The Vancouver Sun Classic Children's Book Collection Explained

The Vancouver Sun Classic Children's Book Collection is a set of 32 novels published by The Vancouver Sun from 2004-2005. The novels could only be purchased by presenting a coupon from the newspaper and paying the stated amount of money to a store which sold the novel. The first novel, The Jungle Book, was offered for free when its coupon was presented. The series was intended to be read by children to increase interest in reading.

The novels in the series are listed here:

TitleAuthorFirst PublishedVancouver Sun Edition Published
1The Jungle BookRudyard Kipling18942004
2The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett19112004
3FrankensteinMary Shelley18182004
4Anne of Green GablesLucy Maud Montgomery19112004
5Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift17262004
6The Swiss Family RobinsonJohann David Wyss18122004
7Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll18652004
8Peter PanJames Mathew Barrie19372004
9A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens18432004
10Grimm's Fairy TalesJacob Grimm18232004
11Little WomenLouisa May Alcott18682004
12Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne18702004
13The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame19082004
14Oliver TwistCharles Dickens1837-18382004
15Pinocchio Carlo Collodi18822004
16Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe17192004
17The Wonderful Wizard of OzLyman Frank Baum19002004
18The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain18842004
19The Story of Dr. DolittleHugh Lofting19202004
20The BorrowersMary Norton19522004
21Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson18832005
22Black BeautyAnna Sewell18772005
23The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas, père18442005
24Ballet ShoesNoel Streatfeild19362005
25Rip Van WinkleWashington Irving19052005
26The Indian in the CupboardLynne Reid Banks19802005
27The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle19022005
28The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain18762005
29The Scarlet PimpernelBaroness Orczy19132005
30Bedknobs and BroomsticksMary Norton19452005
31IvanhoeWalter Scott17912005
32Moby-DickHerman Melville18512005