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"Choosing a new book was like looking for a treasure. Theo always took a good long time. First she examined some paperbacks on a revolving stand. But they were mostly novels about one girl or one boy with a problem... That wasn't what she wanted... At her last school there had only been paperbacks. But this new library was the best kind--it didn't throw out its old books. They looked ugly, with their thick, plain covers. But the dull outsides concealed the best stories." -- Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming
"A white-painted shelf still held the beloved storybooks, the Andrew Langs and the Arthur Ransomes and the C. S. Lewises, their battered covers containing each its bright autonomous worls, those magical kingdoms one if made free of a a child, and therafter owns all one's life." -- Mary Stewart, Touch Not the Cat
Welcome to the Apple Orchard!
This is a page for adults who love children's books; it's named in honor of Eleanor Farjeon's Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard. (You can read Martin Pippin online, courtesy of Project Guttenberg.) The apple orchard is the setting for some wonderful tale-spinning, all in the noble cause of true love.
I am currently working on several bibliographies of children's books, which will include reprinted classics and good reads for grown-ups. The first bibliography up is of Winter and Winter Holiday Books.
Other Web Pages About Classic Children's Books
This page is maintained by Wendy E. Betts, editor of Notes from the Windowsill.