Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old

Every child deserves to meet the genie who escaped from the bottle, to sail with the castaway who learned to survive alone, to shrink into a world where giants tower and tiny kingdoms rise. This collection gathers the most extraordinary tales from the greatest adventure stories ever written, retold fresh for young readers who have not yet discovered them. Here are the stories that have fired children's imaginations for centuries: Aladdin's desperate escape from the Cave of Wonders, Robinson Crusoe's lonely vigil on a deserted shore, the tiny people of Lilliput and the enormous natives of Brobdingnag, swashbuckling scenes from Shakespeare's forests and castles, the heroic battles of Ivanhoe, and the outlandish lies Baron Munchausen tells around the fire. These are not polite nursery tales. They are wild, dangerous, funny, and strange. Part of the acclaimed Junior Classics series, this volume proves that some stories never grow old because they were never meant to be old. They were meant to be discovered, again and again, by every generation of children ready to be swept away.