Charles Santore Children's Classics | Main Natrona County Library

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1900

Summary

"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

2) The Silk Princess

Author

Santore, Charles

Earliest Publication Date

2007

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After a cocoon falls into her tea cup and unravels to form a long, delicate thread, Hsi-Ling Chi, a princess in ancient China, meets a mysterious man who reveals how to transform the cocoons into silk.

3) William the Curious: Knight of the Water Lilies

Author

Santore, Charles

Earliest Publication Date

1997

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A lowly frog teaches a beautiful queen about the dangers of pollution.