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Jam-packed with adventure, this was one of my family's favourite Usborne books. I had never read The Prisoner of Zenda nor The 39 Steps, but both are among the stories included in this volume.

My six-year-old liked Don Quixote cause it was so silly. She also liked the Three Musketeers. I liked 39 steps as I previously had not read this. All in all it was good. We really enjoyed these stories and it was an opportunity to talk about a lot of topics together.

Yay for children's books!

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Not a children's book, despite the cover and marketing. The idea of reading your little guy (mine is 7) great works of (abridged) literature may be tempting, but don't do it! We started with the 39 Steps and then went on to The Count of Monte Cristo. Lots of death and people consumed by hatred after Leggi tutto

I like this series of books for (very) abridged versions of classic stories. I think of versions like these should be approached in the way we read The Jesus Storybook Bible (or other children's Bible storybooks)--as an introduction to the real thing, so that when they DO read the real then (as we e Leggi tutto