This title provides de luxe box set containing BBC radio full-cast dramatisations of six classic children's stories: "Treasure Island"; "The Railway Children"; "The Secret Garden"; "Tom's Midnight"; "Garden Swallows"; and "Amazons Heidi". This title includes twelve cassettes/CDs: Sixteen-page booklet with cast lists and biographies of each author. It's running time is: 12 hours approx. It is the perfect collection for all to cherish.

 

This book is an anthology. This book was published 2004 by AudioGO Limited .

Robert Louis Stevenson is perhaps best-known today for 'Treasure Island' and 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. Edith Nesbit was an English author and poet who published over 60 books of fiction for children under her pen name E. Nesbit. Philippa Pearce was a beloved children's writer. Her titles include Here Comes Tod, Minnow on the Say, The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award) and the classic Tom's Midnight Garden, for which she was awarded the Carnegie Medal. Philippa passed away in 2006. Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Arthur Ransome was born in 1884. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District of England with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. Thus began a writing career that has produced some of the best children s literature of all time. " Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.