reading literature the primer
- Author: harriette taylor treadwell
- Genre: Children's Books
Reading literature the primer was published in 1910 for the first time and since then it has been re-published many times as it gained a great popularity. The main goal of the book is to teach children to read and to love reading and literature. Also it would be useful for everyone who has children or works with them. The vocabulary of Reading literature the primer is quite easy and pretty small: it contains about 200 words. Such a method is aimed on children to read the adaptation of the stories, get interested in them and then read the real stories. The book includes nine most famous stories: The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Boy, The Old Woman and the Pig, The Boy and the Goat, The Pancake, Chicken Little, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Tuppens, and Little Spider’s First Web. It is also illustrated with black and white pictures which appeals to children.
the real lincoln
- Author: charles l c charles landon carter minor
- Genre: Americas
“The Real Lincoln” by Charles L.C. Minor is an attempt to refute the mistaken estimate of Abraham Lincoln with the help of solid references and all the witnesses, many of which include Lincoln’s former friends and associates, whose evidence is submitted. The book will be of a great use for those who want to know the whole truth that often is distorted or veiled. Minor presents a brief, though convincing disclosure of the sixteenth President of the United States. The author alleges that anyone, who reads this book, will understand what difference lies between the real Lincoln and what he pronounced to be.
teddys button
- Author: amy le feuvre
- Genre: Freedmen
This touching novel representing a chain of children's stories was published in the beginning of the previous century and unfolds the contemporary problems of the Victorian epoch. The book deals with serious religious questions, Christian values as they are seen by a child, trying to understand the world and give a meaning to it. A boy and a girl who are the main characters are learning the life and eventually they understand that they cannot reach their goals if they use force. They realize that only with the help of love life may get better and kinder. The problem, the book is dealing with, is the thought that everyone is his own greatest enemy with their own inner struggle themselves, their egoism and arrogance. In this fascinating story Amy LeFeuvre assists the children to see this inner battle taking place in their souls. Th author also rises the problem of relationship between children and their parents showing that they are not enemies and that the should stand together to overcome difficulties.
Topsy-Turvy Land
- Author: Zwemer Amy E.
- Genre: Children's Books
This book was written by a husband and a wife Samuel Marinus Zwemer and Amy E. Zwemer. They both were missionaries and travelers, with their interest focused on the Arabian countries. Samuel Zwemer often called The Apostle to Islam lived for quite a long time (1891-1905) at Busrah, Bahrein and in other places in the Middle East doing research there and missionary work as well. He also became a member of the Royal Geographical Society of London and on its behalf traveled to Asia. During the last years of his life he served as a professor of missions and the history of religion as the Princeton Theological Seminary. Samuel Zwemer is known as the author of many books devoted to the Arabs and Arabian countries. For instance, he was an editor of the famous publication The Moslem World. Also he encouraged many outstanding researches to travel to the Middle East as missionaries and study this region. His wife Amy Zwemer was an American missionary as well working in the Arabian countries where she met and married her co-worker. She created Two Young Arabs including The Travels of Noorah and Jameel and co-authored various books with her husband, among them we can name Topsy-Turvy Land (1902), and Moslem Women (1926).
the colonial clippers
- Author: basil lubbock
- Genre: Naval
This book is one of the print collection volumes of the Cornell University Library, and was first published and appeared in 1914. Owing to scan of the texts and Kirtas Technologies, which helped to convert the text to JPG 2000 format, one can find various marginal notes from the original edition on the pages of this volume. Written specially for the officers and seamen of Mercantile Marine the book contains materials and illustrations, rare old lithographs and sailing records which keep with care the memory of an important historical period.
uncle tom andy bill a story of bears and indian treasure
- Author: Major Charles
- Genre: Domestic fiction
“Uncle Tom Andy Bill: a story of bears and Indian treasure” was published in 1908 as a sequel to “The Bears of Blue River”, though told from completely different point of view. It’s a boyhood and romantic adventure story taking place during pioneer days in southern Indiana. Young Tom, the boys’ hero of the early 20th century, and Balser Brent come into a struggle with forces of nature and animals of Indiana; find themselves in dangerous situations, travelling far south in search of gold.
The author, Charles Major, an American lawyer and novelist, is best known for his novel “When Knighthood Was in Flower”.
the silence of god
- Author: robert anderson
- Genre: Socialism
The book written by Sir Robert Anderson who was a famous theologian is dealing with the question of the God's role in the life of the world and why He has been silent for two thousand years. The author studies the progress in the development of the religion and the place it took in people's lives. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IX IN Christ's grand and simple creed, expressed in His plainest words, eternal life was the assured inheritance of those who loved God with all their hearts, who loved their neighbours as themselves, and who walked purely, humbly, and beneficently while on earth. In the Christian sects and churches of today, in their recognised formularies and elaborate creeds, all this is repudi-ated as infantine and obsolete; the official means and purchase-money of salvation are altogether changed; eternal life is reserved for those, and for those only, who accept, or profess, a string of metaphysical propositions conceived in a scholastic brain and put into scholastic phraseology" To any one who aims at having clear thoughts and well-based beliefs nothing is more helpful than adverse criticism. Hence the value of the words here quoted. They may be taken, moreover, as expression of opinions of a large and important class by whom the writer, though no longer with us, may still be claimed as a champion and representative...
A Canyon Voyage
- Author: Dellenbaugh Frederick Samuel
- Genre: Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
This is a novel about the outstanding adventures which take place in the canyons of the Colorado River and is intended for everyone who is fond of the adventures in the West which are described with a good sense of humor, also containing a number of great original photographs. The author of the book has created it basing on his own experience. When Frederick Dellaenbaugh was young, he traveled with John Wesley Powell to the Colorado River with the aim of exploration and research. The crew sailed down the Colorado River to the Great canyon. The spirit of adventures seized the young man and he got carried away. And he decided to share his impressions with other people using his sense of humor in depiction of his adventures. At the same time there is a sense of sadness in the book every time we meet American Indians who had to move from their native territories further and further. The author says himself that when he looked into their sad eyes he understood their pain. It was not easy for those American Indians who decided to stay where they lived before to accommodate to the life with the white colonizers. Dellenbaugh managed to include so many aspects of humans' life and nature description in his book so that it is definitely worth reading.
Adventures of Reddy Fox
- Author: Burgess Thornton Waldo
- Genre: Juvenile fiction
Do you know of Old Mother West Wind? If yes, you will be delighted to meet with one of the characters of that great book for children. If no… well, it’s time to get acquainted!
Reddy Fox is a very self-confident foxy, you will definitely love him. One day he steals a hen from the farmer and his son together with Bowser the Hound decide to catch Reddy! Hot pursuit begins! Risky cute animal who seems to always get in trouble… you will share his adventures with great pleasure!
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
- Author: Eastman Charles Alexander
- Genre: Dakota Indians
How about novels about Indians? May be you read them under the blanket and imagined yourself to be the part of those adventure stories?
Now it’s time to get to know some of them better! In this book you will find biographies of 15 great Indians who left their traces in lives of many people, not only Indian tribes, but also white ones. You will not regret, these are not boring biographies, from the pages of this book real heroes will look at you.