The SPECIAL COLLECTION

Puffin Classics Girls Gift Set

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Boxed set of 3 new softcover books still in shrinkwrap. Each book measures 18 x 13cm. Published 2008.

Step into the world of the most famous characters of all time. Three of the best-loved family adventures ever written.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Introduced by Louise Rennison, bestselling and award-winning author of the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there's Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together they are the March sisters. Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away at war, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles, their happy times and sad ones too, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do. 400 pages

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Introduced by Adeline Yen Mah, New York Times bestselling author of Falling Leaves, Chinese Cinderella and other books.

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the centre of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature. 320 pages

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Introduced by Sophie Dahl, model, author and the inspiration for the character Sophie in The BFG, by her grandfather, Roald Dahl

After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined. 368 pages.

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The Special Collection: Set of 3 Puffin Classics in box: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett