FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34  
35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   >>   >|  
lla and Araminta Stories. Illustrated by Ethel Reed. Small. 1.00 Simple every-day happenings in the lives of little twin sisters, related with much of the repetition so pleasing to very young children. There are plenty of pictures. SMITH, GERTRUDE. The Roggie and Reggie Stories. Illustrated by M.H. Squire and E. Mars. Harper. 1.50 This companion to The Arabella and Araminta Stories tells in the same pleasant reiterative style of the doings of the little girls' little twin brothers. The illustrations are in color. _FIVE YEARS OF AGE_ (p. 32) _How am I to sing your praise, Happy chimney-corner days, Sitting safe in nursery nooks, Reading picture story-books?_ STEVENSON. GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND DESCRIPTION When the ice lets go the river, When the wild-geese come again, When the sugar-maple swells, When the maple swells its buds, Then the little blue birds come, Then my little Blue Bird came. _Indian lullaby from_ THE CHILDHOOD OF JI-SHIB THE OJIBWA. DEMING, T.O. Indian Child-Life. Illustrated by E.W. Deming. Stokes. 2.00 Pleasant sketches of the children of different tribes, with many full-page color plates after paintings in water-color, and black and white illustrations. The big oblong pictures, with their primitive Indian coloring, are unusually attractive. MYTHOLOGY, FOLK-LORE, LEGENDS, AND FAIRY TALES (p. 33) Jack, commonly called the giant-killer, and Thomas Thumb landed in England from the very same keels and war-ships which conveyed Hengist and Horsa, and Ebba the Saxon. SCOTT. BROOKE, L.L. (Illustrator). The Golden Goose Book. Warne. 2.00 Mr. Brooke has appropriately illustrated these old favorites: The Golden Goose, The Story of the Three Bears, The Story of the Three Little Pigs, and Tom Thumb. Of the four, the most popular is the tale of the adventures of little Tom, the favorite dwarf of the Court of King Arthur. "Long time he lived in jollity, Beloved of the Court, And none like Tom was so esteemed Amongst the better sort." LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE.
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34  
35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
Indian
 

Illustrated

 

Stories

 
illustrations
 

swells

 

pictures

 
Golden
 

Araminta

 

children

 
England

conveyed

 

landed

 

Hengist

 
called
 
Thomas
 

killer

 

LEGENDS

 

oblong

 
paintings
 

plates


primitive

 

coloring

 

unusually

 

attractive

 

MYTHOLOGY

 

commonly

 

Brooke

 

jollity

 

Beloved

 

Arthur


adventures

 

favorite

 
FONTAINE
 

esteemed

 

Amongst

 
tribes
 

appropriately

 

BROOKE

 

Illustrator

 

illustrated


popular

 

favorites

 
Little
 

OJIBWA

 

reiterative

 
doings
 

pleasant

 
companion
 
Arabella
 
brothers