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Famous Stories Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Stories of All Time for Young People
By Hamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1907
300 pages
Showing posts with label Middle School Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle School Literature. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
At the Back of the North Wind/Google Books
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At the Back of the North Wind
By George MacDonald, Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
Published by D. McKay, 1919
342 pages
Review:
"The book tells the story of a young country boy named Diamond. He is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. One night, as he is trying to sleep in the loft, Diamond plugs up several holes in the barn wall in order to stop the wind from blowing in. However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from going on her routes. Diamonds befriends her, and North Wind lets him ride on her back, taking him on several adventures.
Though North Wind does goods deeds and helps people, she is also does terrible things. In one of her mischievous acts, she sinks a ship. Yet everything bad leads to something good. North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good.
On their adventures, North Wind brings Diamond to the country she lives in; a country without pain and death.Yet, he is brought only in a shadow of the real country at the back of the North Wind. The real country is open for him only after his death. At the end of the book, Diamond dies, finally able to see the country.
In this book, MacDonald touches many theological and philosophical questions, especially concerning theodicy[A vindication of God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil.]. Today, it is considered one of his masterpieces."
Appropriate for later elementary and up. A good read aloud for younger children.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Tom, the Boater, A Tale of English Canal Life (Christian)/Google Books
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Wreck of the Golden Fleece: The Story of a North Sea Fisher-boy/Google Books
Friday, January 30, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic/Google Books
Monday, November 10, 2008
A-Z Literature & Authors
An organized website with free classic literature grouped by the origins of literature, themes, genres, and subjects. "Also, find out about periods and movements, as well as theory and criticism. Read about literature and authors from around the world." Click here.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legends, History, and Science/Google Books
A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legends, History, and Science
By Henry Wysham Lanier
Published by E.P. Dutton & company, 1922
316 pages
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By Henry Wysham Lanier
Published by E.P. Dutton & company, 1922
316 pages
Click here.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Legends That Every Child Should Know/Project Gutenberg
Plain text only. Click here.
Contents:
I. HIAWATHA From "Indian Myths." By Ellen Emerson.
II. BEOWULF From "A Book of Famous Myths and Legends."
III. CHILDE HORN From "A Book of Famous Myths and Legends."
IV. SIR GALAHAD Alfred Tennyson.
V. RUSTEM AND SOHRAB From "The Epic of Kings. Stories Retold from Firdusi." By Helen Zimmern.
VI. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS From "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." By Sabine Baring-Gould.
VII. GUY OF WARWICK From "Popular Romances of the Middle Ages." By George W. Cox, M. A. and Eustace Hinten Jones.
VIII. CHEVY CHASE From "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Edited by Francis James Child.
IX. THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR From "Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland." Arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory.
X. THE BELEAGUERED CITY From "Voices of the Night." By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
XI. PRESTER JOHN From "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." By Sabine Baring-Gould.
XII. THE WANDERING JEW From "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." By Sabine Baring-Gould.
XIII. KING ROBERT OF SICILY From "The Wayside Inn." By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
XIV. THE LIFE OF THE BEATO TORELLO DA POPPI From "Il Libro d'Oro of Those Whose Names are Written in the Lamb's Book of Life." Translated from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander. Originally written in Latin by Messer Torrelo of Casentino, Canonico of Fiesole, and put into Italian by Don Silvano.
XV. THE LORELEI From the German of Heinrich Heine.
XVI. THE PASSING OF ARTHUR From "Idylls of the King." By Alfred Tennyson.
XVII. RIP VAN WINKLE Washington Irving.
XVIII. THE GRAY CHAMPION From "Twice Told Tales." By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
XIX. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW Washington Irving.
Contents:
I. HIAWATHA From "Indian Myths." By Ellen Emerson.
II. BEOWULF From "A Book of Famous Myths and Legends."
III. CHILDE HORN From "A Book of Famous Myths and Legends."
IV. SIR GALAHAD Alfred Tennyson.
V. RUSTEM AND SOHRAB From "The Epic of Kings. Stories Retold from Firdusi." By Helen Zimmern.
VI. THE SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS From "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." By Sabine Baring-Gould.
VII. GUY OF WARWICK From "Popular Romances of the Middle Ages." By George W. Cox, M. A. and Eustace Hinten Jones.
VIII. CHEVY CHASE From "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Edited by Francis James Child.
IX. THE FATE OF THE CHILDREN OF LIR From "Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland." Arranged and put into English by Lady Gregory.
X. THE BELEAGUERED CITY From "Voices of the Night." By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
XI. PRESTER JOHN From "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." By Sabine Baring-Gould.
XII. THE WANDERING JEW From "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages." By Sabine Baring-Gould.
XIII. KING ROBERT OF SICILY From "The Wayside Inn." By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
XIV. THE LIFE OF THE BEATO TORELLO DA POPPI From "Il Libro d'Oro of Those Whose Names are Written in the Lamb's Book of Life." Translated from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander. Originally written in Latin by Messer Torrelo of Casentino, Canonico of Fiesole, and put into Italian by Don Silvano.
XV. THE LORELEI From the German of Heinrich Heine.
XVI. THE PASSING OF ARTHUR From "Idylls of the King." By Alfred Tennyson.
XVII. RIP VAN WINKLE Washington Irving.
XVIII. THE GRAY CHAMPION From "Twice Told Tales." By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
XIX. THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW Washington Irving.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Journeys Through Book Land with Teacher's Guide/Project Gutenberg
"Journeys Through Bookland is what the title signifies, a series of excursions into the field of the world’s greatest literature. Accordingly, the base of the work is laid in those great classics that, since first they found expression in words, have been the education and inspiration of man. But these excursions are taken hand-in-hand with a leader, whose province it is to explain, to interpret, to guide and to direct. Suiting his labors to the age and acquirement of the readers he helps them all, from the child halting in his early attempts to interpret the printed page to the high school or college student who wishes to master the innermost secrets of literature. In no small sense is this leadership a labor of love, for it follows an experience of twenty years of personal instruction in the public schools and among the teachers of the country." ~ The Guide
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Volume one was not available.
The handy supplementary book list
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Dutch/Holland/Netherlands Literature for Children
Dutch Lullaby, second grade poem.
Wide Awake Third Grade Reader, pages 20-25, two dutch tales.
Third grade lesson plan: Life in (old) Holland.
The Story of Dutch Paintings from the St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls
Social studies for early elementary: Holland
Beautifully illustrated easy reader(about third grade level): Windmills and Wooden Shoes.
Wooster Fourth Reader: Holland or Netherlands.
Third grade, Stepping Stones to Literature: A Boy Hero.
Fourth Grade Reader: Holland(2 parts)
Fifth grade reader: Skating in Holland
Educating by Story-telling: Wilhelmina's Wooden Shoes, about Rembrandt
Dutch diorama and story, early elementary school
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Guide to Selecting Children's Literature/Google Books
The Children's Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The Child's History of Jerusalem/Google Books
Appears to be a fourth grade reading level and up. Click here.
Monday, December 31, 2007
A Compilation of Children's Literature for Teachers/Google Books
A large compilation of children's literature sectioned off into categories, beginning with nursery rhymes and ending with Poetry. Edited with notes, introductions and bibliographies, published by Rand McNalley in 1921. Click here. Reading suggestions for each grade level are explained here in section 4.
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