے بڑھ کر، Bi Khokho Ki Naak ہمیں قبولیت، محبت اور ہم سب کے پاس موجود طاقت کے بارے میں سکھاتا ہے۔ یہ دلکش کتاب کسی بھی بچے کی لائبریری میں ایک بہترین اضافہ ہے کیونکہ اس میں ایڈونچر، لطف اندوزی، اور زندگی کے اہم اسباق کو یکجا کیا گیا ہے جو والدین اور نوجوان قارئین دونوں کو قابل رشک معلوم ہوگا
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Black Beauty ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Anna Sewell
About the Author
Anna Sewell (1820-1878) was a British writer who had a strong love for horses and became quite sensitive to their nature and behavior. After a childhood injury, she was confined to her house as an invalid and got around largely by horse-drawn carriages. Though, she had difficulty in walking, she could drive a carriage. She spent her last years writing the children’s classic Black Beauty (1877), a fictional autobiography of a gentle, highbred horse. She died just five months after her book was published.
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Five Children and It,(Reading Classic): Writer: E. Nesbit
About the Author
E. Nesbit (Edith Nesbit) was an English writer who lived from 1858 to 1924. Although she wrote for adults too, her fame chiefly rests upon the fictional and poetic works she penned down for children. She wrote as many as 40 children books including novels, short stories and picture books of which many are still extremely popular. Her famous works include Enchanted Castle, Railway Children, Five Children and It etc..
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Heidi ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Johanna Spyri
About the Author
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was a Swiss short story writer and novelist famous for her writings for both adults and children. She was born at Hazel, Switzerland. After getting married to a lawyer, she shifted to Zurich. She missed her rural life and liked it more than her urban surroundings and, therefore, she started celebrating the countryside in her work. In 1884, her husband and her only child died. This tragedy turned her towards philanthropy. She continued both her creative and humanitarian work till her death. Her services were honored in 1951 and 2009 by the issuance, respectively, of a postage stamp and a coin bearing her picture.
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Just So Stories,(Reading Classic): Writer: Rudyard Kipling
About the Author
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 30 December 1865. Having spent his early childhood in India Kipling went to study in England but returned to India at the age of 18 and joined as an assistant editor the Civil and Military Gazette, a small newspaper in Lahore. It was during his Lahore days that Kipling published his first book. He drew inspiration for most of his writings including the famous Jungle Books from India. He was a writer par excellence and wrote both prose and verse for adults and children alike prolifically. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Kipling died in London on 18 January 1936.
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Oliver Twist ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Charles Dickens
About the Author
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
Pinocchio ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Carlo Collodi
About the Author
Carlo Lorenzini, popularly known by his pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian writer, children s author and journalist. He was born in Florence on November 24, 1826. He is best known as the creator of Pinocchio, living puppet whose adventures are famous among children around the world. His other notable works include Giannettino, and Minuzzolo. His magnum opus Pinocchio was adapted by Disney in a motion picture in 1940 and became one of Disney s greatest animation. Collodi died in his home town on October 26, 1890 at the age of 63.
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Prince Caspian- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 4) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
Books, Classic, FictionsPrince Caspian- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 4) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
About the Author
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898. He was a prolific writer and wrote more than 30 books on subjects both scholarly and fictional. He wrote fiction for both adults and children which includes very popular The Space Trilogy for adults and The Chronicles of Narnia for children. He died in 1963.
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Robinson Crusoe ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Daniel Defoe
About the Author
Daniel Defoe was many people in one man: a trader, a writer, a traveller, and a spy. He was born in London on September 13, 1660. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe and is considered among the founders of the English novel along with Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. His other notable fictional works include The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720), A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and Moll Flanders (1722). Defoe also wrote various pamphlets, often giving a critical judgement on the current political scenarios. His An Essay upon Projects (1697) was published as a series which advocated social and economic improvements. He also satirised the English notion of racial purity in his poem “The True-Born Englishman” (1701). Defoe died at the age of 70 in London on April 24, 1731.
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Sense and Sensibility ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Jane Austen
About the Author
One of all time literary favorites, Jane Austen was born at Steventon rectory, England on December 16, 1775. She started writing poems, stories and plays as early as 1787 which she compiled in three bound notebooks. Those early works were later published as Juvenilia. Then, she wrote Lady Susan, a novella in epistolary form. However, it remained unpublished for a long time. Having written Lady Susan, she penned down six novels, four of which were published during her life as follows: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). Northanger Abbey (1818) and Persuasion (1818) were published posthumously. Two of her novels The Watsons and Sanditon, though published later on, remained unfinished. Austen died on July 18, 1817.
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Tales From Shakespeare ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Charles & Mary Lamb
About the Author
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English writer, poet and essayist. Mary Lamb (1764-1847) was his elder sister. She was also a writer and poet. Both of them were part of a literary circle which included the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Today, they are best known for Tales from Shakespeare, a prose retelling of Shakespearean plays for children.
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The adventures Of Tom Sawyer ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Mark Twain
About the Author
Mark Twain (originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was born on 30 November 1835. Mark Twain is the most famous of many pen names Clemens used in his literary career. One of the great American writers, Twain wrote prolifically. His writings include novels, short stories, travelogues, letters, journalistic papers etc. His novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn enjoy a special place in world literature. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is usually dubbed as the Great American Novel. Twain was also considered the greatest humorist of his time. He died on 21 April 1910.
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The Chronicles Of Narnia Box Set: 7 Books Box Set ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
Books, Classic, FictionsThe Chronicles Of Narnia Box Set: 7 Books Box Set ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
About the Author
CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a fellow and tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics, the Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.
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The Enchanted Castle ,(Reading Classic): Writer: E. Nesbit
About the Author
E. Nesbit (Edith Nesbit) was an English writer who lived from 1858 to 1924. Although she wrote for adults too, her fame chiefly rests upon the fictional and poetic works she penned down for children. She wrote as many as 40 children books including novels, short stories and picture books of which many are still extremely popular. Her famous works include The Enchanted Castle, The Railway Children, Five Children and It etc.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
The Horse and His Boy- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 3) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
Books, Classic, FictionsThe Horse and His Boy- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 3) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
About the Author
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898. He was a prolific writer and wrote more than 30 books on subjects both scholarly and fictional. He wrote fiction for both adults and children which includes very popular The Space Trilogy for adults and The Chronicles of Narnia for children. He died in 1963.
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The Jungle Book ,(Reading Classic): Writer: Rudyard Kipling
About the Author
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 30 December 1865. Having spent his early childhood in India Kipling went to study in England but returned to India at the age of 18 and joined as an assistant editor the Civil and Military Gazette, a small newspaper in Lahore. It was during his Lahore days that Kipling published his first book. He drew inspiration for most of his writings including the famous Jungle Books from India. He was a writer par excellence and wrote both prose and verse for adults and children alike prolifically. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. Kipling died in London on 18 January 1936.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
The Last Battle- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 7) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
Books, Classic, FictionsThe Last Battle- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 7) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
About the Author
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898. He was a prolific writer and wrote more than 30 books on subjects both scholarly and fictional. He wrote fiction for both adults and children which includes very popular The Space Trilogy for adults and The Chronicles of Narnia for children. He died in 1963.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 2) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
Books, Classic, FictionsThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe- The Chronicles Of Narnia (Book 2) ,(Reading Classic): Writer: C.S Lewis
About the Author
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898. He was a prolific writer and wrote more than 30 books on subjects both scholarly and fictional. He wrote fiction for both adults and children which includes very popular The Space Trilogy for adults and The Chronicles of Narnia for children. He died in 1963.
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Books, Classic, Fictions
The Little Prince,(Reading Classic): Writer: Antoine De Saint Exupery
About the Author
Antoine De Saint-Exupery was born in 1900 in Lyon. In 1921, he began his training as a pilot By 1926, he had became one of the pioneers of international postal flight. In 1935 he embarked on a record-breaking attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon. Nineteen hours into the flight, his plane crashed in the Sahara desert. He survived the crash but spent three days battling dehydration, limited food and hallucinations. On the fourth day, the was rescued. In part, this experience was the inspiration for The Little Prince. He continued to fly until World War II, during which he took self-imposed exile. On 31 July 1944, he disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission.
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