Ancient And Modern Ships
It is not difficult to imagine how mankind first conceived the idea of making use of floating structures to enable him to traverse stretches of water. The trunk of a tree floating down a river may have...
View ArticleThe Children’s Longfellow
For children who don’t quite understand epic poetry yet, here is a book that narrates eleven of Longfellow’s poems into a story form. This would work well during a poet-study. It could be used...
View ArticleFlowers Shown To The Children
Dear Children,—If you were old enough to go to the bookseller and ask for a book that would tell you about the flowers you see growing in the woods and fields in spring and summer-time, you would find...
View ArticleFolk Tales From The Russian
In sending forth the stories in the present volume, all of which are here set down in print for the first time, it is my hope that they may enable American children to share with the children of...
View ArticleDivine and Moral Songs for Children
The book title says songs, but these are more like divine and moral poems (verses?) for children. Written by Isaac Watts, the titles of the songs include: Be to others kind and true Hosanna to the...
View ArticleThe Quadrupeds of North America
Amazing illustrations and descriptions of quadrapeds (four-legged animals) that are common to North America by none other than J. W. Audubon himself! Each species has a detailed illustration, synopsis...
View ArticleDaddy Takes Us To The Garden
This book would be fun to read as part of a home economics or gardening unit. This is a fun story of two children who help their father in the garden, but it also has a lot of detail on the actual...
View ArticleThe Dance: Historic Illustrations Of Dancing
Dancing, music and poetry were inseparable. Dancing is the poetry of motion, and its connection with music, as the poetry of sound, occurs at all times. In our own day musical themes are marked by...
View ArticleAlgonquin Indian Tales
For thirty years or more we have been gathering up these myths and legends. Sometimes a brief sentence or two of one would be heard in some wigwam—just enough to excite curiosity—then years would...
View ArticleBird World; A Bird Book For Children
I’ve had this nature reader in my bookmarked list for quite some time. In fact, it was near the top. For some reason or another I hadn’t shared it with you. But when I went looking for resources this...
View ArticleSnake & Reptile Nature Ebooks
Last week someone on the Homeschool Commons Facebook page asked if I had seen any free ebooks about snakes. While she was looking for material to read to her younger son, I found mostly adult books....
View ArticleThe Boy Travellers
A Civil War soldier turned journalist, turned world traveller, Thomas Knox was a man that knew adventure. Are you familiar with The King and I? Well – Knox actually knew the king of Siam intimately...
View ArticleThe Children Of Odin
Here are the matchless tales of All-Father Odin, who crosses the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard and sacrifices his right eye to drink from the Well of Wisdom; of Thor, whose mighty hammer...
View ArticleThe Kewpie Primer
A reader fun for all ages! Originally dolls, Kewpies were found in all kinds of paraphernalia during the early 1900′s. This book is full of fun illustrations you could use for coloring or clipart. The...
View ArticleDays of the Colonists
Living stories about John Smith, the founding of Plymouth, and all the way to the signing of the Declaration of Independence! Published in 1922, this living history book has several color and black...
View ArticleToy-Making At Home
Since we couldn’t take a lot of our toys with us on our move, my kids have been discovering how to make all kinds of toys out of household items. One of their favorite pastimes is making things from...
View ArticleThe English Lakes
A while back ago I posted a series of books called Beautiful England. They are descriptive little tomes with paintings of the structures and lands of England. I was pleased to find that Project...
View ArticleBritish Castles
A very beautifully illustrated treatise on the history of castle-building in England. The writing in this book is a little heady – so it would probably only appeal to older students. But the...
View ArticleCamping on the St. Lawrence
In this story I have endeavored to take my young readers to one of our noblest rivers, and not only to make them share in the stirring experiences which are to be had on its waters, but also to make...
View ArticleTintoretto: Masterpieces in Colour
The general feeling about Jacopo Robusti is perhaps summed up by Giorgio Vasari in his “Lives.” “He is a great lover of the arts,” says our gossip; “he delights in playing on various musical...
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