Read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Huck and Jim down the Mississippi on a raft; "all modern American literature comes from" it, said Hemingway.

Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and the map with an X; every pirate cliche starts here.

Mowgli, Bagheera, Baloo and Shere Khan; the law of the jungle.

A quiet Missouri professor's uneventful life; the forgotten novel that became a bestseller fifty years on.

Read J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit, along with the collection Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth.

Read the classic novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Find the fairy-tale treasures under the trees and remember where they were.

Down the rabbit hole with the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts; nonsense with logic underneath.