Opera Stories from Wagner/Google Books

Opera Stories from Wagner: A Reader for Primary Grades

By Florence Akin

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1915

106 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

About a fourth - fifth grade reading level.

Little People's Dialogues Designed for Young People of Ten Years/Google Books

Click here.

Wild Animals I have Known by Ernest Seton/Various Sources

The Baldwin Project : "A stirring account of the lives of eight wild animals, including Lobo, the king of Currumpaw; Silverspot, the story of a crow; Raggylug, the story of a cottontail rabbit; Bingo, the story of a dog; the Springfield fox; the pacing mustang; Wully, the story of a yaller dog; and Redruff, the story of the Don valley partridge. Ages 11-14"

Plain Text at Project Gutenberg.

Google Books with drawings.

The Wild Animal Play for Children, meant to go along with the book.

Plays for Classroom Interpretation By Edwin Van Berghen/Google Books

Click here. High school level text.

A Treasury of Plays for Children By Montrose Jonas Moses/Google Books

Click here.

St. Nicholas Book of Plays & Operettas/Google Books

Click here.

Historical Plays of Colonial Days, for Fifth Year Pupils/Google Book Search

I've link to the table of contents in HTML mode so that the hyperlinks are on the table of contents. Click here. There are a few Pilgrim and Indian stories which would be nice for Thanksgiving.

The Basics of Screenwriting

Click on title.

Making Shadow Puppets/Project Gutenberg

Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall by Henry Bursill. A SERIES OF NOVEL AND AMUSING FIGURES FORMED BY THE HAND, published in 1859.

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Children's Play: The Rescue of the Princess Winsome/Project Gutenberg

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"Appealing to children because of its association with their favorite heroine, and to their parents because of its high moral tone and the beauty of its lines, the play has found great favor among children's clubs for their private theatricals, in many cases rivalling the success of the "Little Colonel" and her friends in obtaining funds for charitable purposes. "