Friday, March 12, 2010

The Age of Charlemagne/ Google Books

The Age of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)

Author Charles Luke Wells
Publisher Christian Literature Co., 1898
Length 472 pages
Overview

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Free Lesson Plans/Curriculum Guide for Grades Pre-K through Sixth

Using mostly free public domain books, Ivory shares her homeschool lesson plans here. It's Charlotte Mason style, mainly combining resources from these three sites: http://www.oldfashionededucation.com, http://www.materamabilis.org, and http://www.amblesideonline.com.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World/Google Books

Captain Cook's voyages round the world
Authors James Cook, Margaret Bertha Synge
Publisher Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1897
Length 512 pages
Overview

Friday, March 5, 2010

The Prang Primary Course in Art Education/Google books

The Prang primary course in art education, Part 1
Author Mary Dana Hicks
Publisher The Prang Educational Co., 1893
Length 168 pages
Overview

Part two here.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Children's Book of Stars/Google books

The children's book of stars
Author Geraldine Edith Mitton
Publisher Adam and Charles Black, 1908
Length 207 pages
Overview

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The Making of the Body: a Children's Book on Anatomy and Physiology

The making of the body: a children's book on anatomy and physiology : for school and home use
Authors Henrietta Barnett (Dame), Mrs. S. A. Barnett
Publisher Longmans, Green, 1894
Length 288 pages
Overview

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Wonder Book of the Atmosphere/Google Books

The wonder book of the atmosphere
Author Edwin James Houston
Publisher F.A. Stokes company, 1907
Length 326 pages
Overview

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010

The Book of the Ocean

The book of the ocean
Author Ernest Ingersoll
Publisher The Century co., 1898
Length 279 pages
Overview

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Everyday English- Grades 4-7/Google Books


Everyday English, Book 1(grades 4-6)
Everyday English, Franklin Thomas Baker
Author Franklin Thomas Baker
Publisher The Macmillan Co., 1912
Overview


Everyday English: Book 2(grades 7-8)
Authors Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1913
Length 336 pages
Overview

Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Boy's Froissart: Being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of Adventure, Battle, and Custom in England, France, Spain/Google Books

The boy's Froissart: being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of adventure, battle, and custom in England, France, Spain, etc
Editor Sidney Lanier
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1879
Length 422 pages
Overview

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Treasure Island with Teacher and Student Guide/Gooolge Books

Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson(unabridged)
Book is illustrated and contains teacher's suggestions for study, vocabulary list at Overview link page, biographical sketch, notes, and a book list. Introduction mentions that this edition is for seventh or eighth grade, but can adapted for earlier grades.

Treasure Island
Canterbury classics
Author Katharine Lee Bates
Editor Theda Gildemeister
Publisher Rand, McNally, 1903
Length 328 pages
Overview

Other Canterbury Classics for Children.

First Steps in Geometry/Google Books

First steps in geometry
Authors George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill
Publisher Ginn & company, 1901
Length 156 pages
Overview

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The Crescent Moon: Child-poems/Google Books

The crescent moon: child-poems
Author Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher Macmillan, 1914
Length 82 pages
Overview

Poetry and stories from India.

Monday, February 15, 2010

The Eclectic Physiology for Use in Schools/Google Books

The eclectic physiology for use in schools
Author Eli F. Brown
Publisher Van Antwerp, Bragg & co., 1884
Length 183 pages
Overview

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Canadian Readers, Book 4

Canadian readers, Book 4(fourth grade)
W.J. Gage & co.'s educational series
Author John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Publisher W.J. Gage, 1883
Length 320 pages
Overview

Unfortunately, only one grade found.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: Duchess of Thuringia/Google Books

Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: duchess of Thuringia
Author Charles Forbes Montalembert (comte de)
Publisher Longmans, Green, 1904
Length 493 pages
Overview