Monday, November 1, 2010

Nature Study by Grades - Sixth Through Ninth/Google Books

Covers topics by season.

Title Nature Study by Grades(a textbook for grades six, seven, and eight)
Author Horace Hall Cummings
Publisher American Book Company, 1910
Length 274 pages
Overview

Irish Fairy Tales/Google Books

Title Irish Fairy Tales
Author James Stephens
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1920
Length 314 pages
Overview

Friday, October 29, 2010

Our Old World Background/Google Books

Title Our Old World Background
Authors Charles Austin Beard, William Chandler Bagley
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1922
Length 504 pages
Overview

Very general coverage...probably for fifth or sixth grade.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

All the Year Round:a Nature Reader, Part One: Autumn/Google Books

Title All the Year round: a Nature Reader, Part One: Autumn
Authors Frances Lucia Strong, Martha Allen Luther Lane, Margaret Lane
Publisher Ginn & Company, 1898
Overview

Farm Friends and Farm Foes/Google Books

Title Farm Friends and Farm Foes: a Text-book of Agricultural Science
Author Clarence Moores Weed
Publisher D.C. Heath & Co., 1910
Length 334 pages
Overview

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A Book of Sea Stories/Google books

Title A Book of Sea Stories
Volume 15 of The young folks' library
Author Cyrus Townsend Brady
Publisher Hall & Locke Co., 1901
Length 376 pages
Overview

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists/Google Books

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
Author Elbert Hubbard
Publisher The Roycrofters, 1902
Overview

A little wordy and eccentric, but interesting back stories. If you are studying the Arts and Crafts movement, Hubbard was influential in the United States.

More about The Roycrafters here.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Garden Swing, and Other Stories(Reader)/Google Books

Title The Garden Swing, and Other Stories:
Publisher T. Nelson and Sons, 1885
Overview
Appears to be third to fourth grade level reading

Friday, October 22, 2010

Myths of Northern Lands: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art

Title Myths of Northern Lands: Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art
Author Hélène Adeline Guerber
Publisher American Book Company, 1895
Length 319 pages
Overview

Thursday, October 21, 2010

The See and Say Series Readers Book 1/Google Books

Book One, as the title-page explains, is a Picture Book, which, by means of its pictures and stories, presents and teaches the sounds of the letters of the alphabet, with simple lessons in word building.

The See and Say Series, Book 1, Teacher's Manual 


The See and Say Series Book 1

I ordered this book via QOOP, on the sidebar on main page at link. They will print the exact PDF as a paperback book copy for you. I've been going through this with my daughter(Pre-K/K) who is enjoying all the adventurous pictures, which are stories unto themselves. This is an enjoyable beginning letter sound/phonics book.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Language, Grammar, and Composition(6,7,8 grades)/Google Books

Title Language, Grammar, and Composition
Authors William Franklin Webster, Alice Woodworth Cooley
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905
Length 385 pages
Overview

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Book of Cats and Dogs, and Other Friends, for Little Folks/Google Books

Title Book of Cats and Dogs, and Other Friends, for Little Folks
Author James Johonnot
Publisher D. Appleton and co., 1887
Length 96 pages
Overview

Saturday, October 16, 2010

The Literary Reader for Higher Grades, Book 6/Google Books

Title The Literary Reader for Higher Grades, Book 6
The Literary Reader for Higher Grades, Kate Forrest Oswell
Authors Kate Forrest Oswell, Charles Benajah Gilbert
Publisher The Macmillan Co., 1912
Length 591 pages
Overview

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers /Google Books

Title Squirrels and other fur-bearers
Author John Burroughs
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900
Length 149 pages
Overview

Monday, October 11, 2010

The Boys' and Girls' Readers: Sixth[grade] Reader/Google Books

Title The Boys' and Girls' Readers: Sixth[grade] Reader
Author Emma Miller Bolenius
Publisher Houghton Mifflin, 1919
Overview

Teacher's Manual

The Boys' and Girls' Reader: Fourth[Grade] Reader/Google Books

Title The Boys' and Girls' Reader: Fourth[Grade] Reader
Author Emma Miller Bolenius
Publisher Houghton Mifflin company, 1919
Overview

Teacher's Manual

Colonial Virginia/Google Books

Title Colonial Virginia
Authors Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Travis Butler Thames
Length 388 pages
Publisher Times-Dispatch Company, 1907
Overview

Thursday, October 7, 2010

How to Study Nature in Elementary School/Google Books

Title How to Study Nature in Elementary School: A Flexible Manual for Teachers
Author John Dawson Wilson
Publisher C.W. Bardeen, 1900
Length 63 pages
Overview

Monday, October 4, 2010

Stories of Woods and Fields/Google Books

Title Stories of Woods and Fields
Nature and industry readers
Author Elizabeth Virginia Brown
Publisher World book company, 1902
Length 192 pages
Overview

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Nature Pictures by American Poets(Seasonal Poetry)/Google books

Title Nature Pictures by American Poets
Editor Annie Russell Marble
Compiled by Annie Russell Marble
Publisher the Macmillan company, 1899
Length 205 pages
Overview

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither/Google Books

Title Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither
Author Olive Thorne Miller
Illustrated by Hildibrand, A. Mesnel, Ecosse
Publisher E. P. Dutton & Company, 1880
Length 357 pages
Overview

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Life Histories of American Insects/Google Books

Title Life Histories of American Insects
Author Clarence Moores Weed
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1897
Length 272 pages
Overview

Grasshopper Green's Garden: A Nature Reader for Elementary Schools

Title Grasshopper Green's Garden: the story of some wonderful little lives : a nature reader for elementary schools
Author Julia Augusta Schwartz
Publisher Little, Brown, and Co., 1909
Length 197 pages
Overview

The Golden Ladder Book(Third Grade Reader)/Google Books

"This particular book, designed for pupils approximately of the third grade, embodies all the fundamental features of the Series. It deals with the virtues and vices peculiar to children of this age. The material has been prepared with the utmost care. Very naturally in a Reader for pupils of this grade the personal, home, and school virtues are especially emphasized rather than those of a broader social life, which belong to a later period of the child's unfolding...."

Title The Golden Ladder Book: A School Reader

Authors Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens
Publisher Macmillan, 1913
Length 264 pages
Overview

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints/Google Books

Title Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints: with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other approved sources : to which are added lives of the American saints : placed on the calendar for the United States by special petition of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore
Editor John Gilmary Shea
Publisher Benziger, 1894
Length 625 pages
Overview

Something New at Google Books - Public Domain Books in Print

You can now request printed copies in paperback of your favorite public domain online books at Google Books. Look for the "QOOP" link on the right panel under the "Get This Book" heading on all "Overview" pages. Prices seem fairly low. This is an opportunity to have access to new paperback versions of books not currently in commercial reprint, or if they are in reprint, at a reduced cost.

Example:
Get this book
AbeBooks
Alibris
QOOP (look for this)
Amazon
Google Product Search

Children of Ancient Rome/Google Books

Title Children of Ancient Rome
Author Louise Lamprey
Publisher Little, Brown, and Company, 1922
Length 262 pages
Overview

Friday, September 17, 2010

Child's History of Rome, to Octavius Caesar, surnamed Augustus, and the Birth of Jesus Christ/Google Books

Title Child's history of Rome, to Octavius Cæsar, surnamed Augustus, and the birth of Jesus Christ: The conquests of the seven hills
Author Caroline Hyde Butler Laing
Publisher H.T. Coates & co., 1875
Overview

Romulus/Google Books

Title Romulus
Author Jacob Abbott
Publisher Harper, 1901
Length 310 pages
Overview

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Child's Zoological Garden/Google Books

Title The Child's Zoological Garden
Published 1881
Pages 262
Overview

Formal and indepth. Written for older children, or as a read aloud.

Monday, September 13, 2010

The Ice King, and the Sweet South Wind/Google Books

Fanciful stories for young children which teach morals.

Title: The Ice King, and the Sweet South Wind
Author: Caroline Hyde Butler Laing
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1853
Length 176 pages
Overview

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Writing in English: a Modern School Composition/Google Books

Title Writing in English: a modern school composition
Maxwell's English series
Authors William Henry Maxwell, George James Smith
Publisher American Book Co., 1900
Length 269 pages
Overview

Friday, September 10, 2010

Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales/Google Books

Title: Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales
Author: Eulalie Osgood Grover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Length: 78 pages
Overview

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A Dictionary of the English Language/Google Books

Title: A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher: American Book Co., 1892
Overview

Hide and Seek( Early Reader)/Google Books

Appears to be about a third grade level.
Title: Hide and seek
Publisher: Dodd, Mead, 1881
Length: 45 pages
Overview

Friday, September 3, 2010

Will Shakespeare's Little Lad/Google Books

Title: Will Shakespeare's Little Lad
Author: Imogen Clark
Publisher: C. Scribner's sons, 1897
Length: 306 pages
Overview

1914 Review:
In view of the coming celebration in the public schools of New York City on April twenty-third of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, attention is directed afresh to Miss Imogen Clark's book, "Will Shakespeare's Little Lad."* sic[Three] children were born to William Shakespeare and his wife, sic[two] of whom were girls. The one boy, Hamnet, was born in 1583, and died when he was thirteen. Around the figure of this youth Miss Clark wove a story which by reason of its historical atmosphere, its imaginative skill, and its tenderness of feeling has appealed with uncommon force to not a few of the most famous Shakespearian scholars and interpreters of the time.
Thus the late Dr. Horace Howard Furness wrote to the author of the book, "Will Shakespeare's Little Lad":
"You have woven great romance about that little life, and seem to have retreated three hundred years in all your ways of thought and turns of expression, without losing those human instincts which are of no age but eternal."
The late Sir Henry Irving wrote:
"Although at first glance your story seems intended for juvenile readers, it is of interest and value to every admirer of the great poet because of the fidelity of the colour. The atmosphere of the day is reflected with rare charm, and the phraseology of the times is wonderfully depicted. The whole conception is exquisitely poetic, and there is beside a masterly delineation of character. I congratulate you heartily upon your work."
W. J. Rolfe wrote:
"The story is one that the young folks who are beginning to become acquainted with the poet will read with pleasure and profit, and children of larger growth will enjoy it as well. I take every opportunity to commend the book to my classes and everybody else."
Locke Richardson wrote of the story:
"It is a triumph of combined knowledge, imagination, and felicitous expression, and, moreover, is so illuminated with local colour and smacks so of the flavour of the time that it positively seems like a true story."
The late Dr. Robert Collyer wrote to the author:
"I have read your story of 'Will Shakespeare's Little Lad' once through and a half—the first half—and want to tell you of my great pleasure. It is a beautiful thing in conception and indeed done by the heart's sight which is the truest insight. He was a mere name, the little lad, evanescent as one of the fairies born of Shakespeare's imagination. Those who read the story will verify the lad in your portrait."

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Well-known Piano Solos: How to Play Them(Advanced)/Google Books

Title: Well-known Piano Solos: How to Play Them(advanced)
Author: Charles W. Wilkinson
Editor: Edward Ellsworth Hipsher
Publisher: Theo. Presser Co., 1915
Length: 278 pages
Overview

Monday, August 30, 2010

Child Life in All Lands/Google Books

Title: Child Life in All Lands
Author: Lindley Smyth
Publisher: John C. Winston, 1906
Length: 252 pages
Overview

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Benziger's Elementary Geography for Catholic Schools/Google

Title: Benziger's Elementary Geography for Catholic Schools
Author: Benziger Brothers
Publisher: Benziger Bros., 1920
Length: 135 pages
Overview

Thursday, August 26, 2010

An Evening in Autumn(Social Studies)/Google Books

" The name of this newly invented game," said she, "shall be the Useful Amusement, because it will combine use with pleasure. Each of you being provided with a pencil and paper, shall write a question—ask something you wish to know; as, What is coffee ? What is tea ? and so on. Now, since these different things may come from different parts of the world, we will have maps laid ready upon the table, to look for each place.


Tea comes from China—we will look for China; Coffee from Arabia—well, we will then find Arabia. And in this manner you will learn two things at once, and gain knowledge even whilst you play."


"That will be delightful," said Charlotte, a clever little girl about eight years old; " but who is to answer our questions?"

Title: An Evening in Autumn; or, The Useful Amusement: Intended for Children
Publisher: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1821
Length: 110 pages
Overview

Monday, August 23, 2010

The Little Kingdom First Reader/Google Books

The Little Kingdom First Reader
Author: Nettie Alice Sawyer
Publisher: Rand McNally & Co., 1912
Length: 144 pages
Overview

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010

The Child's Book of Health in Easy Lessons for Schools/Google Books








Title: The Child's Book of Health in Easy Lessons for Schools
Authors: Albert Franklin Blaisdell, Ginn and Company, Scientific Temperance Federation
Publisher: Ginn & company, 1893
Length 136 pages
Overview

Thursday, August 12, 2010

A Primer(Easy Reader)/Google Books

Title A Primer
California State series
Author Catherine Turner Bryce
Publisher W.W. Shannon, 1910
Length 141 pages
Overview

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Kindergarten at Home/Google Books

Kindergarten at Home: A Kindergarten Course for the Individual Child at Home
Author Virgil Mores Hillyer
Publisher Baker, 1911
Length 152 pages
Overview

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Robinson Crusoe Silhouettes/Google Books

Title Robinson Crusoe silhouettes: the complete story of Robinson Crusoe in silhouettes
Author Daniel Defoe
Publisher A. Flanagan Company, 1922
Digitized Jul 30, 2009
Overview

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Leaves and Flowers, or, Plant Studies for Young Readers/Google Books

Title Leaves and Flowers, or, Plant Studies for Young Readers
Author Mary A. Spear
Publisher D.C. Heath & Co., 1893
Length 103 pages
Overview

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Stepping Stones to Literature - First Reader/Google books

Title Stepping Stones to Literature
Authors Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert
Publisher Silver, Burdett and company, 1902
Length 128 pages
Overview

Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln/Google books

Title Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln
Author James Baldwin
Publisher Werner School Book Co., 1897
Length 246 pages
Overview

Friday, July 23, 2010

The Sunday Picture-book/Google Books

Title The Sunday Picture-book
Publisher Chapman and Hall, 1852
Length 102 pages
Overview


"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness : for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.‎"

The Children's Picture-book of Useful Knowledge/Google Books

Title The Children's Picture-book of Useful Knowledge
Author Meredith Jones
Publisher Bell and Daldy, 1862
Length 260 pages
Overview

"Preface: In the 'Children's Bible Picture-Book', I told my little friends about God; how He made the world, with every living thing upon it, and sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to live, as a man, in it, that He might at last bring us to live with Him in heaven. In the Picture-Book of great and good men, I told them about men who had done great, or good, or useful deeds. I shall now tell them something about food, clothing, and shelter; for I sometimes hear children asking questions about these things, when there is no one at hand to answer them. Here they can read for themselves what they want to know, and when they have finished, they may, if they like, turn to the questions at the end of the book, and find out how much they remember of what they have read. For reading, without remembering, I must tell them, is of very little use."

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Outlines of History/Google Books

Title Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical Notes and Maps: Embracing: Part I. Ancient History, Part II. Modern History
Author Marcius Willson
Publisher Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co., 1874
Overview

The Golden Deed Book: A Sixth Grade School Reader/Google books

Title The Golden Deed Book: A School Reader
Volume 6 of Golden rule series
Authors Elias Hershey Sneath, George Hodges, Edward Lawrence Stevens
Publisher Macmillan, 1913
Length 351 pages
Overview

Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Story of the Moors in Spain/Google Books

The Story of the Moors in Spain
Authors Stanley Lane-Poole, Arthur Gilman
Publisher G. P. Putnam's sons, 1886
Length 285 pages
Overview

Germany /Google Books

Germany
Story of the Nations
Authors Sabine Baring-Gould, Arthur Gilman
Publisher Unwin, 1886
Length 447 pages
Overview

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Captains of Industry/Google Books

Captains of Industry: A Book for Young Americans, by James Parton
Author James Parton
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891
Overview

1912 edition here.

Monday, July 12, 2010

A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl/Google Books

A little candy book for a little girl
Author Amy Harlow Lane Waterman
Publisher Page Co., 1918
Length 144 pages
Overview

Friday, July 9, 2010

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Little People and Their Homes in Meadows, Woods and Waters/Google Books

Little people and their homes in meadows, woods and waters
Authors Stella Louise Hook, Daniel Carter Beard, Harry Beard
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888
Length 228 pages
Overview

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Friday, June 25, 2010

The Golden Galleon/Google Books

The golden galleon
Author Robert Leighton
Publisher Blackie, 1898
Overview

"This is a story of Queen Elizabeth's time(1591), just after the defeat of the
Spanish Armada. Mr. Leighton introduces in his work the great sea-
fighters of Plymouth town Hawkins, Drake, Raleigh, and Richard
Grenville." Source here.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The Jack of All Trades(Boys' Leisure Ideas)/Google Books


The Jack of all trades: fair weather ideas
Author Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1904
Length 185 pages
Overview

Table of Contents

Monday, June 21, 2010

Text-book of Palaeontology/Google Books

Text-book of palaeontology
Volume 2 of Text-book of Paleontology, Charles Rochester Eastman
Author Karl Alfred von Zittel
Editor Charles Rochester Eastman
Publisher Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902
Overview

Sunday, June 20, 2010

For Playground, Field and Forest: The Outdoor Handy Book‎/Google Books

For playground, field and forest: the outdoor handy book
Author Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1907
Length 496 pages
Overview

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Children's Book of Patriotic Stories: the Spirit of '76/Google Books

Children's book of patriotic stories: the spirit of '76
Editors Asa Don Dickinson, Helen Winslow Dickinson Dickinson
Publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917
Length 305 pages
Overview

The American Republic: a Text in Civics for High Schools

The American republic: a text in civics for high schools, academies and normal schools
Author Samuel Eagle Forman
Publisher The Century Co., 1911
Length 359 pages
Overview

Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Way of the King's Palace, Eighth Grade Reader/Google Books

The way of the king's palace, Volume 8; Volume 1916
King's highway series
The Way of the King's Palace, Elias Hershey Sneath
Author Elias Hershey Sneath
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 284 pages
Overview

Friday, June 11, 2010

The Master of the Strong Hearts: a Story of Custer's Last Rally

The master of the strong hearts: a story of Custer's last rally
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher E.P. Dutton and Company, 1898
Length 314 pages
Overview

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Long Walls: an American Boy's Adventures in Greece/Google Books

The long walls: an American boy's adventures in Greece; a story of digging and discovery, temples and treasure
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, John Alden
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896
Length 328 pages
Overview

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Historic Boys: Their Endeavors, Their Achievements and Their Times/Google Books

Historic boys: their endeavors, their achievements and their times
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher G. P. Putnams̓ Sons, 1885
Length 259 pages
Overview

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Course of Study and Manual of Methods/Google Books

Course of study and manual of methods for the district schools of Michigan
Author Michigan. Dept. of Education
Publisher Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, 1914
Length 200 pages

For grades one through eight, helpful lists and reading suggestions sorted by grade.

Overview

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Fortune of the Republic/Google Books

Fortune of the republic
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher Houghton, Osgood and company, 1878
Length 44 pages
Overview
Eighth grade reading.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Enoch Arden: Including also the Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for School and Home Use/Google Books

Student version with Cliff Notes type background and analysis.

Enoch Arden: including also the Lotus eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for school and home use
Author Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Publisher E. Maynard & co., 1890
Length 54 pages
Overview