Hawthorne Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables

2011. - 114 p. Series: Calico illustrated classics. Adapted by Kathryn Lay, illustrated by Mike Lacey. Presents for Marmee. A Merry Christmas. The Laurence Boy. Being Neighborly. Jo Learns to Forgive. Secrets. Dark Days. A Secret Told. The First Wedding. Literary Lessons. Meg’s New Life. Amy Goes Abroad. Tender Troubles. Heartache. Beth’s Secret. New Impressions. The Valley of...

2010. - 114 p. Series: Calico illustrated classics. Adapted by Jan Fields. Illustrated by Ute Simon. The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924) was an...

2011. - 114 p. Series: Calico illustrated classics. Adapted by Karen Kelly. Illustrated by Mike Lacey. Deep inside the dreaded Bastille, a young prisoner has languished, his face hidden from all, for eight long years. He knows neither his true identity nor the crime that got him there. Then Aramis, one of the original three musketeers—the finest swordsmen in all of...

2010. - 114 p. Series: Calico illustrated classics. Adapted by Jan Fields. Illustrated by Eric Scott Fisher. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville (1819-1891), first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the...

2011. - 114 p. Series: Calico illustrated classics. Original text by Robert Louis Stevenson. Adapted by Lisa Mullarkey. Illustrated by Eric Scott Fisher. A kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.

2010. - 114 p. Series: Calico illustrated classics. Adapted by Kathryn Lay ; illustrated by Eric Scott Fisher. This is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano...