The Butterfly Vivarium; or, Insect Home/Google books

The butterfly vivarium; or, insect home: or, insect home
By Henry Noel Humphreys
Published 1858
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Sep 8, 2006Main page.

Begin reading here.

Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual and Readers/Google Books

Teacher's guide for Aldine Readers Primer through Book Two:

Begin reading here.

Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual for Teachers Using The Aldine Readers

By Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Catherine Turner Bryce

Edition: revised

Published by Newson & company, 1918

243 pages

Main page

Aldine Readers:

The Aldine Readers Primer(Internet Archives)

The Aldine Readers: Book One

The Aldine Readers: Book Two

Rollo's Experiments/Google Books

Rollo's Experiments

By Jacob Abbott, William Jay Baker, Sheldon & Company (New York, N.Y.)

Illustrated by Frederick M. Coffin

Contributor William Jay Baker, John Andrew, Sheldon & Company, Phillips, Sampson & Company

Published by Sheldon, 1862

180 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

About third - fourth grade level.

The New Century Third Reader/Google Books

The New Century Third Reader
By Henry S. Tibbits
Edition: revised
Published by Rand, McNally, 1899
238 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Stories of Patriotism: A Patriotic Reader for the Intermediate Grades

Stories of patriotism: a patriotic reader for the intermediate grades

By Norma Helen Deming, Katharine Isabel Bemis

Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918

190 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

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.

Art Studies for Schools/Goggle Books

Art Studies for Schools: Or, Hints on the Use of Reproductions of High Art in the Schoolroom
By Rydingsvärd, Anna Maria von Rydingsvärd
Published by A. Flanagan company, 1903
184 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Teacher's helps, stories about art. Elementary school level.

Being a Boy/Google Books

Being a boy

By Charles Dudley Warner

Illustrated by James Wells Champney

Edition: 26

Published by Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1896

186 pages

Popular literature for boys at the turn of the century. Excerpts of this book were published in fifth grade readers. This book is about a boy growing up on a farm in Massachusetts.

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Blend Phonics Reading Program

Reading Made Easy with Blend Phonics for First Grade (1980) by Hazel Loring( PDF).

This includes blend phonics supplements(scroll down at link).

Fifth Reader/Google Books

Fifth reader ...

By Charles Maurice Stebbins

Published by American Book company, 1913

480 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

A Practical System of Modern Geography/Google Books

Another interesting geography book, pre-Civil War. It's actually general enough to still be of use, and interesting for historical period study. The language suggests middle elementary school, easy to read and understand. Lovely illustrations throughout which could be used for projects and time lines. Comprehension questions included.


A practical system of modern geography, or A view of the present state of the world ...: Revised and illustrated by a new enlarged atlas
By Jesse Olney
Edition: 60
Published by Pratt, Woodford & co., 1849

Main page

Begin reading here.

An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World/Google Books

Interesting for a period study.

An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Map of the World, on Mercator's Projection: Containing an Index to the Various Countries, Cities, Towns, Islands, &c., Represented on the Map

By Samuel Augustus Mitchell

Published by S.A. Mitchell, 1846

Begin reading here.
Main page.

Downloadable map can be found here .

Free Math Courses Online

Not free ebooks, but math can be a tricky subject to teach(and expensive), so I thought I'd link this here. The Education Portal has a nice list of colleges, universities and other learning centers offering free math courses online and software. Click here.

Pollard's Synthetic Second Reader

Mislabeled by Google Books as First reader.

Begin reading here.

Main page

Pollard's synthetic first reader

By Rebecca Smith Pollard

Published by Western Pub. House, 1895

159 pages

Pollard's Synthetic First Reader

Pollard's synthetic first reader

By Rebecca Smith Pollard

Published by Western Pub. House, 1895

159 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

First Book for Little Folks(phonics)/Google Books

First book for little folks
By Rebecca Smith Pollard
Published by American Book Co., 1898
Main page.
Begin reading here

A Primer of Calculus/Internet Archives

Click here.

The Step-by-Step Primer/Internet Archives

Click here.

Geography: or, A Description of the World/Google Books

Geography: or, A description of the world

By Daniel Adams

Edition: 5

Published by Lincoln & Edmands, 1820

335 pages

Dated, but still useful.

Main page.

Begin reading here.

The Historical Geography of the Holy Land/Google Books

Begin reading here.

The historical geography of the Holy land: especially in relation to the history of Israel and of the early church
By George Adam Smith
Edition: 9
Published by A. C. Armstrong and son, 1897
713 pages

Main page.

Rollo's Vacation/Google Book

Rollo's vacation

By Jacob Abbott

Contributor Samuel Colman

Published by Samuel Colman, 1855

Original from the University of California

Digitized Nov 6, 2008

191 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Fourth or fifth grade reader.

Review of Rollo series books.

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

An early elementary nature/geography reader.

The stories Mother Nature told her children
By Jane Andrews
Published by Ginn & Company, 1888
161 pages

Begin reading here.

Main page.

Persia/Google Books

An interesting booklet on Persia, modern day Iran.

Persia
By Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education
Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1846
200 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

The Seven Champions of Christendom /Google Books

The seven champions of Christendom: a new version from the most ancient chronicles and records, all other authentic and reliable sources of information especially adapted for the enlightenment, edification, and instruction of the rising generation
By William Henry Giles Kingston, Richard Johnson, Sampson Low, Son & Co, Sampson Low, Son, and Co
Illustrated by John Franklin, T. L.
Contributor Sampson Low, Son & Co, Sampson Low, Son, and Co, D. Appleton and Company, Chiswick Press, Whittingham and Wilkins
Published by Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1861
235 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Stories from English History/Google Books

Stories from English History: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

By Albert Franklin Blaisdell

Published by Ginn & Company, 1897

191 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

English Fairy Tales Retold/Google Books

English Fairy Tales: Retold
By Flora Annie Webster Steel, Arthur Rackham
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Contributor Arthur Rackham
Edition: large print
Published by Macmillan, 1918
363 pages

Main page

Begin reading here

Children's Saint George's Day Ebook Links

Click on title.

The Discovery of the Old Northwest/Google Books

The discovery of the old Northwest: and its settlement by the French

By James Baldwin

Published by American Book Company, 1901

272 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Late elementary, early middle school.

Rollo at School/Google books

The Rollo Series: Rollo at school
By Jacob Abbott
Published by Sheldon & company, 1868
Item notes: v. 5
Main page

Begin reading here.

Appears to be a fourth grade reader.

Hannibal/Google Books

Hannibal

By Jacob Abbott

Published by Harper, 1901

295 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

The Alhambra /Google Books

The Alhambra

By Washington Irving, Edward Kilburn Robinson, Norman Irving Black

Published by Ginn and company, 1915

370 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

The Boys of '76/Google Books

Historical revolutionary war fiction for middle school and up.

The boys of '76: A history of the battles of the revolution

By Charles Carleton Coffin

Published by Harper & brothers, 1899

Item notes: v. 2

398 pages

Begin reading here
Main page

Stories of Famous Pictures/Google books

Early elementary, educational art reader.

Stories of Famous Pictures
By Ella Marie Powers
Published by Educational publishing company, 1904

Main page.

Begin reading here.

The Cave Twins/Google Books

The Cave Twins
By Lucy Fitch Perkins
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1916
162 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Legends of Charlemagne/Google Books

Legends of Charlemagne; Or Romance of the Middle Ages
By Thomas Bulfinch
Published by J.E. Tilton and Co., 1866
271 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Rollo at Play/Google Books

Rollo at Play
By Jacob Abbott, Charles Copeland, Oliver Wendell Holmes Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1897
191 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Appears to be third grade(advanced) - fourth grade level.

A Child's Guide to Pictures (1908)/Internet Archives

Click here.

The "Little folks" painting book : a series of outline engravings for water-colour painting/Internet Archives

Click here

Unfortunately these Kate Greenway pictures have already been water colored, but they may be still paintable if printed out black and white. There are stories to go along with each engraving.

Kaplan Anatomy Coloring Book/Internet Archives

Click here.

Hand sewing lessons; a graded course for schools and for the home(1905)/Internet Archives

Click here to view and downlaod.
More here.


HT to Denese.

Studies of Great Composers/Google Books

Studies of Great Composers
By Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Published by G. Routledge and sons, limited, 1904
376 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

High school reading level.

Shop Mathematics/Google Books

Shop Mathematics
By John Michael Christman
Published by Macmillan, 1922
321 pages

Main page
Begin reading here.

Child Garden Magazine for April

April, 1894: stories, songs, and play.

Begin reading here.

The Story of a Plush Bear/Google Books

The story of a plush bear

By Laura Lee Hope

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1921

120 pages

Main page.
Begin Reading here.

The Child's Pictorial Preceptor /Google Books

Quite old, but timeless. Pages would make nice mottoes for the classroom, or for framing.

The Child's pictorial preceptor

By E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)

Contributor E.B. & E.C. Kellogg (Firm)

Published by Published by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg Hartford, Conn. & Berea, Ohio., 1842

46 pages

Main page.
Begin reading here.

Easter Lily Stories and More

Second grade reader: Tom's Easter Lily

Second grade, American Reader: The Easter Lily

Second Grade, Sprague Classic Reader: The Easter Lily.

How to fold an Easter lily.

A Paper Easter, girl's crafts: Easter lily, and others here.


Also see: Children's Lent, Holy Week and Easter Printables

School and Home Gardens/Google Books

Begin reading here.
Main page.
School and home gardens
By William Herman Dietrich Meier
Published by Ginn and company, 1913
319 pages

Rollo Learning to Work

Rollo at Work

By Jacob Abbott, Charles Copeland

Published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1897

191 pages

Main page.
Begin reading here.

About a fourth grade reading level.

The Art Crafts for Beginners/ Google Books

This book presents historical background information and directions. Written for adults, but wonderful for homeschool projects led by an adult.

The art crafts for beginners

By Frank Goodwin Sanford, Arthur F. Phillips

Published by Century, 1906

270 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Little Arthur at the Zoo(Birds)/ Google Books

Little Arthur at the Zoo, and the birds he saw there

By Mary Seymour

Published by T. Nelson and Sons, 1887

Main page.

Click here to read.

Stories of the Saints for Children

Stories of the saints for children, by M.F.S.

By Mary Seymour

Published 1875

Main page

Begin reading here.

Rollo Learning to Read/Google Books

Rollo learning to read

By Jacob Abbott

Published by Phillips, Sampson, 1884

180 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Margaret of Anjou/Google Books

Margaret of Anjou

By Jacob Abbott

Published by Harper & brothers, 1901

316 pages

Click here.

Begin reading here.

Rollo Learning to Talk/Google Books

Click here.

Yankee ships and Yankee sailors : tales of 1812/Internet Archives

Click here.

Old French fairy tales (c1920)/Internet Archives

Click here.

Count up the sunny days : a story for girls/Internet Archives

Appears to be appropriate for ages 9-12. The writing style is not as meandering as many Victorian books. This book looks like a pleasant read for young people. I only skimmed through the first five pages, so I could not give a synopsis of the story.

Click here.

Devotional Poetry for the Children/Internet Archives

This book was published in 1870 by the Society of Friends(Quakers).

Click here.

The Children's Six Minutes/Project Gutenberg

THE CHILDREN'S SIX MINUTES BY BRUCE S. WRIGHT
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
THE CHILDREN'S SIX MINUTES. II
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Click here.

Mini-sermons for children with Scripture(Methodist Church)

Favorite Songs and Hymns for School and Home/Google Books

Favorite Songs and Hymns for School and Home: Containing Four Hundred and Fifty of the World's Best Songs and Hymns, Including National Songs and Many Songs of Days : Also, the Elements of Music and Twenty-five Responsive Scriptural Readings

By John Piersol McCaskey

Published by American Book Company, 1899

400 pages

Main page.

Begin reading here.

Songs for Catholic Schools and Aids to Memory for the Catechism/Google Books

Begin reading here.

Main page.

A History of Spain for Young Persons/Google Books

A History of Spain for Young Persons
By Bennett George Johns
Contributor Joseph Masters, W. & E. Pickering
Published by Joseph Masters, 1849
212 pages
Main page.
Read here.

Little Jan the Dutch Boy/Google Books

Story of Little Jan, the Dutch Boy

By Helen L. Campbell, Helen Mary Campbell

Published by Educational Publishing Co., 1905

100 pages
Main page
Begin reading here.

Third Grade Unit Study to be used with the Little Cousins/Twins Series and/or Peeps from Many Lands Series

This is a third grade unit study lesson/teacher outline from Socializing the Child(see section VI)
for the countries of Holland, Germany, Japan, and France. Also includes children's book recommendations for further reading at the end of each section.

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Socializing the Child: A Guide to the Teaching of History in the Primary Grades
By Sarah Ann Dynes
Published by Silver, Burdett and company, 1916
302 pages

To be used with any of these reading resources: Peeps from Many Lands, The Twins Series, and the Little Cousins Series:

Our Little Dutch Cousin
Our Little French Cousin
The Japanese Twins
Our Little German Cousin(mislabeled title by Project Gutenberg as simply, "Bertha", just ignore this and click through.)

Also see other graded resources for geography and social studies at An Old Fashioned Education.

The Little Follower of Jesus (1889) based on Kempis's Imitation of Christ /Internet Archives

Click on title.

Brooks's Readers Second Grade/Google Books

Begin reading here.
Main page.

Brooks's readers

By Stratton Duluth Brooks

Published by American Book Co., 1907

248 pages

Brooks's Readers Fourth Grade/Google Books

Main page.
Begin reading here.
Brooks's Readers
By Stratton Duluth Brooks
Published by American Book Co., 1906

"Say Fellows-": Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues/Project Gutenberg

Adapted from the Author's weekly Sunday School
Lesson Treatments in The Sunday School Times,
by permission of the Editors.
Fleming H. Revell Company
1921

Click here.

Saint Patrick and Irish Children's Stories, Activities and Music

To print pages, right click on the image of the page, and then print picture or save picture. Make sure the page is on HMTL(bottom right on sidebar). I should have defaulted all these links to come up as HMTL. Get to main download page by clicking through, "Write review", then "About book". Sorry, they have changed things since I wrote this post last year. I've bumped this up from 3/11/08.

Stories of Saints, 1880, about a fourth grade reading level and up.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, 1866, detailed history for older children.

The Every-day Book and Table Book , Saint Patrick biography for older students

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the ... - Page 171 , middle elementary grade reading level.

Saint Patrick from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman, middle elementary reading level and up.

The Seven Champions of Christendom: A New Version from the Most Ancient , Saint Patrick, middle elementary reading level and up.

Children's Stories and how to Tell Them, BARNEY NOONAN'S FAIRY HAYMAKERS (Re-told from the Irish) .

World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: One Hundred and Eighty-seven ... - Page 86 , Saint Patrick and the Snakes.

European Hero Stories By Eva March Tappan, Saint Patrick, middle elementary reading level

Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

The Mary Dawson game book: a manual of original games and guessing contests, didactic games, good for unit studies.

Child-garden: Story, Song, Play, The Four-Leaved Clover, Kindergarten

The World and Its People, Ireland where the Shamrock Grows, fifth grade

The American Normal Readers: Fourth Grade, An Irish legend.

Golden Rod Fairy Book, THE FIELD OF BOLIAUNS

The Red Fairy Book, THE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.

Irish Fairy Tales

Celtic Fairy Tales

Poems by Grades: Containing Poems Selected for Each Grade of the School , seventh grade, Song of the Clover(not specifically Irish)

An Elementary Class-book of General Geography, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The Old-fashioned Fairy Book, THE LEPERHAUN. A Legend of the Emerald Isle.

The Guyot Geographical Reader and Primer: A Series of Journeys Round the World , Great Britain and Ireland

Reading with Expression: Fifth grade, THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER

The American School Readers, Fourth Grade, The Magic Well

The World's Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art, Celts, high school level

Child-garden: Story, Song, Play: The Four-Leaved Clover, elementary school.

Celtic music(MIDIs)

Free Celtic Monastery Model

The King Nobody Wanted/Project Gutenberg

"In a very real and interesting way, The King Nobody Wanted tells the story of Jesus. Where the actual words of the Bible are used, they are from the King James Version. But the greater part of the story is told in the words of every day.

Since you will certainly want to look up these stories in your own Bible, the references are given on pages 191 and 192. You will discover that often more than one Gospel tells the same story about Jesus, but in a slightly different way. In The King Nobody Wanted, the stories from the Gospels have been put together so that there is just one story for you to read and understand and enjoy."

Begin reading here. Main download page.

Champion Spelling Book/Google Books

Champion Spelling Book: For Public and Private Schools

By Warren Edwin Hicks

Published by American book company, 1909

238 pages

I believe this is for grades one - six, a section a grade.

Main page
Begin reading here.

Mother Carey's Chickens/Google Books

Begin Reading here.
Main page.

Mother Carey's Chickens
By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911
355 pages

Mother Carey's Chickens
Amazon review: . Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In this story the reader follows a strong-willed widow, Nancy Carey, as she struggles for the future of her beautiful daughters Nancy and Kitty and her beloved son Peter. Good humor and folksy grit help Mother Carey keep poverty and the wrong fellows for her daughters at bay.

An old fashioned story with old fashioned values - uplifting and edifying fiction.

Days of the Discoverers /Google Books

Days of the Discoverers

By Louise Lamprey

Published by Frederick A. Stokes company, 1921

300 pages

Living history, Vikings - 17th century. Begin reading here.

Main page

The Boy of Mount Rhigi/Google Books

The Boy of Mount Rhigi
By Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Published by Crosby and Nichols, 1862
252 pages

Main page
Begin reading here.

Review:

"Senior High to Adult: Besides fishing in the beautiful wooded hills of Mount Rhigi, Massachusetts, Harry Davis and Clapham Dunn have little in common as far as their upbringing. Harry can hardly relate to the brutal existence that Clapham endures every day—which has molded his character and produced tormenting frustration and fear in his heart. Emotionally and spiritually bankrupt, Clapham, like a magnet, is drawn to the love and acceptance of the Davises. But one sad day he is seized and threatened to do that which is unthinkable. Long, miserable, dark days follow. But though sorrow endures for the night, the healing balm of truth brings joy in the morning.

About the author...

Both the public and her contemporaries regarded Catharine Maria Sedgwick highly. Catharine was actually one of the first American female authors to gain fame. She gained her recognition through writing stories with Christian morals such as were popular during her day."

In the Days of the Guild/Google Books

In the Days of the Guild

By Louise Lamprey

Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1918

291 pages

Main page. Begin reading here.

Elementary Composition/Google Books

Elementary Composition(advanced middle school and up)
By Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George Rice Carpenter
Published by The Macmillan company, 1906
274 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Stories of the Pilgrims/Google Books

Main page
Begin reading here.

Stories of the Pilgrims
By Margaret Blanche Pumphrey, Lucy Fitch Perkins
Published by Rand, McNally & Company, 1912
241 pages

This book has been republished by Christian Liberty Press, and is a part of their fourth grade curriculum. Yesterday's Classics also has this in reprint. See main page for all book links.

(Thanksgiving)

A Spring Flora for High Schools/Goggle Books

A Spring Flora for High Schools
By Henry Chandler Cowles, John Gaylord Coulter
Published by American book company, 1915
144 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now/Google Books

Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now

By Jane Andrews

Published by Ginn & company, 1913

249 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

Appropriate for about ages 10 -12.

The Madonna and of the Goldfinch/Internet Archive

Published in 1917 by Amy Steedman. "Stories of Italy and of little Italian boy and girls, into which has been woven much interesting information concerning Italian customs and beliefs. Beautifully illustrated." ~ 1918 Publishers Weekly

Click here.

Knights of Art; Stories of the Italian Painters/ Internet Archive

Published in 1907 by Amy Steedman, art history with pictures for elementary aged children.

Click here.

The Child's World Fourth Grade Reader/ Google Books

The Child's World Fourth Reader

By Sarah Withers, Hetty Sibyl Browne, William Knox Tate

Published by B.F. Johnson, 1917

Begin reading here.
Main page

The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature: American and British/Google Books

All this and more:

THE CASTLE V CHIVALRY	344
Chivalry , joust , minstrels
THE VILLAGE FARM	347
middle ages , farmed in common , scat
THE GUILDS	349
craft guilds , merchant guild , main purpose
ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS	350
Inns of Court , Middle Temple , Twelfth Night
THE ENGLISH FAMILY	354
single houses , male heir , American readers
THE ENGLISH STAGE	355
proscenium , actors , Elizabethan plays
ENGLISH SPORTS	363
bear-baiting , falconry , judicial combat
NOTABLE DAYS IN THE CALENDAR	370
Boy Bishop , Whitsunday , Childermas
CHURCHES AND FORMS OF WORSHIP	378
Roman Catholic church , established church , nonconformist
BYGONE BELIEFS AND SUPERSTITIONS	383
astrology , Ptolemaic astronomy , Alchemy

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The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature: English and American
By George Fullmer Reynolds, Garland Greever
Published by The Century Co., 1920
425 pages

Begin reading here

Bird World: A Bird Book for Children/Google Books

Click on title.

My Country: A Textbook in Civics and Patriotism for Young Americans/Google Books

From the introduction: "Many of the pupils in whose hands this book is placed will never read or study another discussion of civics and patriotism. Is it more important that they get from this text a detailed knowledge of the machinery of town, city, county, state, and national government, or that they get deeply implanted in their minds and hearts the conviction that America is really a nation founded on liberty, that it is a nation which looks to them to-day and every day to help in its building, that patriotism means making the most of every opportunity that this land of opportunities offers. The author has felt that unless the boy and the girl leave the elementary or junior high school with a definite conception of what America stands for, what it expects them to do now as boys and girls and later as men and women, they will be futile, even if well-meaning, citizens.

This book therefore aims to create a background which will help the teacher develop a spirit of true patriotism (this is accomplished by the early chapters in the book), and, when this has been kindled, to take the pupil into the technical part of the subject (the chapters on laws, government, taxes, thrift, etc.). In these chapters, as in the earlier ones, the pupil is never allowed to lose touch with the American spirit which is the keynote of the whole text. And finally he is led to symbolize love of country in a consideration of the flag. The Appendix will assist those teachers who wish to emphasize the mechanics of the subject in a broad way. The minor details of local government vary in each state and cannot be included in a text of this kind."

Begin reading here.
Main page

My Country: A Textbook in Civics and Patriotism for Young Americans

By Grace Alice Turkington, Newell Convers Wyeth

Illustrated by Newell Convers Wyeth

Published by Ginn and Company, 1918

394 pages

A Helpful Compilation fo Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

Click here. HT to Tea at Trianon.

Business Mathematics/Google Books

Click here to begin reading.

Main page
Business Mathematics: A Textbook for Schools
By Edward Ira Edgerton, Wallace Edgar Bartholomew
Published by The Ronald press company, 1921
305 pages

Vocational Mathematics for Girls/Google Books

Politically incorrect math for girls. ;) This book covers: household budgets, kitchen math, dress making, thrift and investment, farm math, and math in formally traditional female occupations outside the home.

Begin reading here.
Main page.

Vocational Mathematics for Girls

By William Henry Dooley

Published by D.C. Heath & co., 1917

369 pages

May or may not be useful for homeschool math, but it is interesting for cultural/history studies.

Warne's Victoria Picture Spelling Book(and more)

Warne's Victoria picture spelling book by Laura Valentine, Published by , 1866:

EASILY GRADUATED SPELLING LESSONS.
EASILY GRADUATED READING LESSONS.
EASY LESSONS IN GRAMMAR.
EASY LESSONS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
EASY LESSONS IN CHRONOLOGY.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION.

ARITHMETICAL TABLES.

POETRY.

WRITING LESSONS, ETC., ETC.

Begin reading here.
Main page

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know /Google Books

Click here to begin reading.

Main page

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Stories of All Time for Young People

By Hamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1907

300 pages

The children's picture-book of good and great men/Google Books

Easy reader for early elementary school.
Click here to start reading.
Main page

The children's picture-book of good and great men

Published by , 1860

At the Back of the North Wind/Google Books

Click here to begin reading.

Main page

At the Back of the North Wind

By George MacDonald, Jessie Willcox Smith

Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

Published by D. McKay, 1919

342 pages

Review:

"The book tells the story of a young country boy named Diamond. He is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. One night, as he is trying to sleep in the loft, Diamond plugs up several holes in the barn wall in order to stop the wind from blowing in. However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from going on her routes. Diamonds befriends her, and North Wind lets him ride on her back, taking him on several adventures.

Though North Wind does goods deeds and helps people, she is also does terrible things. In one of her mischievous acts, she sinks a ship. Yet everything bad leads to something good. North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good.

On their adventures, North Wind brings Diamond to the country she lives in; a country without pain and death.Yet, he is brought only in a shadow of the real country at the back of the North Wind. The real country is open for him only after his death. At the end of the book, Diamond dies, finally able to see the country.

In this book, MacDonald touches many theological and philosophical questions, especially concerning theodicy[A vindication of God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil.]. Today, it is considered one of his masterpieces."

Appropriate for later elementary and up. A good read aloud for younger children.

The Children's Picture-book of Quadrupeds and Other Mammalia/Google Books

Beginning zoology for early middle school.

Note: Chapter on "Man" is Biblical, and no Evolution Theory is mentioned. Many nice illustrations.

Click here to begin reading.
Main page

The Children's Picture-book of Quadrupeds: And Other Mammalia

By John George Wood, William Harvey

Illustrated by William Harvey

Published by Harper, 1861

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Feb 13, 2008

276 pages

Scenes in Africa/Google Books

This is a fascinating children's book Published in 1824 about North Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa. Of course, times have changed, and if read, should be read with an understanding that it is a glimpse back into old Africa. The style of writing reminds me of historical fiction written for children, so it's comfortably read even if out of date in regards to people and places. There is nothing dry or boring about this book, yet a lot of information and pictures are packed into each chapter.

I skimmed the initial section on North Africa and did not see anything written in a disrespectful manner. The author, a Christian minister writes as many Quaker authors would in that time period, without negative regard to race or religion. The book is mislabeled by Google as a book about America instead of Africa. The slave trade, abolished in Rev. Taylor's native England is described in detail and condemned.


Scenes in Africa: For the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-home Travellers
By Rev. Isaac Taylor
Published by John Harris, 1824(England)
120 pages

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The Age of Fable and The Age Chivalry /Google Books

Description at Dover Publications, "Bulfinch's Mythology is a classic retelling of the great myths and legends, from ancient Greece and Rome to the time of Charlemagne. The second volume, reprinted here, focuses on Arthurian legends, and covers such notables as Sir Gawin, Launcelot, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Tristan and Isolde, Robin Hood, and much more." ages 14 and Up. Note: Bulfinch comes at these fables from a Christian viewpoint.

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The Age of Chivalry

By Thomas Bulfinch

Published by Crosby, Nichols, 1859

414 pages

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The Age of Fable
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The Age of Fable

By Thomas Bulfinch

Published by George Routledge & sons, limited, 1905

394 pages

The Orange Seed(Christian)/Google Books

A gentle Christian girl's tale roughly for ages 9-12.

This is a nicely written, pleasant storyline for children, teaching them the morality of living through your soul rather than through the flesh. The story is free of any obvious denominational theology.

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The Orange Seed

By Sarah Schoonmaker Baker

Published by A.D.F. Randolph, 1863

103 pages

Tom, the Boater, A Tale of English Canal Life (Christian)/Google Books

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Tom, the Boater: A Tale of English Canal Life
By Emma Leslie, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain
Published by Religious Tract Society, 1882
160 pages