The Box-Car Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner Gertrude Chandler Warner
	File Size: 417 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Box-Car Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner THE FLIGHT About seven o'clock one hot summer evening a strange family moved into the little village of Middlesex. Nobody knew where they came from, or who they were. But the neighbors soon made up their minds what they thought of the strangers, for the father was very drunk. He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him. Toward eight o'clock a pretty, capable-looking girl of twelve came out of the house and bought a loaf of bread at the baker's. And that was all the villagers learned about the newcomers that night. "There are four children," said the bakeshop woman to her husband the next day, "and their mother is dead. They must have some money, for the girl paid for the bread with a dollar bill." "Make them pay for everything they get," growled the baker, who was a hard man. "The father is nearly dead with drink now, and soon they will be only beggars." This happened sooner than he thought. The next day the oldest boy and girl came to ask the bakeshop woman to come over. Their father was dead. THE CONTENTS The Flight The Second Night Shelter A New Home Housekeeping Earning A Living At Home Building The Dam Cherry Picking The Race More Education Ginseng Trouble Caught A New Grandfather A United Family Safe
Chaucer for Children / A Golden Key by Mrs. H. R. Haweis : (full image Illustrated) Mrs. H. R. Haweis B00G5R6ZOC
	File Size: 1705     BUY NOW Book Description :- Chaucer for Children / A Golden Key by Mrs. H. R. Haweis : (full image Illustrated) children, kids, novel, fiction, action, POEMS, tales In revising Chaucer for Children for a New Edition, I have fully availed myself of the help and counsel of my numerous reviewers and correspondents, without weighting the book, which is really designed for children, with a number of new facts, and theories springing from the new facts, such as I have incorporated in my Book for older readers, Chaucer for Schools. Curious discoveries are still being made, and will continue to be, thanks to the labours of men like Mr. F. J. Furnivall, and many other able and industrious scholars, encouraged by the steadily increasing public interest in Chaucer. I must express my sincere thanks and gratification for the reception this book has met with from the press generally, and from many eminent critics in particular; and last, not least, from those to whom I devoted my pleasant toil, the children of England. M. E. HAWEIS. CHAUCER THE TALE-TELLER. Do you like hearing stories? I am going to tell you of some one who lived a very long time ago, and who was a very wise and good man, and who told more wonderful stories than I shall be able to tell you in this little book. But you shall hear some of them, if you will try and understand them, though they are written in a sort of English different from what you are accustomed to speak. But, in order that you really may understand the stories, I must first tell you something about the man who made them; and also why his language was not the same as yours, although it was English. His name was Chaucer?Geoffrey Chaucer. You must remember his name, for he was so great a man that he has been called the ?Father of English Poetry??that is, the beginner or inventor of all the poetry that belongs to our England; and when you are grown up, you will often hear of Chaucer and his works. CONTENTS FOREWORDS TO THE SECOND EDITION FOREWORDS CHAUCER THE TALE-TELLER CANTERBURY TALES: Chaucer?s Pilgrims Chaucer?s Prologue The Knight?s Tale The Friar?s Tale The Clerk?s Tale The Franklin?s Tale The Pardoner?s Tale MINOR POEMS: Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse Two Rondeaux Virelai Good Counsel of Chaucer
Games and Songs of American Children by Various Various B00KNJEEVE
	File Size: 1798 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- American, Children, Game-rhymes, May-games, Witch, GUESSING-GAMES, MYTHOLOGY EDITOR'S NOTE. The existence of any children's tradition in America, maintained independently of print, has hitherto been scarcely noticed. Yet it appears that, in this minor but curious branch of folk-lore, the vein in the United States is both richer and purer than that so far worked in Great Britain. These games supply material for the elucidation of a subject hitherto obscure: they exhibit the true relation of ancient English lore of this kind to that of the continent of Europe; while the amusements of youth in other languages are often illustrated by American custom, which compares favorably, in respect of compass and antiquity, with that of European countries. Of the two branches into which the lore of the nursery may be divided?the tradition of children and the tradition of nurses?the present collection includes only the former. It is devoted to formulas of play which children have preserved from generation to generation, without the intervention, often without the knowledge, of older minds. Were these?trifling as they often are?merely local and individual, they might be passed over with a smile; but being English and European, they form not the least curious chapter of the history of manners and customs. It has therefore been an essential part of the editor's object to exhibit their correspondences and history; but, unwilling to overcloud with cumbrous research that healthy and bright atmosphere which invests all that really belongs to childhood, he has thought it best to remand to an appendix the necessary references, retaining in the text only so much as may be reasonably supposed of interest to the readers in whom one or another page may awaken early memories. He has to express sincere thanks to the friends, in different parts of the country, whose kind assistance has rendered possible this volume, in which almost every one of the older states is represented; and he will be grateful for such further information as may tend to render the collection more accurate and complete. The melodies which accompany many of the games have been written from the recitation of children by S. Austen Pearce, Mus. Doc. Oxon. THE DIFFUSION AND ORIGIN OF AMERICAN GAME-RHYMES. "The hideous Thickets in this place[1] were such that Wolfes and Beares nurst up their young from the eyes of all beholders in those very places where the streets are full of Girles and Boys sporting up and downe, with a continued concourse of people."?"Wonder-working Providence in New England," 1654. "The first settlers came from England, and were of the middle rank, and chiefly Friends. * * * In early times weddings were held as festivals, probably in imitation of such a practice in England. Relations, friends, and neighbors were generally invited, sometimes to the amount of one or two hundred. * * * They frequently met again next day; and being mostly young people, and from under restraint, practised social plays and sports."?Watson's "Account of Buckingham and Solebury" (Pennsylvania; settled about 1682).
Little Peter / A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age by Lucas Malet : (full image Illustrated) Author: Lucas Malet, Illustrator: Paul Hardy B00KEW9ELU
	File Size: 1742 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- children, Christmas, Moral, kid, tales, fiction, Charcoal-burner WHICH DEALS WITH THE OPINIONS OF A CAT, AND THE SORROWS OF A CHARCOAL BURNER. The pine forest is a wonderful place. The pine-trees stand in ranks like the soldiers of some vast army, side by side, mile after mile, in companies and regiments and battalions, all clothed in a sober uniform of green and grey. But they are unlike soldiers in this, that they are of all ages and sizes; some so small that the rabbits easily jump over them in their play, and some so tall and stately that the fall of them is like the falling of a high tower. And the pine-trees are put to many different uses. They are made into masts for the gallant ships that sail out and away to distant ports across the great ocean. Others are sawn into planks, and used for the building of sheds; for the rafters and flooring, and clap-boards and woodwork of our houses; for railway-sleepers, and scaffoldings, and hoardings. Others are polished and fashioned into articles of furniture. Turpentine comes from them, which the artist uses with his colours, and the doctor in his medicines; which is used, too, in the cleaning of stuffs and in a hundred different ways. While the pine-cones, and broken branches and waste wood, make bright crackling fires by which to warm ourselves on a winter's day. But there is something more than just this I should like you to think about in connection with the pine forest; for it, like everything else that is fair and noble in nature, has a strange and precious secret of its own. You may learn the many uses of the trees in your school books, when men have cut them down or grubbed them up, or poked holes in their poor sides to let the turpentine run out. But you can only learn the secret of the forest itself by listening humbly and reverently for it to speak to you. For Nature is a very great lady, grander and more magnificent than all the queens who have lived in sumptuous palaces and reigned over famous kingdoms since the world began; and though she will be very kind and gracious to children who come and ask her questions modestly and prettily, and will show them the most lovely sights and tell them the most delicious fairy tales that ever were seen or heard, she makes very short work with conceited and impudent persons. She covers their eyes and stops their ears, so that they can never see her wonderful treasures or hear her charming stories, but live, all their lives long, shut up in the dark fusty cupboard of their own ignorance, and stupid self-love, and self-satisfaction, thinking they know all about everything as well as if they had made it themselves, when they do not really know anything at all. And because you and I dislike fusty cupboards, and because we want to know anything and everything that Nature is condescending enough to teach us, we will listen, to begin with, to what the pine forest has to tell. When the rough winds are up and at play, and the pine-trees shout and sing together in a mighty chorus, while the hoarse voice of them is like the roar of the sea upon a rocky coast, then you may learn the secret of the forest. It sings first of the winged seed; and then of the birth of the tiny tree; of sunrise and sunset, CONTENTS Which deals with the opinions of a Cat, and the sorrows of a Charcoal-burner Which introduces the Reader to an Admirer of the Ancient Romans Which improves our acquaintance with the Grasshopper-man Which leaves some at Home, and takes some to Church Which is both Social and Religious Which attempts to show why the Skies fall Which describes a pleasant Dinner Party, and an unpleasant Walk Which proves that even Philosophic Politicians may have to admit themselves in the wrong Which is very short because, in some ways, it is rather sad Which ends the Story ILLUSTRATIONS 'Remember my ears are so quick I can hear the grass grow' 'What will happen? please tell me' 'Go to bed when you are told' 'You all despise me' Going to Church Lost Waiting Found The Charcoal-burner visits Little Peter

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