Puffin classics

The Bastable children's well-meant attempts at earning money provide more fun than finance.

Cyril, Robert, Anthea, and Jane rescue a magic sand-fairy from a pet-shop cage. The creature leads them to an amulet which has the power to take them back in time.

Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother are longing for excitement when they discover that the carpet Mother bought in a junk shop is the answer to their prayers.

Four English children find a wonderful world of magic through an enchanted wishing ring.

Contains adaptations of thirteen tales told by a motley assortment of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, England in about 1387.

With the help of a mysterious fairy queen who provides monstrous but gentle creatures to aid him, a miner's son takes on the dangerous task of helping the king and princess confound their enemies and save the kingdom.

Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, grows up in British India and becomes involved in the British Secret Service.

An adaption of Jane Austen's novel in which two sisters of opposing temperaments share the pangs of tragic love.

An abridged version of the tale of Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, who is informed one day he has "great expectations" and is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

The story of three men who trek to the remote interior of Africa in search of a lost friend. At the end of their perilous journey, they find their friend and the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon.