ALMA CLASSICS NEW BOOK INFORMATION CHILDREN’S LIST Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett Illustrated by Peter Bailey “What the Earl saw was a graceful, childish figure in a black velvet suit, with a lace collar, and with lovelocks waving about the handsome, manly little face, whose eyes met his with a look of innocent good-fellowship.”

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• New edition of one of the most popular children’s classics

• Illustrated by Peter Bailey

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• Includes extra material for young readers

• The debut children’s work from the much-loved author of The Secret SERIES: Alma Classics / Garden Children January 26th 2017 • £7.99 DESCRIPTION: 978-1-84749-635-5 Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal 256 pp • PB American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfather, the Earl Subject: YFA of Dorincourt, he is actually Lord Fauntleroy, and is expected to become an English Age Range: 9–11 gentleman. Whisked away from his mother and his friends, Cedric must find a way to convince his grandfather to send him home and show him that there is more to nobility than titles and wealth.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR: First published in 1886, Little Lord Fauntleroy was Frances Hodgson Burnett’s first children’s novel, and was hugely popular in its day. It contains many of the themes that would recur in her masterpiece The Secret Garden, and remains a witty and charming tale of a transatlantic clash of cultures.

THE SECRET GARDEN £7.99 • 978-1-84749-573-0 ILLUSTRATED BY PETER BAILEY ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR: Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) Peter Bailey was born in India and grew was born in England and moved to the up in London. Since graduating from United States as a teenager. She is best Brighton College of Art, his career has remembered for her children’s novels Little seen him illustrate books by some of Brit- Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess and The ain’s best known authors including Allan Secret Garden. Ahlberg, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Joan Aiken and Tony Mitton.

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