The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters

Janet Ahlberg

This nostalgic classic, including real letters, is a must-have for every child. This gorgeously illustrated, full-color classic celebrates a time before email by depicting amusing correspondence between fairy tale and Mother Goose characters. What could possibly be in a letter from Goldilocks to the T...

Old Nurse's Story: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #39

Elizabeth Gaskell

'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...' A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from ...