Product Description: A version of the popular seasonal verse, which evokes the romance and enchantment of a Victorian Christmas. The illustrations each focus on a traditional children's plaything to tell a story of a brother and sister giving and receiving a succession of unusual gifts.

Product Description: A greedy child sends his parents on a long journey to capture the moon, the sun, and the stars. The world goes dark and the boy becomes lonely, but learns that human company has the greatest value of all. From the author of Mistress Moonwater and The Truth about Santa Claus.

A colorfully illustrated Celtic version of the Cinderella story follows the adventures of the young princess Oona, who is mistreated by her wicked sisters until her foster mother reveals her magical powers.

A velveteen rabbit is given to a little boy for Christmas but is put in the toy box, where he is snubbed by the other toys. Only the horse is kind to him and tells him that if a child loves a toy enough it becomes real. One night the nanny gives the child the rabbit and the two become inseparable.

More than fifty poems about ghosts, goblins, spirits, and bogeymen--by such poets such as Carl Sandburg, Ted Hughes, Emily Bronte, Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare and Walter de la Mare--populate a poetry collection for children.

Product Description: A collection of nursery rhymes and stories including: "Humpty Dumpty"; "Little Miss Muffet", "Hey Diddle Diddle"; "Jack and Jill"; "The Three Little Pigs"; "Little Red Ridinghood; and "Puss in Boots".

More than fifty poems about ghosts, goblins, spirits, and bogeymen--by such poets as Carl Sandburg, Ted Hughes, Emily Brontë, Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, and Walter de la Mare--populate a poetry collection for children. Originally published as The Whispering Room. Reprint.