I’m sure it won’t take her long to devour them all, although I’m hoping that now she is nine she’ll still let me read with her so I can rediscover these absolute classics alongside her. She dived straight into Alice in Wonderland, no doubt prompted by the fantastic stage adaptation we saw at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre recently and has said she can’t wait to start The Railway Children, having previously read an abridged version for younger children. My daughter was thrilled when she opened the box on her birthday and saw so many books. But seeing the collection together is utterly wonderful. The back cover features a simple illustration and classic quote from each book.Įach individual book would make a treasured gift in its own right – perfect for a child’s birthday, Christmas or christening inscribed with a special message from the giver. ![]() The cloth-bound covers are embossed with gold writing and inside are thick pages with well-spaced text. But when they arrived I was thrilled to see what good quality they were. I could see from the photos that the books were beautifully bound in different colours and with attractive cover illustrations. With these children’s classics it seems they’ve captured the public’s imagination again with the affordable keepsake books already proving popular in the run-up to Christmas. Hertfordshire-based family business Wordsworth Editions shook up the book publishing world in the early 1990s, when they launched their range of paperback Classics, priced at just £1 each. ![]()
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