Four great tales from children's literature are adapted in this collection for readers 5 to 8, abridged and reimagined with color illustrations and page decoration. A handsome horse tells about life in Victorian England in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, while a powerful and intelligent dog realizes he needs to live free in Jack London's The Call of the Wild. The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's tale of a boy raised by animals in the Indian jungle, and in The Secret Garden by France Hodgson Burnett, we meet a trio of children who are rejuvenated by tending a hidden flower garden.