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By: Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) | |
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A Waif of the Mountains |
By: Asa Don Dickinson (1876-1960) | |
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Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
This charming book has many stories that deal mostly with the holiday of Thanksgiving, perfectly suited for family listening and reading. and gathers in one volume tales of tasty turkeys, festive parties, generous gestures, and holiday cheer. The stories featured include works by such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. So if you want to listen to some great stories that bring out gratitude for life and a thanksgiving attitude, here are a bunch of the best. |
By: Sister M. Imelda Wallace, S.L. (1884-?) | |
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Outlaws of Ravenhurst
This exciting historical adventure depicts the last stand of the Gordons - God's "outlaws" - fighting for their Catholic Faith in the early days of the Protestant Revolution in seventeenth-century Scotland. | |
By: Howard R. Garis (1873-1962) | |
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Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard
Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these stories, he encounters a string of characters from Mother Goose's tales and has adventures that are not quite in keeping with her books!These gentle tales are 7 - 8 minutes each and quite suited to a nightly reading to a small child. (Intro by Mark F. Smith) | |
Umboo, The Elephant
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be in a circus? What if, rather than choosing to be in one, you were captured and taken away from the home and family you knew and made to perform in the heat of a big top? Meet Umboo, the elephant, Chako, the monkey, Snarlie, the tiger and their circus friends and learn how life in the jungle was different from life in the circus. |
By: Arthur M. Winfield (1862-1930) | |
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The Rover Boys at School
First of the famous Rover Boys books by future Hardy Boys creator Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Arthur M Winfield), this is an introduction to the fun-loving teenage Rover Brothers -- Dick, Tom & Sam. Virtual orphans, they are sent by their prudish Uncle Randolph to a military boarding school and their adventures soon begin! |
By: Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926) | |
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Careers of Danger and Daring
In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered dramatic scenes from the lives of the steeple climber, the diver, the balloonist,the pilot, the bridge builder, the fireman, the aerial acrobat, the wild animal trainer, the dynamite worker and lastly the locomotive driver. |
By: Eva Lecomte | |
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Paula the Waldensian
Into the home of an interesting but self-centered family in old France comes Paula, a young orphaned cousin, from the little village of Villar, in the Waldensian Valley. Though living very simply, tending cows, goats, sheep and rabbits, Paula has been brought up to know and love the Lord Jesus and read the Scriptures. Her Lord and His Word are the center of her life, and she can no more keep this good news all to herself than she can stop breathing or eating. This causes a good many complications, for her cousins' home was one where "religion" was a forbidden subject, never to be mentioned, and Paula soon found herself forbidden to read her own precious Bible... |
By: Sophie Ségur (1799-1874) | |
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Old French Fairy Tales |
By: Annie F. Johnston (1863-1931) | |
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The Little Colonel's House Party
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her beautiful home in Kentucky. The children come from very different homes, but fall into the new ways very readily. The account of their escapades will amuse young readers. A bit of disobedience on the part of one spoiled girl leads to something of a tragedy, in which Betty, the nicest of the children, is the sufferer.This series for girls from the early 1900’s, begun... | |
The Little Colonel's Hero
In this sixth volume of “The Little Colonel Series” for girls, Lloyd is surprised with a gift for her twelfth birthday, of a summer trip to Europe. In Geneva she becomes friends with an old Prussian major and his Red Cross dog, a St. Bernard named Hero. Through many adventures, in the end the Little Colonel learns the true meaning of selfless duty. | |
The Rescue of the Princess Winsome A Fairy Play for Old and Young | |
Big Brother | |
Ole Mammy's Torment |
By: Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) | |
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The Parent's Assistant |
By: Logan Marshall (1884-?) | |
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Wonder Book of Bible Stories
It is with the desire of aiding parents and teachers in telling these stories, and aiding children to understand them, also in the hope that they may be read in many schools, that a few among the many interesting stories in the Bible have been chosen, brought together and as far as necessary simplified to meet the minds of the young. - Introduction by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut inside the book itself. |
By: Amy Ella Blanchard (1856-1926) | |
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A Sweet Little Maid
Dimple, the nine-year-old little girl is accustomed to being always the first. She has Bubbles, a little coloured girl as playmate and servant. One day Dimple’s cousin, Florence comes to visit her and they have a wonderful time together. But then come the rainy days and the two children easily get bored in the house… and that’s how the adventures and troubles begin. |
By: Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810-1896) | |
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My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim |
By: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) | |
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The Crofton Boys |
By: Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) | |
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Rock Crystal
On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th century Austrian master Adalbert Stifter, influenced Thomas Mann and others with its suspenseful, simple, myth-like story and majestic depictions of nature. Poet W.H. Auden called the work "a quiet and beautiful parable about the relation of people to places, of man to nature."(Introduction by Greg W.) |
By: Hans Aanrud (1863-1953) | |
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Lisbeth Longfrock or Sidsel Sidsærkin
Lisbeth Longfrock - (Sidsel Sidsærkin in its original Norwegian) was seen by the author as a book written for adults, telling the story of a young girl growing up in a farming district in a steep-sided Norwegian Valley. It was first written when the author's daughter was 8 years old, the age of Lisbeth when the book begins, so she would know about his childhood spent in similar surroundings, living on a farm and spending summer in charge of the cows and goats on the mountain pastures. |
By: Timothy S. Arthur (1809-1885) | |
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Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories |
By: Jessie Graham Flower (-1931) | |
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Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer
The College Girls Series sees the friends part ways: Grace, Anne, and Miriam depart for Overton College, while Jessica and Nora attend a conservatory. The Eight Originals gather on holidays, but the seven College books focus on the three at Overton, along with new friends like J. Elfreda Briggs. They form Semper Fidelis, a society devoted to aiding less fortunate students at Overton. Following graduation, Grace rebuffs offers of marriage for "what she had firmly believed to be her destined work," managing Harlowe House at Overton. | |
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora O'Malley, and Jessica Bright. The four promote fair play and virtue while winning over troubled girls like Miriam Nesbit and Eleanor Savell, playing basketball, and founding sorority Phi Sigma Tau. The group becomes friends with boys in their acquaintance: David Nesbit, Tom Gray, Hippy Wingate, and Reddy Brooks, forming "The Eight Originals... | |
Grace Harlowe's Problem
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. The College Girls Series sees the friends part ways: Grace, Anne, and Miriam depart for Overton College, while Jessica and Nora attend a conservatory. The Eight Originals gather on holidays, but the seven College books focus on the three at Overton, along with new friends like J. Elfreda Briggs. They form Semper Fidelis, a society devoted to aiding less fortunate students at Overton. Following graduation, Grace rebuffs offers of marriage for "what she had firmly believed to be her destined work," managing Harlowe House at Overton. |
By: William Wells Brown (1814-1884) | |
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Clotel, or, The President's Daughter
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1815-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published in London, England in December 1853. It is often considered the first African-American novel. This novel focuses on the difficult lives of mulattoes in America and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the USA" (Brown). It is about the tragic lives of Currer, Althesea, and Clotel. In the novel, Currer is the former mulatto mistress of President Thomas Jefferson who together have two daughters, Althesea and Clotel... | |
Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter | |
Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States |
By: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826-1887) | |
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The Adventures of A Brownie As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock |
By: Edith E. Wiggin | |
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Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use
It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which the subject can be considered in its appropriate divisions, are of no little value if we would have our children attain to "that finest of the fine arts, a beautiful behavior." (From the author's Introduction) |
By: Kate Douglas Wiggins (1856-1923) | |
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Mother Carey’s Chickens
“When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to be still a family, and did not succeed at all. They clung as closely to one another as ever they could, but there was always a gap in the circle where father had been….. The only thing to do was to remember father's pride and justify it, to recall his care for mother and take his place so far as might be; the only thing for all, as the months went on, was to be what mother called the three Bs -- brave, bright, and busy... |
By: Edward V. Lucas (1868-1938) | |
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Forgotten Tales of Long Ago | |
The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice |
By: H. Irving Hancock (1868-1922) | |
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The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics |
By: Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) | |
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Indian Child Life
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters). This is very different from the slanted way the white man tried to picture them as 'savages' and 'brutes.'Quote: Dear Children:—You will like to know that the man who wrote these true stories is himself one of the people he describes so pleasantly and so lovingly for you. He hopes that when you have finished this book, the Indians will seem to you very real and very friendly... |
By: Mary T. Waggaman (1846-1931) | |
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Captain Ted
When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to help support his family. Without his realization he is thrown into a world of crime and counterfeiting. Will he do the right thing, or will he unwittingly be drawn down the wrong path? And will the mystery of Heron Hall be solved? |
By: John Gay (1685-1732) | |
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Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) |
By: Fanny Fern (1811-1872) | |
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Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends |
By: Frances Trego Montgomery (1858-1925) | |
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Billy Whiskers, the Autobiography of a Goat
This delightful children's story can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike! A mischievous goat, Billy Whiskers, gets into trouble so often that the book could be named, "Billy Trouble Whiskers"! This humorous story will bring you many chuckles and give you a chance to get lost in Billy's adventures with childlike enthusiasm. From riding in a police car, to being a firehouse mascot, getting married, and finding himself a circus goat, Billy's adventures will certainly keep you entertained! (Introduction by Allyson Hester) |
By: Jim Kjelgaard (1910-1959) | |
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The Black Fawn
Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One day, after his chores were done, Bud wandered into the woods nearby and with mouth agape, he noticed a newborn jet black fawn all alone and apparently confused in his new surroundings. Bud resolved that day that this baby fawn was just like himself, an orphan, and would be bound to him in spirit... |
By: Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1823-1896) | |
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The Children's Garland from the Best Poets |
By: Mildred A. Wirt Benson (1905-2002) | |
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Clock Strikes Thirteen
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter who has an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene)... | |
Clue of the Silken Ladder
In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secretive and somewhat sinister old Japanese curio shop owner? How can the "Riverview Star" obtain evidence that a popular troup of spiritualists really are heartless con artists? Last, who is perpetrating the gravity-defying burglaries that have rocked the town ? Meanwhile, the Parker housekeeper, Mrs. Weems, has come into an inheritance and plans to leave Riverview, much to the Parkers' dismay... |
By: Gleeson White (1851-1898) | |
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Children's Books and Their Illustrators |
By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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The Green Door | |
Young Lucretia and Other Stories |
By: Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921) | |
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The Palace in the Garden
The Palace in the Garden is the engaging story of three orphans sent to live in the mysterious country cottage of Rosebuds. The inquisitive children piece together the unexpected mystery of the Palace in the garden & all that goes with it. The story has a few twists. This book put me in mind of the Secret Garden.(Introduction by ilianthe) |
By: Mrs. Molesworth (1839-1921) | |
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The Thirteen Little Black Pigs and Other Stories |
By: William W.Denslow (1856-1915) | |
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Denslow's Mother Goose | |
Denslow's Three Bears | |
Denslow's Humpty Dumpty |
By: Edward P. Cogger | |
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Funny Alphabet Uncle Franks' Series |
By: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850-1943) | |
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Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls | |
Margaret Montfort | |
Rosin the Beau |
By: William A. Alcott (1798-1859) | |
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The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health |
By: Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) | |
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Phoebe, Junior |
By: John C. Hutcheson | |
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Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle |
By: Hezekiah Butterworth (1839-1905) | |
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Little Sky-High Or, The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang |
By: Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893) | |
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The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch | |
Roger Ingleton, Minor |
By: Edric Vredenberg (1860-?) | |
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My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales
This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. |
By: Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935) | |
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The Little Mother Goose |
By: Ontario. Ministry of Education | |
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Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature |
By: Florence Holbrook (1860-1932) | |
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Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades
Despite the title's bland sounding name, this book is a charming collection of 16 plays for children. These little plays—well-known stories done into dialogue—were written for children who like to imagine themselves living with their favorite characters in forest, in palace, or in fairyland. Included are Cinderella, Robin Hood, William Tell, Hansel and Gretel and many more. | |
Book of Nature Myths
This is a book of myths told by the Indians of North America to their children. They could be compared to present day Fairy Tales. |
By: Isaac Watts (1674-1748) | |
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Divine Songs |
By: Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) | |
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Queer Stories for Boys and Girls |
By: Katharine Pyle (1863-1938) | |
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Careless Jane and Other Tales |
By: Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670) | |
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The Orbis Pictus |
By: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) | |
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Sintram and His Companions
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil. 'My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.' Fouque blends the Romantic love for nature and ancient chivalry while telling a powerful story about a young man who yearns for that which he can never attain. |
By: Julia Lestarjette Glover | |
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Briarwood Girls
Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There’s a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda Velwest) |
By: Charles H. Bennett (1829-1867) | |
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The Nine Lives of A Cat A Tale of Wonder |
By: Rebecca Sophia Clarke (1833-1906) | |
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Little Prudy
I am going to tell you something about a little girl who was always saying and doing funny things, and very often getting into trouble. Her name was Prudy Parlin, and she and her sister Susy, three years older, lived in Portland, in the State of Maine, though every summer they went to Willowbrook, to visit their grandmother. (From chapter 1 ) |
By: Sophie May (1833-1906) | |
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Dotty Dimple Out West |
By: Mary Stoyell Stimpson | |
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The Child's Book of American Biography
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people. (from the Forward of the text) |
By: Arnold Kennedy (1853-1938) | |
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Merry Clappum Junction
This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house either! And there are songs, too. The Preface is short, dull and only for the grown-ups. |
By: Frank V. Webster | |
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Bob the Castaway
Frank V Webster was a pseudonym controlled by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of books aimed at children. This pseudonym was used on books for boys from the early 1900s through the 1930s.Bob the Castaway follows the antics of young prankster Bob Henderson, his parents futile attempts to get him to mend his ways, and his subsequent nautical adventures. (Introduction by Nigel Boydell) |
By: Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1868-1932) | |
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The Blue Birds' Winter Nest |
By: Brother Ernest Ryan (1897-1963) | |
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Eddie of Jackson's Gang
Eddie. That is the only name our young, musically talented hero knew for himself. After being left at a Catholic orphanage as a young child, at the age of nine he is unwittingly adopted into a gang of thieves. Will he be able and maintain his innocence and escape their clutches? And will he ever be able to discover his true parentage?Brother Ernest Ryan was a Holy Cross Brother, the founder of and a prolific author for the Dujarie Press, a Catholic publishing house of Juvenile Saint books for children in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He wrote numerous juvenile biographical saint books for children, as well as several children's fictional titles – of which this is one. |
By: Robert Ford (1846-1905) | |
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Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk |
By: Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) | |
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The Magic Pudding
Bunyip Bluegum the koala sets out on his travels taking only a walking stick. At about lunchtime, feeling more than slightly peckish, he meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin who are eating a pudding. The pudding is a magic one which, no matter how much you eat it, always reforms into a whole pudding again. He is called Albert, has thin arms and legs and is a bad-tempered, ill-mannered so-and-so into the bargain. His only pleasure is being eaten. The book is divided into four "slices" instead of chapters. (Introduction by Wikipedia) |
By: Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles (1848-1929) | |
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Fifty-Two Stories For Girls |
By: Jennie Irene Mix | |
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Mighty Animals
A book about dinosaurs written for children. In short, easy to read chapters designed to keep the interest of juvenile readers. |
By: Amy Brooks | |
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Princess Polly At Play |
By: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787-1860) | |
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Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People |