Mother Stories from the Old Testament
This Gutenberg free book is full of illustrations and tells the story of the Old Testament in a kid friendly manner. I really love it.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17162/17162-h/17162-h.htm
Mother Stories from the New Testament
This Gutenberg free Book is a continuation of the Old Testament book. Again I'm very much looking forward to sharing this with my daughter.
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The Seven Little Sisters Who Lived on a Round Ball That Floated in the Air ***
Free Gutenberg book. Helps in the area of Geography.
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Stories of Great Americans by Little Americans
Free Gutenberg book. No pictures. Helps in the area of biography studies.
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Stories of American Life and Adventure ****
Free Gutenberg book. Nicely Illustrated.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15597/15597-h/15597-h.htm
Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
This is a Gutenberg Free Book. It is sort of fanciful, striving to incorporate an aspect of science into its contents. No pictures.
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Beatrix Potter ****
Gutenberg Free Book. No pictures.The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
The Pie and the Patty-Pan
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
The Story of Miss Moppet
The Tale of Tom Kitten
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
The Roly Poly Pudding
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
The Tale of Mr. Tod
The Tale of Pigling Bland
Ginger and Pickles
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A Child's Garden of Verses ****
Gutenberg Free Book. No pictures. This is a great book for memorizing. I would start out reading a re-reading one poem each day until it is committed to memory. Then I would move on to the next.
(A book review From Goodreads:
Absolutely wonderful!
A Child's Garden of Verses is a read that reminds me of all the little experiences as a child!
Sometimes we see the moon, we see the weathered patterns, and we see the happy thoughts resonate into actions, but do we ever know where they spring from? They don't lodge themselves from the grabs of young imagination, but this is a phase that truly continues to grow.
You grow old towards the genuine reality, and repose of life, but are you enjoying it?
Do not be afraid of living for once in your heavenly thoughts, because the Mexicans have a lifelong tradition of living in it.
The Buddhists live in their Nirvanas, and the Hindus worship their rich liberations or Shaktis! Why can't you live in the freedom of yourself?
Common!
I learnt so many things from this book.
words like weir (a low dam built across a river to raise the level of water upstream to regulate its flow) and life defined in Poetry, are parts of humanity's insouciant varieties. Let things matter to you, and know what they are about. HAVE AN ASSESSMENT. : )
This made me laugh:
TIME TO RISE
A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon my window sill,
Cocked his shining eyes and said:
"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!" : ) (during these times of holidaying, I do feel a pang of guilt for rising a little bit late)
A GOOD BOY/A GOOD GIRL : )
I woke before the morning,
I was happy all day.
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.
And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood,
And I am very happy, for I know that I have been good.
My bed is waiting cool and fresh,
With linen smooth and fair,
And I must be off to sleepsin-bay,
And not forget my prayer.
I know that, till to-morrow I shall see the sun arise,
No ugly dream shall fight my mind, no ugly sight for my eyes.
But slumber hold me tightly till I waken in the dawn,
And hear the thrushes singing in the lilacs round the lawn.
The book was beautiful, and small.
I enjoyed it. I am progressing beautifully today, eh? : )
Love,
Taymara. : )
A Child's Garden of Verses is a read that reminds me of all the little experiences as a child!
Sometimes we see the moon, we see the weathered patterns, and we see the happy thoughts resonate into actions, but do we ever know where they spring from? They don't lodge themselves from the grabs of young imagination, but this is a phase that truly continues to grow.
You grow old towards the genuine reality, and repose of life, but are you enjoying it?
Do not be afraid of living for once in your heavenly thoughts, because the Mexicans have a lifelong tradition of living in it.
The Buddhists live in their Nirvanas, and the Hindus worship their rich liberations or Shaktis! Why can't you live in the freedom of yourself?
Common!
I learnt so many things from this book.
words like weir (a low dam built across a river to raise the level of water upstream to regulate its flow) and life defined in Poetry, are parts of humanity's insouciant varieties. Let things matter to you, and know what they are about. HAVE AN ASSESSMENT. : )
This made me laugh:
TIME TO RISE
A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon my window sill,
Cocked his shining eyes and said:
"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!" : ) (during these times of holidaying, I do feel a pang of guilt for rising a little bit late)
A GOOD BOY/A GOOD GIRL : )
I woke before the morning,
I was happy all day.
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.
And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood,
And I am very happy, for I know that I have been good.
My bed is waiting cool and fresh,
With linen smooth and fair,
And I must be off to sleepsin-bay,
And not forget my prayer.
I know that, till to-morrow I shall see the sun arise,
No ugly dream shall fight my mind, no ugly sight for my eyes.
But slumber hold me tightly till I waken in the dawn,
And hear the thrushes singing in the lilacs round the lawn.
The book was beautiful, and small.
I enjoyed it. I am progressing beautifully today, eh? : )
Love,
Taymara. : )
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Tale of Fatty Coon ***
Fatty Coon was so fat and round that he looked like a ball of fur, with a plumelike tail for a handle. But if you looked at him closely you would have seen a pair of very bright eyes watching you.
Fatty loved to eat. Yes--he loved eating better than anything else in the world. That was what made him so fat. And that, too, was what led him into many adventures. Gutenberg Free Book. No pictures.
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Tale of Timmy Turtle
Free Book. No pictures.
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Tale of Solomon Owl
Free Book. No Pictures.Classic children's book, from the Tuck-me-in Tales series. Teaches basic science of the animal and insect world through the lives of the characters and explores various animal characteristics, environments and predators. Rich in vocabulary and attention to detail.
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Tale of Tommy Fox
Free Book. No Pictures. For a long time Tommy waited there. He kept very still. And he stayed hidden behind the tree, with only one eye peeping round the tree- trunk, so that he could watch for Mr. Woodchuck. He was very patient-- was Tommy. You have to be patient, you know, when you are hunting. He crouched behind the tree for at least an hour, and never once took his eye off that hole. And at last he saw Mr. Woodchuck's nose come popping out.
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Tale of Sandy Chipmunk
Free Book. No Pictures.In the first place, no doubt you will want to learn why he was known as Sandy. Many others, before you, have wondered how Sandy Chipmunk came by his name. Whenever any one asked Sandy himself why he was so called, he always said that he was in too great a hurry to stop to explain. And it is a fact that of all the four-footed folk in Pleasant Valley--and on Blue Mountain as well--he was one of the busiest. He was a great worker. And when he played-- as he sometimes did--he played just as hard as he worked. In spite of his being so busy, there may have been another reason why he never would tell any one why he was named Sandy. Jimmy Rabbit was the first to suggest that perhaps Sandy Chipmunk didn't know.
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Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
Free Book. No pictures.
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Tale of Mr. Crow
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Tale of Major Monkey
Free Book. Small picures.
About Arthur Scott Bailey: (1877-1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey attended St. Albans Academy and graduated in 1896, in a class of only eleven other students. He then went on to the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, where he became involved in a fraternal organization, Sigma Phi. However, he left UVM in 1901 and transferred to Harvard, where he earned his bachelor's degree. In 1904 he travelled to New York City and became an editor for various publishers. Which publishers these were is unknown, with the exception of the Macaulay Company, where he was working in early 1915. Among his most famous works are: Sleepy-Time Tales: The Tale of Frisky Squirrel (1915), Sleepy-Time Tales: The Tale of Peter Mink (1916), Tuck-me-in Tales: The Tale of Jasper Jay (1917), Tuck-me-in Tales: The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (1918), Slumber-Town Tales: The Tale of Henrietta Hen (1921) and Slumber-Town Tales: The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot (1921).
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The Velveteen RabbitNursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.
Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys--and people--become real through the wisdom and experience of love.
Book Review by Rachel rate it 5 out of 5 stars
Beautiful and deeply touching. At Meredith's wedding last year, her brother and sister read a passage from this book, including the below - an inspired choice.
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
Book Review by Audrey rated it 5 of 5 stars
Such a beautiful beautiful story. During my second year of teaching, I started taking 30 minutes or so on Fridays to read a children's story to my juniors, and then we'd discuss it in the context of a shared letters project that was ongoing through the year. It never failed that I would cry every time I read this story -- the whole concept of being real as it is explained in the book just moves me so much. When you are shabby and well-worn and your whiskers are rubbed off and your fur is patchy, that means you are loved and that is what real is -- what an amazing truth. We had wonderful talks about appearance and personality and being who you are with this book -- it's applicable to every age.
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