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

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

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

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

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

The Golden Rod Fairy Book(International Fairy Tales)/Google Books

Title: The Golden Rod Fairy Book
Editor: Esther Singleton
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903
Length: 342 pages
Overview

The Children's Picture-book of Useful Knowledge/Google Books

Title The Children's Picture-book of Useful Knowledge
Author Meredith Jones
Publisher Bell and Daldy, 1862
Length 260 pages
Overview

"Preface: In the 'Children's Bible Picture-Book', I told my little friends about God; how He made the world, with every living thing upon it, and sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to live, as a man, in it, that He might at last bring us to live with Him in heaven. In the Picture-Book of great and good men, I told them about men who had done great, or good, or useful deeds. I shall now tell them something about food, clothing, and shelter; for I sometimes hear children asking questions about these things, when there is no one at hand to answer them. Here they can read for themselves what they want to know, and when they have finished, they may, if they like, turn to the questions at the end of the book, and find out how much they remember of what they have read. For reading, without remembering, I must tell them, is of very little use."

Stories of Long Ago/Google Books

Stories of long ago, retold by Ascott R. Hope
Published 1881
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The Long Walls: an American Boy's Adventures in Greece/Google Books

The long walls: an American boy's adventures in Greece; a story of digging and discovery, temples and treasure
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, John Alden
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896
Length 328 pages
Overview

Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales/Google Books

Mighty Mikko: a book of Finnish fairy tales and folk tales
Author Parker Hoysted Fillmore
Publisher Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922
Length 314 pages
Overview

The Children's Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language/Google books

The children's book: a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language
Author Horace Elisha Scudder
Compiled by Horace Elisha Scudder
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin, 1907
Length 444 pages
Overview

Canterbury Chimes, or Chaucer Tales Retold for Children/Google Books

Canterbury chimes, or Chaucer tales retold for children
Authors Francis Storr, Hawes Turner, Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher Roberts, 1896
Overview

Printable Chaucer paper doll here.

Gulliver's Travels into Some Remote Countries/Google books

Gulliver's Travels rewritten for younger children.


Gulliver's travels into some remote countries
Authors Jonathan Swift, James Baldwin
Publisher American Book Co., 1908
Length 172 pages

Overview

Christmas in Legend and Story: a Book for Boys and Girls/Google Books

Christmas in legend and story: a book for boys and girls
Author Elva Sophronia Smith
Compiled by Elva Sophronia Smith, Alice Isabel Hazeltine
Publisher Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1915
Length 283 pages
Overview

Bold and Brave by Horatio Alger/Project Gutenburg

For about 4th through sixth grades. Click here.

From HoratioAlgerJr.com"

What does the Horatio Alger "Strive and Succeed" philosophy consist of? Are there contemporary versions of it?
There are several elements in the Horatio Alger "Strive and Succeed" Philosophy:


* hard work
* study (informal rather than formal)
* loyalty to superiors and subordinates
* abstaining from alcohol
* frugal living
* importance of dress and personal grooming
* personal integrity
* speaking and writing effectively
* non-credal religious values (Unitarian)
* avoidance of violence and revenge
* speaking the whole truth
* brotherhood of males (family without a mother)
* obligation to help and protect the weak and unfortunate
* duty to mother and/or sisters
* courtesy to all
* accepting the success of others
* emphasis on a secure home
* accept assistance of benefactors
* expectation of own success, acceptance
* eschew class hatred


The Alger success formula seems very like what one finds in _The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin_. Alger's code is less pragmatic and more altruitstic than Poor Richard's. Alger's code imposes significant personal obligations, but it is not at all individualistic. The Alger code does not seem to have much in common with those individuals labeled "Horatio Alger success stories."

Fanciful Tales by Frank Richard Stockton/Gooogle Books

Fanciful Tales
Authors Frank Richard Stockton, Julia Elizabeth Langworthy
Editor Julia Elizabeth Langworthy
Publisher C. Scribner's Sons, 1904
Length 135 pages

As recommended by Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics, 1904. Recommended for fourth grade, but great for read aloud for younger and older elementary aged children.

Kingsley's Greek Heroes/Project Gutenburg

Appropriate for fourth - fifth grades.

Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics/Google Books

A general study guide for fourth through eighth grade students.

Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics in the Grades of the Common School
Author Charles Alexander McMurry
Publisher Macmillan, 1904
Length 254 pages

Overview

Chapter Three is most useful followed by the list of books.

The Story of a Nodding Donkey/Google books

The story of a nodding donkey
Author Laura Lee Hope
Publisher Grosset & Dunlap, 1921
Length 120 pages

Overview

Roy and Ray in Canada/Google Books

Roy and Ray in Canada
Author Mary Wright Plummer
Publisher Holt, 1908
Length 395 pages

Overview

Down the Snow Stairs/Google Books

Down the snow stairs; or, From good-night to good-morning
Author Alice Corkran
Publisher Scribner and Welford, 1887
Length 257 pages

Overview here.

"On Christmas Eve, eight-year-old Kitty cannot sleep, knowing that her beloved little brother is critically ill due to her own disobedience. Traveling in a dream to Naughty Children Land, she meets many strange people, including Daddy Coax and Lady Love. Kitty longs to return to the Path of Obedience but can she resist the many temptations she faces? Will she nd her way home in time for Christmas? An imaginative and delightful read-aloud for the whole family!" from Salem Ridge Books.

Wonderful Tales from Denmark/Google Books

Wonderful tales from Denmark
Author Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher James Miller, 1864
Length 314 pages

Overview