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Books in the British genre:

See the Rabbit (1998)

An early book for babies.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Janet Ahlberg

Shine a Light (1998)

Shine a flashlight through the cut-outs to project spooky pictures on the wall.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Janet Ahlberg

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1999)

A contemporary Alice by an award-winning illustrator.

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Helen Oxenbury

Greenaway Medal
Greenaway Medal - 1999

Five Children and It (1999)

Five children on holiday discover a sand fairy in a local quarry -- and it grants their wishes, with sometimes surprising results.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Paul O. Zelinsky

The Narnia Trivia Book (1999)

Everything you could possibly want to know about Narnia.

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Railway Children (1999)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Inga Moore

The Three Sillies (1999)

A young man thinks his sweetheart and her family are the silliest people in the world until he meets the three sillies. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

A Treasury of Narnia The Story of C.S. Lewis and His Chronicles of Narnia (1999)

A compendium of information about all things Lewis and Narnia.

Author(s): Alison Sage
Brian Sibley
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Two Towers (1999)

In volume two of The Lord of the Rings, the fellowship is sundered. Frodo, Sam and Gollum to Mordor, Merry and Pippin to Isengard and Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli to Rohan.... View More

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

The Church Mice Take a Break (2000)

When the vestry mice and Sampson are stranded at a seaside resort, they have to resort to the sea to retrieve their fossil ticket home.

Author(s): Graham Oakley
Illustrator(s): Graham Oakley

The Code of the Woosters (2000)

Bertie is commanded by his good aunt Dahlia to obtain, at all costs, including skulduggery, a silver cow creamer. At the same time he must guide the nuptials of Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett to a successful conclusion. Affairs are further c... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Pigs Have Wings (2000)

The Shropshire Agricultural Show is coming up and it is pig stealing time as Gally grabs Sir Gregory Parsloe’s Queen of Matchingham and George Cyril Wellbeloved, former pigman to Lord Emsworth, now in Parsloe’s employ goes for the Empress... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Right Ho, Jeeves (2000)

Aunt Dahlia, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, Tuppy Glossop and Bertie and Jeeves -- what you might call a Wodehouse full house. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

The Tale of Peter Rabbit (2000)

Once there were four bunnies, Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. Peter disobeys his mother and goes into Mr. McGregor’s garden. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

A Wind in the Willows Christmas (2000)

In this excerpt from The Wind in the Willows, mole returns to his home, having spent the summer and autumn with his friend rat. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

The Ballad of the White Horse (2001)

A poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great.Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.... View More

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Robert Austin

The Book of Pirates (2001)

A collection of classic stories of pirates and treasure.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

Hilary Knight’s the Owl and the Pussy-Cat (2001)

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat.

Author(s): Douglas Colby
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

Hilary Knight’s The Twelve Days of Christmas (2001)

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me …

This new edition is in a slightly larger format and includes new endpapers and sheet music.

Author(s): Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (2001)

Bertie finds himself once more at Brinkley Court, sampling the delights of Anatole’s cooking while attempting to help Aunt Dahlia sell off her magazine.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

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