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Old Peter's Russian Tales - Arthur Ransome
Old Peter's Russian Tales - Arthur Ransome
- Author: Arthur Ransome
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of childrenβs books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome...
On the Yukon Trail - Roy J. Snell
On the Yukon Trail - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
Curlie Carson and Joe Marion are chasing a radio outlaw across the frozen Alaska territory. It should be a simple dogsled trip, especially with hints from the mysterious βwhisperer.β But wolves, blizzards, reindeer rustlers, and more say otherwise....
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver is another in the long list of childrenβs books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, the industrious and clever Paddy Beaver, a newcomer to the Green Forest, has encounters with Sammy Jay, Jerry...
Plow Stories - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Plow Stories - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Single Author Collections
This book tells of the important role of the plow, starting from its humble beginnings and how the plow has changed over time. This is achieved through a series of small stories set during different time periods in history. The introduction of the...
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The brave warrior, Beowulf, comes to the aid of King Hrothgar when he hears that Grendel, a horrible monster, is terrorizing the inhabitants of Hart Hall. Beowulf heroically battles Grendel, the Water Witch, and a fierce dragon. (Summary by Laura...
Little Prudy - Rebecca Sophia Clarke
Little Prudy - Rebecca Sophia Clarke
- Author: Rebecca Sophia Clarke
- Genre: Children's Fiction
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...
A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
Beloved by many generations of children, A Child's Garden of Verses is a beautiful collection of children's poetry. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, but always fun. (Summary by Arctura)...
The Adventures of Mabel - Harry Thurston Peck
The Adventures of Mabel - Harry Thurston Peck
- Author: Harry Thurston Peck
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This is a fantasy story about a little girl, 5-years old, who is the given the ability to converse with animals. - Summary by april6090...
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of childrenβs stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these anecdotes will entertain as well as...
Among the Pond People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Pond People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature / Short works
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's...
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Broken Vase and Other Stories; for Children and Youth, Compiled by a Teacher FITCHBURG: PUBLISHED BY S. & C. SHEPLEY. 1847. WM. J. MERRIAM, PRINTER, FITCHBURG. (Summary from the Frontspiece)...
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes - PΓ‘draic Colum
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes - PΓ‘draic Colum
- Author: PΓ‘draic Colum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. She called herself Maid-alone..."So begins Padriac Colum's...
The Golden Goose Book - L. Leslie Brooke
The Golden Goose Book - L. Leslie Brooke
- Author: L. Leslie Brooke
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations which can be viewed along with the Gutenberg text at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15661. We see a number of stories in which kindness is rewarded and selfishness is punished but Brooke...
The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel - Howard Pyle
The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Children's Fiction
David goes on a journey to the moon-garden where everything is beautiful and where he also meets Phyllis who is not like the other children in the garden. While he is allowed to play in this beautiful place for awhile, he at last finds out that he...
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1 - Unknown
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1 - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a culture through its folklore. It...
Little Women (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to love the four sisters as they grow and mature into young women. This book has characters any girl can relate to...
A Little Book of Christmas - John Kendrick Bangs
A Little Book of Christmas - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)...
Hoofbeats on the Turnpike - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Hoofbeats on the Turnpike - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with 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...
Mother Goose in Prose - L. Frank Baum
Mother Goose in Prose - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves. There are others which are mere suggestions, leaving...
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
βTHE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE; Being the Second and Last Part OF HIS LIFE, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe.β After the death of his wife, Robinson Crusoe is overcome by the old...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 6) - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 6) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a...
Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family's coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household. Written by Ancilla...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 006 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 006 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Librivoxβs Childrenβs Short Works Collection 006: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook - Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family
The Bobbseys are home from their adventure on the houseboat and now they're off to visit their cousins at Meadow Brook Farm. But they haven't even arrived before they encounter a runaway boy, a runaway dog, and a runaway ram! Meadow Brook proves...
A Candle For Our Lady - Regina Victoria Hunt
A Candle For Our Lady - Regina Victoria Hunt
- Author: Regina Victoria Hunt
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religion
Dark times for British Catholics hung over England in the days of King Henry VIII. Henry, influenced by the hated Thomas Cromwell, fell into opposition with them, suppressing them, and closing religious houses. In that period a famous shrine,...
Our Little Canadian Cousin - Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
Our Little Canadian Cousin - Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
- Author: Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General
In " Our Little Canadian Cousin," the author's intention is to tell, in a general way and in one defined local setting, the story of Canadian home life in the late 19th century. To Canadians, home life means not merely sitting at a huge fire-place,...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / School
When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would hope for. Her cheerful spirit touches the lives of many, but will Rebecca be able to endure Aunt Miranda's...
Nutcracker and Mouse King - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Nutcracker and Mouse King - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The original story of the Nutcracker, weird and wonderful by one of the masters of horror and weirdness. Summary by Sandra Cullum....
Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities - Andrew Lang
Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Children's Fiction
These are short stories about the life of Ulysses, the stealing of Helen, Paris, battles, Trojan horses, and more! - Summary by Maggie Travers...
Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the...
More William - Richmal Crompton
More William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with William waking up on Christmas...
Five Little Peppers Grown Up - Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers Grown Up - Margaret Sidney
- Author: Margaret Sidney
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Five Little Peppers Grown Up continues the story of Ben, Polly, Joel, David, and Phronsie Pepper. Together with the Kings, the Whitneys, and other friends old and new, the Peppers learn and teach about life and love as they grow into adulthood....
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
- Author: Edric Vredenberg
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
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. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and more. This 15th issue of the serial, published on February 10, 1880, features...
Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
- Author: Heinrich Hoffmann
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous childrenβs poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for...
The Dutch Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
The Dutch Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This book is the first of a series of stories for supplementary reading the purpose of which is to give children a correct idea of life in different countries, both in the spirit and atmosphere of the story, and in the actual descriptions. These...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 16, Feb. 17, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 16, Feb. 17, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children includes delightful serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, poetry, puzzles and fun. This 16th issue of the serial, published on February 17, 1880, features...
The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge - Jean M. Thompson
The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge - Jean M. Thompson
- Author: Jean M. Thompson
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Twenty-four delightful tales for children. Meet Timothy Mouse, Little Red Doe, Dame Woodchuck, King Moose and Unk-Wunk the Porcupine with their friends. Adventure and humor are skillfully wrapped around these lovable characters. - Summary by Larry...
Mrs. Peter Rabbit (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
Mrs. Peter Rabbit (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This charming story chronicles the life of Peter rabbit and the many other woodland creatures that live in and around the brier batch. Peter finds himself not wanting to eat and finding everyday activities of life a bore. As a result of this, he...
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill - Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill - Margaret Vandercook
- Author: Margaret Vandercook
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
Betty Ashton is so very bored! She is in her home, wanting something interesting to do, when she meets her new companion, Esther Clark. Esther has just arrived at the request of Mrs Ashton, to live with Betty and to help her in whatever way she...
