Most Popular Books by Gillian Avery

Notable for their magnificent, jewel-like color illustrations by Bilibin, these traditional tales include "The Frog Princess," "Vassilissa the Beautiful," and "The White Duck." Though Russian Fairy Tales in the Pantheon Folklore Library is a book for adults, it has sold over 30,000 copies.

An account of children''s literature from colonial times to the early 20th century.

Because of her naughtiness, Ellen is denied the privilege of seeing the Queen with her class, but she determines to see her on her own anyway.

Contrasts the reality with the literary portrayal of the social conditions and daily life of various classes of Victorian people.

Pressured by his father to leave school for a career he doesn''t want, a nineteenth-century Manchester boy runs away and gains a new perspective on his future.

When her latest guardian dies, a twelve-year-old English girl is relieved when a distant cousin offers her a home in Italy.

A story set in Victorian times, of Mouldy, so called because her hair was like mouldy hay, who was dreamer and who thought how marvellous it would be if she could find a poor little orphan , so that she could take him home and mum could look after him. Her opportunity came on a school outing to a pantomime in Oxford, where she noticed a ragged boy outside the theatre and managed to smuggle him onto the train home and when she got home her mother was horrified. To bring home an orphan boy meant another mouth to feed and for Mouldy''s family, where there was not much money, this was bound to cause trouble.

A SLEEPY WELSH VILLAGE IS THE SETTING FOR A VICTORIAN MYSTERY THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN FOR YEARS.

A social history of nineteenth century England and the United States as reflected in the biographies, diaries, and letters of contemporary people.

Geïllustreerde geschiedenis van meisjessscholen in Engeland. Aandacht voor nonnenscholen, kostscholen, vriendschappen, godsdienst, discipline, crises en het onderwijzend personeel.

Twelve-year-old Margaret hardly knows whether to look forward to a chance to mingle with the famous at her cousins'' country home, or dread the mess her brothers'' mischief will make of the situation.