Young Jeffry Childers is an inquisitive, curious young boy with a keen interest in science and explosives. His experiments with explosions and torpedo designs get him into all...

Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm,...

First published in 1867, ‘Fighting the Flames’ by R.M. Ballantyne is set against the backdrop of the busy and newly formed London Fire Brigade. Recent recruit Frank Wilders is...

Even though Aunt Malle thinks that the young student who has come to teach Amalie’s brothers does not know how to deal with children, Amalie gets on very well with him and...

Joe Bronson a young, adventurous boy more interested in exploring than school is threatened with military school by his father when he fails an important exam. Taking his future...

If you think that the destiny of four pigs and one coach can’t become intertwined, you may as well grab Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Pigs”. When everything seems...

One day the Lord travelled in disguise wanting to test who will welcome him in his home. He knocked first on a rich man’s door but he was impolite and rude and sent the Lord...

Also published under the title ‘Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea’, ‘The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska’ is the first story in L. Frank Baum’s popular ‘Boy...

In Denmark, the railway is a string of pearls. In Europe, the pearls of this necklace are Paris, London, Vienna and Naples. Here, we see six pearls of the Danish railway and...

Bibi Blocksberg’s father, Bernhard, has never been fond of magic or witchcraft. So when he suddenly decides to become a witch, Bibi and her mom, Barbara are more than a little...