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

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Philippine Chart Primer

The Philippine chart primer
Authors Mary E. Coleman, Margaret A. Purcell, Orlando Schairer Reimold, John Woodside Ritchie
Publisher World book company, 1906
Length 53 pages
Overview

Monday, February 8, 2010

The Step-by-step Primer: a Self-instructor in Reading

The step-by-step primer: a self-instructor in reading by the use of Burnz' pronouncing print
Author Eliza Boardman Burnz
Publisher Burnz, 1892
Length 94 pages
Overview

Saturday, February 6, 2010

A Short History of Scotland/Google books

A short history of Scotland
Author Peter Hume Brown
Publisher Oliver and Boyd, 1908
Length 618 pages
Overview

Thursday, February 4, 2010

American Indian Story and Primer/Google Books

Kwahu, the Hopi Indian boy
Author George Newell Moran
Publisher American Book Company, 1913
Length 237 pages(color illustrations)
Download or read online here. Free and in public domain. Reading level about middle school and up.


Hopi paper dolls(1922) here.


For younger children, The Indian Primer, 1906. Readable online and downloadable.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Johnson's Primer/Google Books

Johnson's primer
Authors Henrietta H. Richardson, Blanche Wynne Johnson
Publisher B.F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1898
Length 46 pages
Overview

Monday, February 1, 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

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Graphics: a Manual of Drawing and Writing/Google Books


Graphics: a manual of drawing and writing, for the use of schools and families
American Culture Series, Art and Architecture collection
Author Rembrandt Peale
Publisher J. P. Peaslee, 1835
Length 86 pages
Overview

Friday, January 29, 2010

Art Appreciation/Google Books

The Appreciation of Pictures
Author Russell Sturgis
Publisher The Baker & Taylor co., 1905
Length 298 pages
Overview

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Preschool Picture Book


Cut and paste, or just for reading, The Children's Object Picture Book, Published/Created: London; New York: F. Warne & Co., [188-?]. Free and in public domain from the U.S. Library of Congress. Fully downloadable or readable online as HTML pages.

Features a home in 19th century London, England.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

First Book of Drawing/Google Books



First book of drawing: being exercises for children and young persons
Chamber's educational course
Author Robert Chambers
Publisher William and Robert Chambers, 1840
Length 11 pages
Overview

High School English/Google Books

Elements of High School English

Author Maude Morrison Frank
Publisher Longmans, Green, and co., 1915
Length 290 pages
Overview

Constructive Exercises in English
Author Maude Morrison Frank
Publisher Longmans, Green, and co., 1909
Length 154 pages
Overview

High School Exercises in Grammar
Author Maude Morrison Frank
Edition 5
Publisher Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915
Length 202 pages
Overview