Kathleen Olmstead

About the Author

Kathleen Olmstead is the author of several Classic Starts books, including Anne of Avonlea and Moby Dick, as well as Jacques Cousteau: A Life Under the Sea and Matthew Henson: The Quest for the North Pole, both in the Sterling Biographies series. She has also written three other Silver Penny Story books: Pied Piper of Hamelin, Thumbelina, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier.

Scott J. Wakefield graduated from Art Center College of Design and has worked as a freelance illustrator for national childrens magazines and major publishers such as Scholastic and McGraw-Hill. His most recent picture books are A Crack in the Night (Story-Express) and Woodchuck Chuck (Envision Books), and hes also illustrated The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood in the Silver Penny Story series. Scott lives with his family in Aurora, CO.

Classic Starts®: Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Karl James Mountford

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Classic Starts®: Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Karl James Mountford

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Classic Starts®: The Iliad

by Homer, Illustrated by Eric Freeberg, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead

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Classic Starts®: Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Afterword by Arthur Pober, Illustrated by Eric Freeberg

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Classic Starts®: Anne of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Dan Andreasen, Afterword by Arthur Pober

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Classic Starts®: Pollyanna

by Eleanor H. Porter, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Jamel Akib, Afterword by Arthur Pober

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Classic Starts®: Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Eric Freeberg, Afterword by Arthur Pober

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Classic Starts®: The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Jamel Akib, Afterword by Arthur Pober

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Classic Starts®: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

by Hugh Lofting, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Lucy Corvino, Afterword by Arthur Pober

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Classic Starts®: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Jamel Akib, Afterword by Arthur Pober

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Classic Starts®: White Fang

by Jack London, Abridged by Kathleen Olmstead, Illustrated by Dan Andreasen, Afterword by Arthur Pober

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