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"Three centuries after Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe, this gripping tale of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being ultimately rescued, remains a classic of the adventure genre and is widely considered the first great English novel. But the book also has much to teach us, in retrospect, about entrenched attitudes of colonizers toward the colonized...

The Velveteen Rabbit (1922) is a children's book by Margery Williams Bianco. Illustrated by renowned British painter William Nicholson, The Velveteen Rabbit has endured as a children's classic for nearly a century. Adapted numerous times for film and television, Bianco's heartwarming story is beloved for its universal and timeless morals by children and adults alike. Gifted to a young boy on Christmas day, the velveteen rabbit is soon cast aside...

Retells the classic fairy tale about a mistreated girl who, with the help of her fairy godmother, attends the palace ball and dances with the prince.

Hansel and Gretel wander through the woods as they try to find their way home, and spot a house made of candy! The old woman inside promises them good things to eat, but what she has in mind in anything but sweet!

Geppetto is glad when one of his puppets comes to life. He calls the little wooden boy Pinocchio and raises him as his son. Pinocchio wants to be just like real boys, but as he sets out in the real world, it doesn't take long for him to get in trouble.

A clever fox uses flattery to outwit a vain raven and thereby obtain his piece of cheese.