The Sea Lady
by H. G. Wells | 
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells | 
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf | 
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells | 
The Golden Ass
by Apuleius | 
The Hour of the Dragon
by Robert E. Howard | 
Nights At The Circus
by Angela Carter | 
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
by John Steinbeck | 
Wise Children
by Angela Carter | 
Beowulf
by Unknown | 
Phantastes
by George MacDonald | 
The Charwoman's Shadow
by Lord Dunsany | 
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales
by Jack Zipes | 
Walpurgisnacht
by Gustav Meyrink | 
The Adventures of Ulysses
by Bernard Evslin | 
The Enchanted Island of Yew
by L. Frank Baum | 
The Wood Beyond the World
by William Morris | 
The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty | 
The Well at the World's End
by William Morris | 
Beowulf
by Robert Nye |
Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two go in - and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors seem to move around the room, and the shopkeeper is most mysterious of all. Gip is thrilled by all he sees, and his father is at first amused, but when things become stranger and sinister father is no longer sure where reality ends and illusion begins. Fantastical illustrations underscore the macabre atmosphere of the tale, make this a perfect book read aloud together again and again.