This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Children's LiteratureFor more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:Kenneth Grahame:- The Twenty-First of October- Dies Irae- Mutabile Semper- The Magic Ring- Its Walls Were as of Jasper- A Saga of the Seas- The Reluctant DragonL. Frank Baum:- A Kidnapped Santa Claus- The Man In The Moon- Little Dorothy and Toto- Ozma and the Little Wizard- The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger- The Scarecrow and The Tin Woodman- How The Beggars Came To TownLaura E. Richards:- Maine to the Rescue- The Coming of the King- The Golden Windows- The Shed Chamber- The Green Satin Gown- The Scarlet Leaves- Don AlonzoLouisa May Alcott:- A Modern Cinderella- My Red Cap- A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True- An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving- Aunt Kipp- Rosy's Journey- The BrothersMaria Edgeworth:- The Grateful Negro- The Prussian Vase- The Good Aunt- The Good French Governess- The Orphans- The False Key- Tarlton

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature.Lyman Frank Baum was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and the nascent medium of film; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book would become a landmark of 20th-century cinema.Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 - January 14, 1943) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a high-profile family. During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children's, biographies, poetry, and others. A well-known children's poem for which she is noted is the literary nonsense verse "Eletelephony."Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer and poet better known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo.