Read The Jungle Book

An orphan and a Tibetan lama on the Grand Trunk Road, and the Great Game; Kipling's India.

A Brahmin's son leaves the Buddha to find his own way, and finds it at a river.

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

Whitewashing the fence, the cave and Injun Joe; Twain's boyhood on the river.

Santiago, a marlin and the sharks; the novella that got Hemingway the Nobel.

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.