Title Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)
Chaucer Society publications
Editor Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher Pub. for the Chaucer society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd and by H. Frowde, 1908
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Dooryard Folks: and, A Winter Garden/Google Books
Title Dooryard Folks: and, A Winter Garden
Author Amanda Bartlett Harris
Publisher D. Lothrop, 1883
Length 207 pages
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Australia: Our Colonies, and Other Islands of the Sea/Google Books
Title Australia: Our Colonies, and Other Islands of the Sea
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
Author Frank George Carpenter
Publisher American Book Co., 1904
Length 432 pages
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"The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especially those which have become colonies or dependencies of the United States. Within the past few years our own territories have been extended to the other side of the globe. We have acquired new lands with new climates, resources, and products. We have adopted into our national family millions of people belonging to races different from ours, having different customs and a different civilization. In our far-away lands the whole aspect of nature seems changed, and we seem to be in a new world. This is so not only of Samoa, Hawaii, and the Philippines, but also of Porto Rico and our dependent sister republic of the West Indies, the great island of Cuba.
This book aims to take the children themselves into this new world. In a personally conducted tour through the eyes of the author they travel over it, seeing our brown-skinned cousins of the several colonies as they are at home. They learn about the resources of the various islands, and of their value to the United States. They visit the people on the farms and in the factories. They spend some time in the cities and villages, and they explore the wilds, observing the wonders of plant and animal creation."
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
Author Frank George Carpenter
Publisher American Book Co., 1904
Length 432 pages
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"The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especially those which have become colonies or dependencies of the United States. Within the past few years our own territories have been extended to the other side of the globe. We have acquired new lands with new climates, resources, and products. We have adopted into our national family millions of people belonging to races different from ours, having different customs and a different civilization. In our far-away lands the whole aspect of nature seems changed, and we seem to be in a new world. This is so not only of Samoa, Hawaii, and the Philippines, but also of Porto Rico and our dependent sister republic of the West Indies, the great island of Cuba.
This book aims to take the children themselves into this new world. In a personally conducted tour through the eyes of the author they travel over it, seeing our brown-skinned cousins of the several colonies as they are at home. They learn about the resources of the various islands, and of their value to the United States. They visit the people on the farms and in the factories. They spend some time in the cities and villages, and they explore the wilds, observing the wonders of plant and animal creation."
Saturday, January 8, 2011
January Multi-grade Stories and Lessons/Google Books
Continental Third Grade Reader: The Little Lapp(Lapplanders of northern Scandinavia, AKA: Sami).
Reindeer Traveling, excerpted from Northern Travel by Bayard Taylor, The New century: 4th-5th Reader.
Boys of Other Countries: Stories for American Boys - Jon of Iceland(late elementary- early middle school)
St. Nicholas magazine, The Stars for January
Good English, Oral and Written, Book 1-3: January (early elementary)
School Education: The Nuthatch
Our Winter Birds
New-Year and Midwinter Exercises, for Children of Ten to Fifteen Years(recitation, poetry, drama): January
The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture:Quotations, January Calendar(birthdays, events, and study) and The Story of January.
Nature Year Book, January(prose and poetry for each day of the year)
Agoonack, the Esquimau[Eskimo] Sister
Early elementary sewing card(click on image to enlarge and save):
Nature Study by Grades: a Textbook for Higher Grammar Grades(poses questions for research)
- Sixth grade winter study
- Seventh grade winter study
Trees in Winter. Identifying trees and their fruit in winter(dry technical book, but good pictures and illustrations.)
Winter(nature study)"The author points out the sights and sounds of winter, and discusses the how and why, so that children may come to love winter for its own sake."(early-mid elementary)
More later.....
Also see: Multi-grade Winter Homeschooling Lessons
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
My New Search Box
I've added a search box on my sidebar. It should be much easier to find items on this blog with key words now. The Google search box was not working well, so I've deleted it.
Lessons in Nature/Google Books
Title Lessons in Nature
Author William Horace Williams
Publisher Educational Publishing Company, 1915
Overview
Author William Horace Williams
Publisher Educational Publishing Company, 1915
Overview
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
About the Weather/Google Books
Title About the Weather
Author Mark Walrod Harrington
Publisher Appleton, 1899
Length 246 pages
Overview
Author Mark Walrod Harrington
Publisher Appleton, 1899
Length 246 pages
Overview
Saturday, January 1, 2011
The King and Queen of Hearts/Google Books
Title The King and Queen of Hearts
Authors Charles Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas
Illustrated by William Mulready
Publisher Methuen, 1809
Length 15 pages
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Fully illustrated and written in old English. The "S's are written as "F's".
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Basket Woman: a Book of Fanciful Indian Tales for Children
Title The Basket Woman: a Book of Fanciful Tales for Children
Author Mary Hunter Austin
Publisher Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904
Length 220 pages
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Author Mary Hunter Austin
Publisher Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904
Length 220 pages
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Chin: Our Little Siamese Cousin/Google Books
Title Chin: Our Little Siamese Cousin
The Little Cousin Series
Author Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Illustrated by Lewis Jesse Bridgman
Publisher L.C. Page, 1912
Length 110 pages
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The Little Cousin Series
Author Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Illustrated by Lewis Jesse Bridgman
Publisher L.C. Page, 1912
Length 110 pages
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Gabriel and the Hour Book/Google Books
Title Gabriel and the Hour Book
Author Evaleen Stein
Publisher L.C. Page & Company, 1906
Length 173 pages
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Summary:
Yesterday's Classics, 2005 - Fiction - 100 pages
Relates the story of the making of an "hour book" as a wedding gift from King Louis of France to Lady Anne of Brittany and the good fortune it brought to little Gabriel, Brother Stephen's color grinder. Inspired by the bunch of violets and cuckoo-buds Gabriel brings into the workroom, Brother Stephen conceives a new idea for an illuminated border. Instead of painting the border with scrolls and birds and flowers in the conventional way, he would decorate the book with borders of gold on which he would paint in realistic fashion the meadow wildflowers, and bees and butterflies, and all the little flying creatures. As Brother Stephen's color grinder, Gabriel makes the ink, grinds the gold, gathers the flowers, and prepares the colors for him. After the book is completed, Gabriel slips into the book a sheet on which he has penned a prayer to Lady Anne: "I, Gabriel Viaud, am Brother Stephen's colour-grinder; and I have made the ink for this book, and the glue, and caught the eels, and ground the gold and colours, and ruled the lines and gathered the flowers for the borders, and so I pray the Lord God will be kind and let my father out of prison in Count Pierre's castle, and tell Count Pierre to give us back our meadow and sheep, for we cannot pay the tax, and mother says we will starve." How his prayer is answered unfolds in the ensuing chapters. Evaleen Stein brings the medieval world to life for younger students through her stories set in the Middle Ages. A century ago when this book was first published, a reviewer in the Louisville Daily Courier wrote, "No works in juvenile fiction contain so many of the elements that stir the hearts of children and grown-ups as well as do the stories soadmirably told by this author."
Author Evaleen Stein
Publisher L.C. Page & Company, 1906
Length 173 pages
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Summary:
Yesterday's Classics, 2005 - Fiction - 100 pages
Relates the story of the making of an "hour book" as a wedding gift from King Louis of France to Lady Anne of Brittany and the good fortune it brought to little Gabriel, Brother Stephen's color grinder. Inspired by the bunch of violets and cuckoo-buds Gabriel brings into the workroom, Brother Stephen conceives a new idea for an illuminated border. Instead of painting the border with scrolls and birds and flowers in the conventional way, he would decorate the book with borders of gold on which he would paint in realistic fashion the meadow wildflowers, and bees and butterflies, and all the little flying creatures. As Brother Stephen's color grinder, Gabriel makes the ink, grinds the gold, gathers the flowers, and prepares the colors for him. After the book is completed, Gabriel slips into the book a sheet on which he has penned a prayer to Lady Anne: "I, Gabriel Viaud, am Brother Stephen's colour-grinder; and I have made the ink for this book, and the glue, and caught the eels, and ground the gold and colours, and ruled the lines and gathered the flowers for the borders, and so I pray the Lord God will be kind and let my father out of prison in Count Pierre's castle, and tell Count Pierre to give us back our meadow and sheep, for we cannot pay the tax, and mother says we will starve." How his prayer is answered unfolds in the ensuing chapters. Evaleen Stein brings the medieval world to life for younger students through her stories set in the Middle Ages. A century ago when this book was first published, a reviewer in the Louisville Daily Courier wrote, "No works in juvenile fiction contain so many of the elements that stir the hearts of children and grown-ups as well as do the stories soadmirably told by this author."
Monday, December 20, 2010
Eighth Reader, the Introduction to Literature/Google Books
Title Eighth Reader, the Introduction to Literature
Authors Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1918
Length 415 pages
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Authors Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1918
Length 415 pages
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Friday, December 17, 2010
First Spanish Reader: with Grammatical and Conversational Exercises
Title First Spanish Reader: with Grammatical and Conversational Exercises(seventh - eighth grades)
Author Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa
Publisher B.H. Sanborn & Co., 1920
Length 265 pages
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Author Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa
Publisher B.H. Sanborn & Co., 1920
Length 265 pages
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa/Project Gutenberg
By Elphinstone Dayrell, 1910
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The Story of the Ancient Nations: A Text-book for High Schools/Google Books
Title The Story of the Ancient Nations: A Text-book for High Schools
Author William Linn Westermann
Publisher D. Appleton and Company, 1912
Length 554 pages
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Author William Linn Westermann
Publisher D. Appleton and Company, 1912
Length 554 pages
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Monday, December 13, 2010
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