The New Civics: A Textbook for Secondary Schools/Google Books

Title The New Civics: A Textbook for Secondary Schools
Author Roscoe Lewis Ashley
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1917
Length 420 pages
Read here.

Early European Civilization: a Textbook for Secondary Schools(Prehistory to Reformation)

Title Early European Civilization: a Textbook for Secondary Schools
Author Roscoe Lewis Ashley
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 719 pages
See here.

St. Valentine's Day Children's Stories, Songs, Crafts, and Activities

Stories and Lesson Plans:

In the Child's World:Kindergarten - elementary school level story.

Kindergarten at Home. Story.

Child-garden Story: Four Letters, a St. Valentine's Day Story. Early elementary read-aloud. Read-alone: advanced elementary level reader.

"Tell it Again" Stories: Elaine's Valentine's - reading level about third grade.

Read-aloud story: Elementary School

Elementary school poem.

Beginning Reader: The Story of St. Valentine.

The story of St. Valentine from the third grade Standard Catholic reader , and another from the The Haliburton Second Reader.

St. Valentine Story with comprehension questions. About a third grade reading level, and another for about a second or third grade reading level.

Three Valentine's Day Stories (read-aloud)

Click and print Valentine's Day poem for little girls.

A Book of Programs - St. Valentine's Day Lesson Plan - Kindergarten and up , and here as well.

Crafts:

Suggestions for Handwork in School and Home(crafts) Blackline templates for cupid angel card and more. This is the best! Many designs with instructions and card greetings.

More templates for St. Valentine's Day Cards.

Manual Training - Occupations(crafts)

Blacklines for cupid and little girl with heart, pages 84-85.

Bumped up from 2008.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave(Audiobook)/Other

The male narrator has a great voice - very clear, and the sound quality is excellent.

Click here to FreeAudio.org. This link includes background history for students. Audio comes in three parts and a zip file with all is available. At the link, Click on audio in order to listen online and/or right click, and "save file as" to download.

Chandra in India/Google Books

Title Chandra in India(A Geographical Reader)
Little People Everywhere
Author Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald
Publisher Little, Brown, and Company, 1916
Length 111 pages
See here.

Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know/Google Books

Title Wild Flowers Every Child Should Know: Arranged According to Color, with Reliable Descriptions of the More Common Species of the United States and Canada
Author Frederic William Stack
Publisher Doubleday, Page and Company, 1914
Length 411 pages

See here.

A Guide for the Study of Animals/Project Gutenberg

Click here.

Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers

Title Natural History Object Lessons: A Manual for Teachers
Author George Ricks
Publisher D.C. Heath, 1891
Length 352 pages
Click here

Saints and Festivals of the Christian Church/Google Books

Title Saints and Festivals of the Christian Church
Author H. Pomeroy Brewster
Publisher F. A. Stokes, 1904
Length 558 pages
Click here.

How Our Grandfathers Lived/Google Books

Title How Our Grandfathers Lived
Authors Albert Bushnell Hart, Annie Bliss Chapman
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 371 pages
Click here.

Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Stories of American History /Google Books

Title Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Stories of American History
for the Children's Hour Series
May G. Quigley collection
Author Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Publisher Milton Bradley company, 1919
Length 240 pages
Click here.

Stories of the Nibelungen(Germanic/Old Norse Tales) for Young People/Project Gutenberg

Read and download here.

Excerpt:

YOUNG SIEGFRIED

In the good old days of Long Ago, when kings had absolute power over all their subjects, even in the matter of life and death, there dwelt in the city of Santum, on the beautiful Rhine River, a great and good king named Siegmund.

He was very powerful, and ruled over the kingdom of Niederland so wisely and so well that he was[8] loved and honored by all his people. He shared his throne with Siegelinda, his beautiful wife, who also was noble and kind of heart.

The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy(Civil War)/Google Books

Title The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy
Author Harry M. Kieffer
Published 1911
Here.
From the preface:"Several years ago the writer prepared a brief series of papers for the columns of St. Nicholas, under the title of "Recollections of a Drummer-Boy." It was thought that these sketches of army life, as seen by a boy, would prove enjoyable and profitable to children in general, and especially to the children of the men who participated in the great Civil War, on one side or the other; while the belief was entertained that they might at the same time serve to revive in the minds of the veterans themselves long-forgotten or but imperfectly remembered scenes and experiences in camp and field. In the outstart it was not the author's design to write a connected story, but rather simply to prepare a few brief and hasty sketches of army life, drawn from his own personal experience and suitable for magazine purposes. But these, though prepared in such intervals as could with difficulty be spared from the exacting duties of a busy professional life, having been so kindly received by the editors of St. Nicholas, as well as by the very large circle of readers of that excellent magazine, and the writer having been urgently pressed on all sides for more of the same kind, it was thought well to revise and enlarge the "Recollections of a Drummer-Boy," and to present them to the public in permanent book form. In the shape of a more or less connected story of army life, covering the whole period of a soldier's experience from enlistment to muster-out, and carried forward through all the stirring scenes of camp and field, it was believed that these "Recollections," in the revised form, would commend themselves not only to the children of the soldiers of the late war, but to the surviving soldiers themselves; while at the same time they would possess a reasonable interest for the general reader as well."

A Mother's List of Books for Children/Project Gutenberg

A wonderful reference for finding public domain children's books. These books are listed by age, ages two - fourteen, and topic. I've already found quite a few at Google Books for my thirteen year old, of which I'll be sharing over the next week.

Click here. HTML version is the easiest to work of off with searches - quick copy and paste.

Stories of Art and Artists/Google Books

Title Stories of Art and Artists
Author Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Publisher Ticknor and company, 1887
Length 357 pages
Click here.

This book pairs well with Garden of Praise's free art appreciation lessons(scroll all the way down to bottom at the link). This is for younger children, and has color high definition images of the many of the paintings mentioned in Clara Water's book. There are also online quizzes, worksheets, etc. and helpful links.

Rolf in the Woods/Project Gutenberg

"In this story I have endeavoured to realize some of the influences that surrounded the youth of America a hundred years ago, and made of them, first, good citizens, and, later, in the day of peril, heroes that won the battles of Lake Erie, Plattsburg, and New Orleans, and the great sea fights of Porter, Bainbridge, Decatur, Lawrence, Perry, and MacDonough.

I have especially dwelt in detail on the woodland and peace scouting in the hope that I may thus help other boys to follow the hard-climbing trail that leads to the higher uplands. "

Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton

Two Indian Children of Long Ago/Project Gutenberg

Two Indian Children of Long Ago by Frances Taylor, 1922.
See here.

Boy's Book of Pirates/Google Books

Title Boy's Book of Pirates
Author Howard Pyle
Publisher Harper, 1908
Length 238 pages
Read here.

Stories of Chivalry Retold from the St. Nicholas Magazine/Google Books

Title Stories of Chivalry Retold from St. Nicholas
Publisher The Century co., 1909
Length 192 pages
Overview

Indian Stories Retold From the St. Nicholas Magazine/Project Gutenberg

See here.

Theodore Roosevelt, Patriot and Statesman/Google Books

Title Theodore Roosevelt, Patriot and Statesman: The True Story of an Ideal American
Author Robert Cornelius V. Meyers
Publisher P. W. Ziegler & Co. [c1902], 1902
Length 621 pages
See here.

Free Word Processor: Jarte

We've been using this free download program for years to print copy-and-paste school materials.

"Jarte \jär · 'tay\ noun (est. 2001) 1. A free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows. 2. A fast starting, easy to use word processor that expands well beyond the WordPad feature set. 3. A small, portable word processor whose documents are fully compatible with Word and WordPad." See more here.

Bow-wow and Mew-mew(Easy Reader)/Google Books

Title Bow-wow and Mew-mew
Author Georgiana Marion Craik
Publisher Beckley-Cardy, 1914
Length 95 pages
Click here

Bow-Wow And Mew-mew is one of the few books for beginners in reading that may be classed as literature. Written in words of mostly one syllable, it has a story to tell, which is related in so attractive a manner as to immediately win the favor of young children. It teaches English and English literature to the child in the natural way: through a love for the reading matter. It is the character of story that will, in the not distant future, replace the ordinary primer or reader with detached sentences, and which seldom possesses any relation to literature.

The ultimate objects of any story can only be effected through the love for a story. The prominent point in this story is development of good character, which may well be regarded as the highest purpose of education. The transformation from bad to good traits in the dog and cat cannot but have a desirable effect on every child that reads the story. Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew become dissatisfied with their home and their surroundings, and ungrateful toward their benefactress. As the story tells, "They did not find good in any thing." But after running away and suffering hunger, neglect, and bad treatment, their characters begin to change. They naturally come to reflect their mistress's goodness. They learn the value of companionship and friendship, and the appreciation of a home. However, the ethical thoughts in the story are presented without a moral. The child really lives the scenes described. He has the emotions of the characters and feels their convictions. And this determines the worth of a story as an agent in character development.

The narrative furnishes, further, the proper kind of exercise for the imagination. It affords abundant opportunity for the play of the dramatic instinct in the child, and effects a happy union of the "home world" and the " school world." The illustrations, drawn by Miss Hodge, have been planned and executed with considerable care. J. C. S.

On the Edge of Winter(Colonial Historical Fiction)/Google Books

Title On the Edge of Winter
Author Richard Markham
Publisher Dodd, Mead, and Company, publishers, 1881
Length 236 pages
Click here.

Wherein may be read how Five Boys and Five Girls ate their Thanksgiving Dinner at an Old Farm House in the Hudson Highlands. The Book records further sundry of their Doings, and some Stories and Ballads of the Early Days of our Country.


Companion books:

Around the Yule Log

Aboard the Mavis

Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights/Google Books

Title Stories for Summer Days and Winter Nights
Publisher Groombridge and Sons, 1872
Click here.

Our Winter Birds[N.E. USA]: How to Know and How to Attract Them/Google Books

Title Our Winter Birds: How to Know and How to Attract Them
Author Frank Michler Chapman
Publisher D. Appleton and Company, 1918
Length 180 pages
Click here.

Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion(1357-1900)/Google Books

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
Click here.


More books on Chaucer:Chaucer Society Publications

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
Click here.

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
Click here.


"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."

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

Elementary School Month-by-Month Theme Ideas

Click on image to enlarge and save.

Our Little Canadian Cousin/Google Books

Title Our Little Canadian Cousin
Author Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
Published 1904
Click here.

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

About the Weather/Google Books

Title About the Weather
Author Mark Walrod Harrington
Publisher Appleton, 1899
Length 246 pages
Overview

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
Click here.

Fully illustrated and written in old English. The "S's are written as "F's".

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
Click here.

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
Click here

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
Click here


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."

Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic /Project Gutenberg

Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic by Olive Thorne Miller, 1906

Short stories for the very young.

Top-of-the-World Stories for Boys and Girls/Internet Archives

Poulsson, Emilie, and others, 1916
Click here.
Short stories and fables.

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
Click here

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
Click here.

Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa/Project Gutenberg

By Elphinstone Dayrell, 1910
Click here

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
Read here

Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children/Project Gutenberg

Copyright 1895
By Flora J. Cooke
Click here.

December Multi-grade Stories and Lessons/Google Books and Others

Seventh Grade December Ethics Lessons

Children's December Picture Study(Holy Family) (very short)

Children's 1916 Christmas Memory Gem(early elementary)

December Christmas Picture Study(long, pages 56-73): Corregio, Murillo, and others

Early Elementary Short Story: The Legend of Saint Christopher and the Christ Child

A Free Printable Christmas(Story of Christ) Unit Study 

The Princess's Pearls - a young spoiled girl learns the true meaning of Christmas.

Children's Christmas Cut and Pastes 

Poinsettia Study(elementary school)

Christmas Bells Poem

Children's Christmas Cut-out Bible Story

Christmas Themed Fifth and Sixth Grade Children's Literature/Google Books

Baldwin Online Christmas Stories(numerous)

Easy Star Lessons-December

Handbook of Nature Study: for Teachers and Pupils in Elementary Schools/December Birds in Northern States

A Second Reader: Designed to Teach Animated, Expressive, Oral Reading/December readings pages 67-86.

Sunday Morning in the Kindergarten, pages 142-153: Birth of Jesus, Story of the Shepherds, and The Wisemen.

Thanksgiving and Christmas Lessons - Early Elementary - Middle School

Thanksgiving and Christmas Lessons - High School.

Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day(The Pearl Story Book)

Elementary Geography, "Zones and Their Boundaries(December)"





With Mr.Pickwick at Christmas, eighth grade reader

Poulsson, Emilie: A Legend of Mercy (Top of the World Series). 

Miller, Mrs. H.: Christmas in a Baggage Car, Lottie's Christmas Tree (Kristy's Rainy Day Picnics). 

Christmas and New Year in Mexico, Metropolitan magazine, 1906


Las Posadas(Mexican Christmas festival), Boys' Life, 1974, readable online only - two page article with color photos.


The Christmas Tree, The Basket Woman: a Book of Fanciful Indian Tales for Children
By Mary Hunter Austin.

......more later.

All Google Books are linked in HTML, so pages may be printed, if desired. Simply right click of the image of the pages at the links, and save.

Twenty-Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls(short classics)/Project Gutenburg

Twenty-Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls, 1921.

Click here.

Includes authors such as: Hans Christian Andersen, Rev. Jay T. Stocking, Howard Pyle, and Joseph Jacobs.

(Month by Month)Nature Study in Elementary Schools: First Reader‎/Google Books

Title Nature Study in Elementary Schools: First Reader
Author Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson
Publisher Macmillan, 1899
Length 253 pages
Click here.

A Historical Reader for Schools/Google Books

Title A Historical Reader
Author Henry Elliot Shepherd
Publisher D. Appleton and Co., 1888
Overview

Interesting narratives touching upon American and European historical figures.

New Download Page at Google Books

Instead of having the button for the download in the upper right corner on the main page for each book, there is now a link to the Google Ebook reader. To download the books to PDF or view in Plain Text, click to any page within the book. The download button for PDF and the Plain Text view will be in the upper right hand corner on any page view.  Maybe this was just an oversight, and they will add a download button back to the main overview page.

The Boston Tea Party, December 1773(Illustrated Story)/Google Books

Title The Boston Tea Party, December 1773
Authors H. W. McVickar, Josephine Pollard
Publisher Dodd, Mead & company, 1882
Length 32 pages
Overview

Baby World Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks/Google Boooks

Title Baby World Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks
Author Mary Mapes Dodge
Published 1886
Overview

Written in syllabication for early readers.

The Mother of St. Nicholas: A Story of Duty and Peril/Google Books

Title The Mother of St. Nicholas: A Story of Duty and Peril(Christian inspirational fiction)
Author James Miller Grant
Publisher Poole, 1899
Length 91 pages
Overview

Studies in Reading: Seventh Grade/Google Books

Title Studies in Reading: Seventh Grade
Authors J. W. Searson, George Ellsworth Martin
Publisher University Publishing Co., 1914
Length 371 pages
Overview

Achievements of Celebrated Men/Google Books

Title Achievements of Celebrated Men
Author James Parton
Publisher J. B. Alden, 1883
Length 841 pages
Overview

Out and About: a Boy's Adventures, Written for Adventurous Boys/Google Books

To help and teach, to amuse, and to silently instill love and faith, boldness of heart, trust, and honesty in such boys, then—to do some little good to every reader—is the aim of this book. Each incident described is true; exaggeration and straining for effect have been kept quite out of our pages, and the dearest wish of the author is that the book may serve the purpose it was written for.

Title Out and About: a Boy's Adventures, Written for Adventurous Boys
Author James Hain Friswell
Illustrated by George Cruikshank
Publisher Groombridge and Sons, 1860
Length 326 pages

Biography for the Use of Schools/Google Books

Title Biography for the use of schools
Author Noah Webster
Publisher Printed by Hezekiah Howe, 1830
Length 214 pages
Overview

Table of Contents

Dickens' Christmas Stories for Children/Google Books

Title Dickens' Christmas stories for children
Author Charles Dickens
Editor Molly K. Bellew
Publisher H. M. Caldwell, 1902
Length 179 pages
Overview

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Free and online with enhanced search properties

Download here(plain text only), AKA: The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volumes 1-28.

Free Homeschooling Curriculum

A resource using the Robinson book list(Joyful Light Education). The books are all in public domain and available online; however this is a wonderful time saver. They have done the leg work and linked to each book. All but a few are available via this link list.

Also see their post on How to Organize a Free Curriculum.

Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities/Project Gutenberg

Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities
by Andrew Lang

The Narrative English Grammar/Google Books

Title The Narrative English Grammar: with Exercises and Questions Illustrated
Chamber's Educational Course
Author Robert Armstrong
Publisher W. & R. Chambers, 1884
Length 54 pages
Overview

Click on image to enlarge for preview/example lesson.

Lecture Style Online Textbook - History of Western Civilization/Other

Click here.

The Historical Novels Of Georg Ebers(Historical Fiction- Egypt )/Project Gutenberg

Georg Ebers (1837-1898), famous Egyptologist and novelist.

Download

Contents:

Uarda
Egyptian Princess
The Sisters
Joshua
Cleopatra
The Emperor
Homo Sum
Serapis
Arachne
Bride of the Nile
A Thorny Path
In Fire of the Forge
Margery
Barbara Blomberg
A Word, Only a Word
The Burgomaster's Wife
Complete Short Works
The Story of My Life

Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan/Google Books

Title Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
Author Richard Gordon Smith
Illustrated by Mo-No-Yuki
Publisher A. & C. Black, 1908
Length 360 pages
Overview

Stories of Ancient Peoples/Google Books

Title Stories of Ancient Peoples
Eclectic School Readings
Author Emma Josephine Arnold
Publisher American Book Company, 1901
Length 232 pages
Overview

Ancient History/Google Books

Title Ancient History
Author Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher Ginn, 1904
Length 639 pages
Overview

Masterpieces of the Great Artists, A.D. 1400-1700

Title Masterpieces of the Great Artists, A.D. 1400-1700
Author N. D'Anvers
Publisher G. Bell and sons, 1895
Length 85 pages
Overview

Greek Sculpture/Google Books

Title Greek Sculpture: A Collection of Sixteen Pictures of Greek Marbles, with Introduction and Interpretation
Riverside Art Series
Author Estelle May Hurll
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901
Length 97 pages
Overview

Real Things in Nature/Google Books

Title Real Things in Nature: A Reading Book of Science for American Boys and Girls
Author Edward Singleton Holden
Publisher Macmillan, 1903
Length 443 pages
Overview


"The topics are grouped under nine general heads: Astronomy, Physics, Meteorology, Chemistry, Geology, Zoology, Botany, The Human Body, and The Early History of Mankind. The various parts of the volume give the answers to the thousand and one questions continually arising in the minds of youths at an age when habits of thought for life are being formed."

November Multi-grade Short Stories, Poems, and Clip Art

Teachers Magazine, 1909(early - late elementary): Memory Gems for November

Early English Exploration with comprehension questions(older children)

Ways of Flowers 

Homes in Other Lands: Eskimos

The Pilgrims with a spelling and writing list
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Nature Stories, Winter is Coming

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The Transfiguration by Raphael, Art Study(middle school and up)

STORIES OF THE PILGRIMS

(School Classics)

Stories of the United States
By Anna C. Davis, 1896
The Pilgrims and the
First Thanksgiving Day—two chapters.
221pp.

Stories of Colonial Children
By Mara L. Pratt, 1894
3d—4th Grades. Chapters on Pilgrims, In-
dian Visitors and First Thanksgiving.
Illus. 223 pp.

When the Birds Go North Again — Higginson.
The Pumpkin. The Corn Song — J. G. Whittier.
Death of the Flowers. — Bryant.
A Day — Emily Dickinson.

Blackboard Lessons for
Thanksgiving
Maude M. Grant

The Pilgrims were good people.
They lived in England.
The Pilgrims liked to go to church.
Their king was not kind to them.
He would not let them go to their own church.
So they left England and went to Holland.
The Pilgrims lived in Holland.
They lived there for twelve years.
They saw the wind-mills.
The wind-mills grind the corn.
The wind-mills pump the water.
The Dutch people live in Holland.
The Dutch boys and girls wear wooden shoes.
The Dutch people were kind to the Pilgrims.
The Pilgrims did not wish to live in Holland always.
They wanted a land of their own.
So they sailed across the sea.
The name of their boat was the Mayflower.
It was not a large boat.
The great green waves tossed the Mayflower about.
The Pilgrims sailed a long time over the sea.
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
It was winter and very cold.
There were no houses.
The Pilgrims went into the woods.
They cut down trees and made log houses.
They made a church and a schoolhouse.
The Pilgrims met the Indians.
The Indians were kind to them.
They taught them how to hunt.
They taught them how to fish.
The Indians gave corn to the Pilgrims.
They showed them how to make corn bread.
The Pilgrims had to work very hard.
The winter was very long and cold.
The Pilgrims lived in log houses.
These houses were not warm.
Food was very scarce.
Sometimes the Pilgrims did not have enough to eat.
After awhile the Pilgrims did not have so hard a time. Their corn and vegetables grew and they had a fine harvest.
They caught wild turkeys in the woods.
Soon their barns were full.
They said, "Let us have a day of Thanksgiving.
Let us thank God for His blessings."
So they had the first Thanksgiving Day.

Poetry of the Seasons, A November Goodnight.

McGuffey Spellers/Project Gutenberg

Primer through grade 12. See An Old Fashioned Education for a grade-by-grade guide for these books.

Comprehensive History of Western Civilization through 16th Century

This site is a wonderful resource! See their time line from the founding of Rome in 753 BC through 1566 - the Ottomans conquer European territories in the Balkans. Links to free resources and online books are given from the time line. The free books are page scans of the books with no comprehensive downloads offered; however, if you use the Google Books Search on my side bar, you may find it in a download friendly form(PDF). Also try Gutenberg Books, also on my side bar, and a general Google search.

Some of these books have already been listed here, but I will attempt to add more of them here.

They offer fairly reasonably priced CD collections as well.

Economics in One Lesson/Other

Downloads for this classic economics book written by Henry Hazlitt, 1946 here.

Nature Study by Grades(One - Three)Teacher's Book/Google Books

Title Nature study by grades: teachers' book for primary grades, Volume 1
Author Horace Hall Cummings
Publisher American Book Co., 1908
Length 180 pages
Overview

I could not find the student's book, but this book could be used as both student and teacher's text.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

October Squirrels Multi-grade Stories

The Wide Awake Third Reader, The Baby Squirrels(science)

Elson Primary School Reader: Book 4, The Squirrels at Walden

St. Nicholas, Volume 12, Part 2, The War with the Little Red Skins

The Merrill Reader, First Grade, We Play with the Squirrels

Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children - Page 226

The Character Building Reader: Second Grade - Page 116

Fourth Year Language Reader

Teacher's Magazine, In Nutland and Nature Stories

Stanley and the Squirrels, Heath Second Grade Reader, 1903

The Squirrel's Pilgrim's Progress: a Book for Boys and Girls, 1915

Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers, 1900

Wild Animals at Home, 1913

Farm Friends and Farm Foes, 1910

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

Activities:

Squirrel lacing craft

Preschool squirrel cut and find

Squirrel paper doll

More soon...

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

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

War-time and Peace, the Role of the Carrier Pigeon/ Multi-Grade Selections

Read here.

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

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

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

Great Inventions and Discoveries/Google Books

Author Willis Duff Piercy
Publisher Charles E. Merrill company, 1911
Length 206 pages
Overview

Multi-grade Rain Poems and Short Stories

See here.