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Monday, February 25, 2008

American History Stories by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick


Google Books:
Volume I

Volume II

Volume III

Volume IV

Audiobook and link to the ebook at The Baldwin Project.
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Labels: Audiobooks, Elementary School Social Studies/History

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley/Google Books

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Audiobook and Project Gutenberg text here.
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Labels: Audiobooks, Elementary School Literature

Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children Adapted by James Baldwin/ Audio and Text

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Labels: Audiobooks, Elementary School Literature

Librivox: Source of Free Audiobooks

Librivox is an extensive library of free public domain audiobooks. Written summaries are included. Check the genres; there are many listed under the Children's genre which may match free online texts. A good number of the classics are available and the narration is very good. Click here. All recording as in public domain.
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Labels: Audiobooks, Reference

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Nursery Rhyme Music(MIDI) and Song Sheets

Click in title.
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Labels: Electives: Music

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Literature Guide by Subject and Grade Level

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Labels: Children's Literature, Early Elementary Literature, Elementary School Literature, High School Literature, Middle School Literature, Reference

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare: Shakespeare for Children/Baldwin Project, Audio-Internet Archive


The Baldwin Project has Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit free online(printable), as well as a reprint for sale. Kessinger publishers(see sidebar) has also reprinted this book.

The Internet Archive has a free audio version of this book. You can listen to it online, embed it on your site, or download it onto your computer or MP3 player.
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Labels: Audiobooks, Elementary School Literature

Friday, February 22, 2008

The New England Poets, A Study of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes/Google Books

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Labels: High School Literature, Middle School Literature

Introduction to Classical Latin Literature by William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.
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Introduction to Classical Greek Literature By William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.
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Introduction to the Study of American Literature by William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.
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Labels: Middle School And High School History

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Guide to Selecting Children's Literature/Google Books

The Children's Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott.
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Labels: Children's Literature, Early Elementary Literature, Elementary School Literature, High School Literature, Middle School Literature, Reference

The Wide Awake Third Reader/Google Books


Third grade illustrated geography reader featuring stories about children from around the world. Click here.
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Labels: Children's Readers, Elementary School Social Studies/History

Saturday, February 16, 2008

The Enchanted Past: True Stories of the Lands Where Civilization Began

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Labels: Middle School And High School History

The History of England for Catholic Children/Google Books

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A Book for the Children of God: Simple Catholic Teaching/Google Books


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Labels: Religion: Catholic

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Geometric(Geometry) Exercises in Paper Folding

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Labels: Middle School and High School Math

When Mother Lets Us Cut Out Pictures/Google Books


Very cute blacklines for children to cut, color and paste. Each picture has a didactic read-aloud. Some are quite simple, others are quite detailed like the intricate Scherenschnitte.

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Labels: Early Elementary Literature, Early Elementary Science, Electives: Art, Electives: Boy's Crafts, Electives: Girl's Crafts

Paper Sloyd(Paper Crafts): A Handbook for Primary Grades


Organized by grade. Picture is of first grade projects. Click here.
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Constructive Work: Its Relation to Number, Literature, History, and Nature Work

Interesting assortment of DIY crafts and projects. I couldn't find link to literature while browsing through this book. It looked like mostly science and math hands-on learning. Click here.
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  • Electives: Music (22)
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  • Preschool Literature (43)
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Sources Of Free Books

All books are in public domain, unless indicated.

Google Book Search books are printable if switched to plain text, or page by page by right clicking on image of page(HTML mode only). *Switch to HTML(bottom of main Google Books Menu page) . **Click on the download button at link(upper right on sidebar) to download entire text in PDF.

*(10/10)This has been disabled. Hopefully the HTML button will come back. Books listed here are still linked in HTML. I have been able to change the end of the web address by hand from Text to HTML.

**(12/10)Google Books removed the PDF download button on the overview "About" book pages! To access a download, click on any page of the book to find the PDF download button in the upper right corner.

Project Gutenberg books are downloadable, fully printable, and readable online in plain text and illustrated(HTML version - regular web page). See download tips.

Internet Archives indexes several free book resources, has an excellent search engine, fully printable books, and an online flip-book reader with an audio reader. Readable online as plain text or as HTML(like a regular web page).

Rosetta Project groups vintage illustrated children's books by reading level, easy to read format, and has an audio reader. Not in public domain per their format. Read only, books downloadable for small fee.

International Children's Library illustrated contemporary children's books for reading online only. Audio reader available. Not in public domain.

Christian Ethereal Classics Library downloadable Christian books, readable online in HTML(like a regular web page).

19th Century School Books A collection of 140 school books. Printing pages is allowed; however downloads of the entire book are by permission only.

Munseys Hundreds of free books released under the creative commons. Free to share by linking. Various downloads, pdf available.

Librivox Free Audiobooks

Bartleby.com Classic Books Online

Virtual Homeschool Library

Sources of Free Homeschool Curriculum Guides and Books

  • Easy Peasy All-in-One Homeschool
  • Lit2Go(Stories by Grade Level, Audio and Print)
  • Ambleside
  • Catholic Charlotte Mason
  • Baldwin Project: Classical, Waldorf, & Charlotte Mason
  • An Old Fashioned Education
  • Catholic Charlotte Mason

Free Homeschool Stuff

  • Happy Hearts At Home(my main blog)

Online Reading Tools

  • Free: Microsoft Office Word Viewer
  • Awesome Talkster/Converts online text into spoken words
  • Free: Adobe Reader
  • Free: Microsoft Text-to-Speech Package
  • Freeware: ebook Reader

Printing Tips

  • Happy Hearts Homeschooling Library Download, Viewing And Printing Tips
  • An Old Fashioned Education/Printing Tutorial

Search Tips

Nursery rhymes and illustrated fairy tale books are listed under Preschool in the Contents.

I've listed grades K-3 under Early Elementary in the Contents.

If you use the search box for grade level, search with the word "year" as well as "grade". Ex: Year five and fifth grade.

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