Saturday, August 16, 2008

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines/Project Gutenberg


Interesting short biographical stories from 500 B.C. through 1920 of famous men and women for elementary school children. Click here. Unusual in that it includes Buddha and Muhammed.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Vintage Catholic Comic Books


"The Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact was a Catholic comic book published by George A. Pflaum of Dayton, Ohio, and provided to Catholic parochial school students between 1946 and 1972. The digital collection is a project that includes the first eighteen volumes running from 1946 to 1963. (Some issues in Volume 4 are missing.)"

Click here.

HT to Soutenus

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Fourth of July Stories, Independence Day (USA)

A few Fourth of July stories from Good Stories for Great Holidays. See Table of Contents here, and then "page forward" at link.