E Nesbit: 132 books

When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble...

Orphaned Edred and Elfrida Arden live with their aunt, who keeps disagreeable lodgers for their livelihood. When the siblings take an illicit field trip to see the decaying Arden Castle, their family's ancestral home, they meet the Mouldiwarp, a magical white mole. Then the news comes that a distant...

Edward has inherited some money, and he decides he'd like to tramp around England a bit. At his first stop he befriends a young boy and builds him a toy airplane. But his country idyll takes an adventurous turn when he happens upon a young woman who seems to be unnaturally nervous about her home life....

“The next thing that happened to us was very interesting. It was as real as the half-crowns—not just pretending. I shall try to write it as like a real book as I can. Of course we have read Mr Sherlock Holmes, as well as the yellow-covered books with pictures outside that are so badly printed; and...

MATILDA'S ears were red and shiny. So were her cheeks. Her hands were red too. This was because Pridmore had washed her. It was not the usual washing, which makes you clean and comfortable, but the "thorough good wash," which makes you burn and smart till you wish you could be like the poor...

When Mr. Devigne inherits a house from his aunt, he finds two pictures in the attic. One is of himself wearing old-fashioned clothes and the other is of a beautiful woman. One night he asks her to come out of the frame and lo and behold she does!

  NOW that I've nearly done my days,   And grown too stiff to sweep or sew,   I sit and think, till I'm amaze,   About what lots of things I know:   Things as I've found out one by one--   And when I'm fast down in the clay,   My knowing things and how they're done...

Very cute (not cloying) stories written from the viewpoint of cats and dogs. Contents Pussy tales: Too clever by half. The white Persian. A powerful friend. A silly question. The selfish pussy. Meddlesome pussy. Nine lives Doggy tales: Tinker. Rats!. The tables turned. A noble dog. The dyer's dog. The vain setter.

Cute collection of kids' stories about a variety of dragons: tiny gnat dragons, ice dragons, guard dragons and more.

What dreams the flower cups enfold   Within their fragrant leaves, Of meadow-ways grown fair with spring,   Soft mists that April weaves;     And cottage gardens where the scent     Of flowers is with the wood-smoke blent. The ceaseless ripple of the...

All round the year the changing suns and rains     Beat on men's work--to wreck and to decay--     But nature builds more perfectly than they,   Her changing unchanged sea resists, remains.   All round the year new flowers spring up to shew    ...

Classic / British English Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their parents. Then, suddenly, their father goes away. The children and their mother move to a smaller house near a railway line. Exciting things happen, and they make new friends. But where is their father? When is he coming home?

There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you may think; and Jimmy's name was James; and Kathleen was never called by her name at all, but Cathy, or Catty, or Puss Cat, when her brothers were pleased with her, and Scratch Cat...