Young Readers Books

Child Story Garden

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... compiled for mothers and teachers with the purpose of meeting a demand for children's literature that will not only add to the child's literary culture, ...... a wee tree any longer, but was a straight, strong, beautiful tree. The woodmen walked about with something very bright and shining in their hands. When ...... in, for he had not seen anybody nor heard any of the songs he had ...]
Genres: [young readers | short story collection] Downloads: 269

Cinderella

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper is a classic folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The word cinderella has by analogy come to mean one whose attributes are unrecognised or one who ...]
Genres: [young readers | short story collection | fiction and literature] Downloads: 235

Golden Deeds

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [A short anthology of real-life stories such as William Tell or Handel told in a very brief Ladybird Book style. Great for children but alas so short!]
Genres: [young readers | history] Downloads: 419

Golden Moments

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... FOR YOUNG FOLKS. Fully Illustrated. Boston De Wolfe, Fiske and Company 361 and 365 Washington Street. SOPHIE'S ROSES. Frulein Hoffman always ...... And what the Poles can be, And where the sun goes when he's Beyond the shining sea. F. Wyville Home. THE GOOD AND BAD FAIRIES. Two houses stood ...... on a visit to his uncle's house at Felford. He was therefore much excited when at ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 435

Illustrated Science For Boys And Girls

  [english | 1881]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... yields. And the larger, the more popular, and the more widely read the paper, the better will be the prices which advertisers will pay, and the more ...... with reference to it must also be published. Before the Editor-in-Chief is through, perhaps he marks against one or two articles the word Kill, ...... who is reading it. The man reading it corrects the variations from copy, and ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 308

Lgendes Pour Les Enfants

  [french | 1861]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... de ces vques d'autrefois mais les moines qui, en ce temps-l, ne savaient pas ce que c'est que la critique, acceptaient cela pour de l'histoire. ...... chaume du paysan mais il ne fallait pas que les gens, le voyant si familier, s'oubliassent et lui manquassent de respect. Il se faisait, dans ce cas, ...... le prendre par un bras Dagobert se lve, prompt comme l'clair, menaant comme ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 27

Little Alice Palace

  [english | 1872]  

Anonymous

Summary: [Little Alice S Palace by Anonymous. There had been a long and dreary winter and now the bright spring was coming with its buds and leaves and flowers to gladden the earth that had all the time seemed to be dead.]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 496

Little Cinderella

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper is a classic folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The word cinderella has by analogy come to mean one whose attributes are unrecognised or one who ...]
Genres: [young readers | short story] Downloads: 347

Live To Be Useful

  [english | 1913]  

Anonymous

Summary: [Come Tell Me How You Live is a short book of autobiography and travel literature by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is one of only two books she wrote and had published under both of her married names of Christie and Mallowan (the other being Star Over Bethlehem and other stories) and was first published in the UK in November 1946 by William Collins and Sons and in the same year in the US by ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 377

Mamma Stories About Birds

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Anonymous

Excerpts: [... Eagle is often called the King of Birds, and therefore it is of him that we ought to speak first. Very likely you have often seen eagles in the Zoological ...... chase and completely beat off a large sea eagle. The gulls struck at him several times, and at each stroke he screamed loudly, but never offered to ...... grew so fond of a great, savage house-dog, that though every one ...]
Genres: [nature | young readers] Downloads: 121

Nanny Merry

  [english | 1872]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... laying her trembling hand on the little girl's head, she says, God bless thee, my child.. I think she is expecting her now for, see the cricket ...... at last.. Sister Mary said she thought heaven would be where God was.. So I think, child and I don't think it's the pearls, and gold, and all ...... Burt does.. Oh yes. I felt very sorry, because I knew I ought to love to think about ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 181

Paulina And Her Pets

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Anonymous

Excerpts: [... PETS. [Illustration]. NEW YORK: KIGGINS & KELLOGG, 88 JOHN STREET. [Illustration]. PAULINA, AND HER PETS. [Illustration]. Paulina Evering ...... little boys or girls called to see her, she would ask the servant to go into the garden, and give them bountifully of the luscious fruit. She was noted ...... she owed her own existence and though she had seen scarce twelve summers, she ...]
Genres: [young readers | short story] Downloads: 306

Phebe The Blackberry Girl

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... are you come so soon,. Where are your berries, child. You cannot, sure, have sold them all,. You had a basket pil'd.. No, mother, as I climb'd ...... I had leave to play,. I pick'd with all my might. I sold enough to get my shoes,. About a week ago. And these, if they had not been spilt,. Would ...... it with the poor:. And never let a needy child. Go empty from the door. ...]
Genres: [poetry | young readers] Downloads: 433

The Adventures Of A Squirrel

  [english | 1807]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... adjoining my house at Croydon. The evening was so delightful, I wandered insensibly much farther than I at first intended to go. The prospect was so ...... to stand still, they pricked me with a pin. Luckily the dinner bell rang, or they might have kept me at it half an hour more. I will now give ...... but one time, as she was walking by, I made an effort to get loose, which made ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 142

The Children Book Of Christmas Stories

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [LC copy formerly owned by Bruce Rogers.]
Genres: [short story collection | young readers] Downloads: 376

The Fox And The Geese

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [The Magic Swan Geese or - is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. It is Aarne-Thompson type 451. Other variants of the Aarne-Thompson type include The Six Swans The Twelve Wild Ducks Udea and her Seven Brothers The Wild Swans The Twelve Brothers and The Magic Swan Geese.]
Genres: [poetry | young readers | short story collection] Downloads: 373

The Frog Prince

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... throwing a golden ball up in the air and catching it. And this was her favourite amusement. Now, one day it happened, that this golden ball, when the ...... saw her beautiful plaything and, taking it up, she ran off immediately. Stop. stop. cried the Frog take me with thee. I cannot run as thou canst. ...... Oh, no. answered she it is no giant, but an ugly Frog.. What does the Frog ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 290

The Good Shepherd

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [The Good Shepherd by Anonymous. I. WHY JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD II. JESUS IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM III. THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS IV. JOHN THE BAPTIST V. JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK VI. SOME WORDS AND WORKS OF JESUS VII. A FRIEND FOR THE SORROWFUL VIII. MORE WONDERFUL WORKS AND WORDS IX. THE MAN BORN BLIND AND LAZARUS X. THE PRODIGAL SON AND OTHER STORIES XI. THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM XII. THE CRUCIFIXION AND ...]
Genres: [religion | young readers] Downloads: 273

The History Of Little Goody Two Shoes

  [english | 1766]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... although of late years there have been no new issues. Even in 1802, Charles Lamb in writing to Coleridge, said-. Goody Two Shoes is almost ...... for the young, is calculated to enforce the attention and excite the interest of children of a larger growth.. Now one of this little group, The ...... p. 69, First Series.]. [Footnote D: A Storehouse of Stories, First Series, preface.]. ...]
Genres: [young readers] Downloads: 474

The History Of Tom Thumb

  [english | ]  

Anonymous

Summary: [The History Of Tom Thumb by Anonymous. In the days of King Arthur Merlin the famous enchanter was out on a journey and stopped one day at the cottage of an honest ploughman to ask for refreshment. The ploughman s wife brought him some milk in a wooden bowl and some brown bread on a wooden platter. ]
Genres: [history | short story collection | young readers] Downloads: 236