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2009-12-18T10:01:00.004-05:00

Seven Pillars Book Nook is Moving and Remodeling

Grand Re-Opening is finally TODAY, Friday December 18th!

See my new Seven Pillars Book Nook blog here.

See my Grand Re-Opening and New Year Book Giveaway here
Book Giveaway is now closed..

2009-03-06T13:24:00.032-05:00

Winnie-the-Pooh Never Had His Books Made Illegal Or Taken Away

Ban - Amend CPSIA and Still Protect Children

Winnie-the-Pooh never had his books made illegal or taken away. In fact, all he could do for a week was listen to the Christopher Robin read books. He preferred honey for eating but he wanted his books and stories for nourishment which sustained him in another way during his time of "great tightness":

"....'A week!' said Pooh gloomily. 'What about meals?' . . . 'I'm afraid no meals,' said Christopher Robin . . . but we will read to you.' Pooh began to sigh, and then found he couldn't because he was so tightly stuck; and a tear rolled down his eye, as he said: 'Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?' So for a week Christopher Robin read that sort of book at the North end of Pooh...."

Pooh Goes Visiting, my c1961 copy of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

Now, more and more children are dealing with their own "great tightness" of inner, personal struggles from threats of and/or real monetary and job loss of their parents, for the day-to-day loss of needs, security and comforts in their family life. Not by their own design or fault they have become "wedged children in great, great, great tightness" as the threats and actual losses press in on them with great weight. Yet, our government has decided that another loss is necessary for the children so that they can be protected -- all pre-1985 books are hazardous for them, must be kept from them, and are illegal to sell because of possible harm from lead content. Books for the purpose of reading and learning instead of physically chewing or eating. Sequestering their favorite pre-1985 books means that the books will no longer be on the library shelves to borrow or found at a used resell book store to purchase. Many homeschool curriculum distributors will not have these books to supplement their curriculum and homeschool used book sellers will not be able to sell these books. Garage and rummage sales will be different with no books (and children's clothing & toys). Most of the small handmade businesses, crafts and clothes and toys were started precisely because of putting children and their safety first. Making all these products and books illegal to sell -- forbidding these books to children already in difficult situations takes away another comfort from them. When there has not been one child harmed by a book containing lead, how is this thinking of children's safety, security, well-being, and comfort?

BUT I have to admit, in our home, pre-1985 books ARE for chewing, eating, tasting, drinking -- we feast on them every day and some times it is quite a banquet. My personal collection of books began with books given to me by my grandfather when I was young, (this is one of them). My two daughters and I have continued to build our home library the past 18+ years so we are surrounded by books. Those of you who feast on books yourselves won't need an explanation but for anyone wondering what that means, there is a simple, clearly defined explanation* at the bottom of my post. Through the years we've read many, many books -- wonderful books that nourish us with echoes of enduring and eternal ideas far more grand than our own. These books of stories, histories, lore, fables and tales have come from the mind-hearts of other people and entered inside us to touch our own mind-hearts. We've been introduced to people we would never have known, so that we almost "know" them. We've been "stay-at-home travelers" and taken to places and times we've never been or ever will be able to go. Our storybooks and histories reflect our true selves; reveal our sins and imperfections, record our inability to measure up to the standard -- we fall far short -- not everything we’ve done has been noble. Reading and finding both examples allows for precious moments, precious discussions, through the years, all for molding my daughter's character, teaching them to be either loving or hateful.

And there's more sustaining "dainties" from "drinking ink" and "eating pages" of our books: the events of our own lives become a part of the big picture and we feel connected to our family and other people. As I grew up reading, I found stories reinforced some of the very values my own parents conveyed to me. I, in turn, passed them on to my daughters. One such example is that as humans we experience tragic, painful, uncertain situations, it's nothing new. The characters the stories come through it sharing a commonality of suffering - depending on one another and helping one another. AND, for our family, we found in some of our stories that even through these situations there still is The Someone who remains the same, has ultimate authority and wisdom; who governs all of life, sustains structure and order in the events of all life and is working in our behalf because He loves us, because we love Him and seek His mercy. Because of this, life can be lived at its best even though we are not perfect human beings and life is not perfect. There's something far bigger, far more grand than this good but temporary life. What security and safety and comfort can be known from reading nourishing books.

These "meals" of books have made us more aware we are important and do have a valuable part in the large "Story of Life" but in a way that governs and directs us out away from ourselves, away from self-absorption so we voluntarily wish to love and serve each other, our friends and neighbors. They also can show us the times when we are not as loving as we could be. Some of the crumbs under the table have been even more tasty, feeding the realization we don't have much original thought after all and that our greatest calling in life is to "...do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly..." -- in all areas of our lives, a continual day-by-day process, not having arrived -- all good lessons, echoed lessons, making us hungry for more, to be related to and used in real, day-to-day life with our family, friends, and neighbors. Stories that move our hearts to want to do right out of love instead of manipulating external behavior by guilt or mere duty.

All these wonderful "dainties" found in books dated before 1985 -- all these books which are now illegal for children 12 and under -- at a time when they could use these books most. They are going to be unavailable because of some unproven claim of harm from lead on pages -- all for children and their safety. Yes, there are other, newer books just as good but these older books are a part of us and our history too. Some can never be replaced once destroyed. These books are our precious gifts, to be read and enjoyed but will soon be lost forever unless this law is amended. This is about the books, yes, and small businesses, BUT it is as equally about the CHILDREN because of what children get out of and find within these books, what remains a part of them forever. Don't children need to meet these people, travel to these places, find encouragement and inspiration to be all they were created to be? These very books and stories are gifts to help them with all this. We adults need them too. I know I do. Children NEED these books and stories to be safe, secure, and protected. When will children be truly protected?

I love my two daughters. From the first day I held each of them in my arms, felt their breath on my cheek, and watched their tiny fingers wrap around my finger, I knew I would do all that is within my power to love them and protect them from harm. It was my desire to do so and something no one needed to tell me to do or how to do it. They were and still are my most precious gifts, unique and wonderful individuals, who have grown to be lovely young ladies. When they were young, I voluntarily decided which toys and items I allowed them to come in contact with or to keep from them if I thought unsafe. Most often it was the TINY easily broken toys and special items I didn't want broken. I most certainly never left them alone long enough to chew on items other than ones specifically designed for just that purpose. Now with more knowledge and awareness of toxic ingredients, I for one am certainly in agreement with protecting children from lead and phthalates. Even though my daughters are older and well beyond the "chewing stage", I think it is *my* responsibility to protect *my* daughters and would think myself negligent if I didn't. One of the things I did TO PROTECT them when they were young was to give them good books filled with all these wonderful ideas to help them and nourish their souls. I read good books to them, with them, talked with them about the *IDEAS* within the stories -- some of these very books that are now illegal, which occupy our home. We still read together, we still talk about the ideas, it's something we rarely miss -- my daughters and I are less protected and less safe if these books and ideas are destroyed. Not only because the stories won't be available to us but because our government is taking them from us and I never ask them to. I am putting children, my daughters first, I am protecting my daughters now by sharing and voicing my opinion to amend this horrible law.

If it seems this law can't possibly be used in a wrong way or preferentially to select a particular business, group or person, consider that it is *already* able to be used incorrectly by the field investigators because it's been stated it's not likely that thrift shops will be a priority for enforcing the law, which means it's OK for the investigators to randomly pick and choose other businesses and booksellers they will enforce it on:

"...an item-by-item enforcement at thrift shops is unlikely to be an enforcement priority any time soon for the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 100 field investigators..." Forbes: Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

So what will determine which cottage industries, which small businesses this pertains to? How will a small used book seller be sure his business won't be one of the priority businesses? How are children protected when these businesses will no longer have the material goods they need? How will parents protect and keep their children safe if they can't supply basic needs of their children that they had depended on the thrift and re-sell stores for? Why wasn't this law designated for products specifically for children ages six and under, or for that matter three and under, those most prone to putting things in their mouths? Why are the things children need most being taken from them and declared illegal?

DeputyHeadmistress of The Common Room has her say about the attempt to exploit actual children's deaths for the purpose of emotionally manipulating and marginalizing small business people, seamstresses, craftspeople, booksellers, and others opposed to the CPSIA.... Also see her current CPSIA Wednesday and an update on the sub-committees cancelling the meeting with Rick Woldenberg.

Tristan Benz writes about her concern of how this will destroy our connection to our past and also shares her five favorites destroyed by CPSIA.

More info: Children's Books In Dumpsters: Washington's Madness Continues, Dr. Suess Meets The CPSIA, For The Children?, Death Warrants For Thousands Of Companies, and here.

There's still time to contact our representatives to encourage them to amend this law, to make it better so it can truly protect children and be a law we are confident in and proud of.

Senator Jim DeMint introduced/sponsored his Senate version reform bill S.374 or here. See actual House version bill H.R.968 here or H.R. 968. Also more info here: United States Senator Jim DeMint.

The list of names below are the members on the House Committee - they are the people to contact to tell that this bill can be fixed, amended, and made better - links are to their online email or twitter:

Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV] Phone: 202.224.6472 Fax: 202.224.7665
Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX] Phone: 202.224.5922 Fax: 202.224.0776
Sen. Mark Begich [D-AK] Phone: 202.224.3004
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA] Phone: 202.224.3553 Fax: 202.228.1338
Twitter: Barbara_Boxer
Sen. Samuel Brownback [R-KS] Phone: 202.224.6521 Fax: 202.228.1265
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA] Phone: 202.224.3441 Fax: 202.228.0514
Sen. Byron Dorgan [D-ND] Phone: 202.224-2551 Fax: 202.224.1193
Sen. John Ensign [R-NV] Phone: 202.224-6244 Fax: 202.228.2193
Twitter: JohnEnsign
Sen. Daniel Inouye [D-HI] Phone: 202.224-3934 Fax: 202.224.3934
Sen. John Isakson [R-GA] Phone: 202.224.3643 Fax: 202.228.0724
Sen. Mike Johanns [R-NE] Phone: 202.224.4224 Fax: 202.228.0436
Sen. John Kerry [D-MA] Phone: 202.224.2742 Fax: 202.224.8525
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN] Phone: 202.224.3244 Fax: 202.228.2186
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ] Phone: 202.224-3224 Fax: 202.228.4054
Sen. Mel Martinez [R-FL] Phone: 202.224.3041 Fax: 202.228.5171
Twitter: MelMartinez
Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO] Phone: 202.224.6154 Fax: 202.228.6326
Twitter: clairecmc
Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL] Phone: 202.224.5274 Fax: 202.228.2183
Sen. Mark Pryor [D-AR] Phone: 202.224.2353 Fax: 202.228.0908
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME] Phone: 202.224.5344 Fax: 202.224.1946
Sen. John Thune [R-SD] Phone: 202.224.2321 Fax: 202.228.5429
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM] Phone: 202.224.6621 Fax:
Twitter: tomudall
Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA] Phone: 202.224.2023 Fax:202.224.6295
Twitter: MarkWarner

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This is one of my favorite books, A Cow in the House by Mabel Watts, illustrated by Katherine Evans, copyright 1956 Follett Publishing Company -- a short, simple story of a farmer and his wife who became uncomfortable in their small house and how they were able to make it large enough to their satisfaction and contentment. Farmer went to Grandpa Wiseman for help and advice and found an interesting solution to the problem. I won't tell the solution to their problem. I hope you can get the book and read it yourself. *IF* you still can, I don't know.

I've shared more of our favorite illegal to sell pre-1985 books (amend the CPSIA) here and here.

"Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties

that are bred in a book;

he hath not eat paper, as it were;

he hath not drunk ink;

his intellect is not replenished."

~William Shakespeare~

(*explanation: of course we don't physically or literally eat or chew on books or drink ink but have done so only internally, in our mind-hearts.)

2009-02-28T13:47:00.022-05:00

Behemoth.com - Audio Download Books

"...a brand-new website offering cost-effective trustworthy, downloadable audio and video content for the Christian family...the smartest websites and business ventures to have been launched in the last year--maybe in the last five or ten years. If you are looking for high-quality and affordable downloadable media including music, feature films, audio dramas, sermons, and more..."

Many, many good titles to choose from. I purchased two other audio books: the You Are There! World History Collection of Old Time Radio Shows by Joshua Phillips and one from the Landmark history series The Magna Charta by Newbery Award-winning author James Daugherty.

2009-02-17T00:17:00.013-05:00

It's Illegal To Sell My Favorite Childhood Book Thanks to the CPSIA

See more of my posts about the CPSIA here at: Winnie-the-Pooh Never Had His Books Made Illegal or Taken Away

Lo and Behold, A Cape Cod Mystery by Myna Lockwood is one of my favorite childhood books. It's one of the books that help start me on my way to collecting copies of my favorite books and eventually starting my home library. I always watch for copies of this book. This one had a dusk jacket which my other copies lacked so when I found it at an online used book seller's store, I was thrilled. I purchased it last week and received it the mail yesterday, America's book burning day, February 10, 2009. Now, I'm so glad I ordered it when I did! I may not be able to do this much longer -- it's really illegal right now -- which means I may not be able to purchase books such as this one in the future. It's a book for a child under the age of twelve, copyright in 1945, waaaayyyy before 1985 and is for the purpose of actually reading and according to the new CPSIA law these books are illegal unless tested for lead content. None of the older, out-of-print books from our Seven Pillars Book Nook home library list of "Favorite Picture Story Books" or my "Wanted List" may be legal for selling, swapping, bartering or giving as gifts to children 12 and under. I'm not sure I will be able to do much more with acquiring other titles on my "Wanted List" **if** the books won't be available any longer at used books stores or any other places I've purchased them in the past. :(

I posted earlier at my other blog about the CPSIA here and here which has to do with child safety. Children's books are just one of the items affected by our wonderful new child safety law. Testing for lead is most definitely a good thing and necessary. If ever there was a mom for child safety it is me, as my daughters will testify to. I think it is my responsibility to do all within my power to keep my children safe. It's **NOT** the government's job. I voluntarily refused to purchase specific toys and products that I thought unsafe for my daughters as they were growing up. I most certainly never left them alone long enough to chew through an entire book. Instead, I preferred to explain and teach them that books were not for chewing, throwing, stepping on, banging with, drawing on, etc., and then showed them how to carefully hold them. Most important, they knew books were for reading. (Do our representatives **READ** bills any more??!!??) I'm all for getting lead out of products and keeping our children safe but what are the products with the most lead found in them? Where do they come from? Why are they rewarded with a pass?

I am so sick and sad right now, more depressed really. The law went into effect just yesterday, outlawing all children's books for age 12 and under, copyrighted before 1985. They can no longer be sold or bartered or given away unless they have been tested. Some thrift stores are no longer selling them, they're removing them from their shelves and putting the books in the dumpsters as trash. This summer I will not be able to put these books (or other toys and children items) in a garage sale either.

The general public is mostly unaware of this law. I wasn't aware of it until only last month. Our representatives themselves are not fully aware of what they have done by making this law. They were unaware that it would have anything to do with books. How well did they think through this bill??!!?? Its been stated that:

"...an item-by-item enforcement at thrift shops is unlikely to be an enforcement priority any time soon for the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 100 field investigators..." Forbes: Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

It's not likely an enforcement priority any time soon!!!! Even though this isn't a well-thought out law nor a good one as it is now, what, pray tell, does that say for the respect of the law??!!?? What will prevent it from becoming misused for preferentially targeting a particular group or person? Since there aren't clearly defined guidelines as to what exactly is an "ordinary" book and what exactly is a "collectible" book AND what is exactly enforceable, who knows "What will be enforced?". Will anyone want to risk selling or trading these books??!!??

Read about the Jacobsen Books family business, in a blog interview with Valerie Jacobsen & her "Living Books" here from Breaking Bookselling News BookThink.com. More of her comments here: I wasn't thrilled with the exception... and We own a small, local used bookstore...

Not being able to sell books is one horrible thing that makes me so very sad, for all those used book businesses and families. Even for myself and family, as I won't be able to pass on duplicate older children books to other like-minded families as I once did at our Seven Pillars Book Nook. Disrespect for law saddens me and disturbs me. I'm also saddened and sickened that more of my parental rights are deemed the government's responsibility. Along with the physical books being considered hazardous and banned, I'm very grieved that all my children's cultural heritage found in these wonderful books is being destroyed. Now, the government is banning, destroying children's books, all for good reason and in the guise of protecting children. Where have I heard of this before? I am heartsick.

Read the CPSC's guide to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) for Small Businesses, Resellers, Crafters, and Charities. A bit more defined but still uncertain.

Small businesses in very state are being affected by this yet we're supposed to be stimulating our economy and getting it back on track???!!!!

The Common Room has this information:

Books Destroyed
Congressional Scofflaws
Taking A Break
My Local Thrift Shop
CPSIA Roundup
There's a Difference Between a Policy and a Law

Plus, more here - CPSIA and Vintage Books:

"As readers are aware, the Consumer Product Safety Commission yesterday advised thrift stores and other resellers and distributors of used goods to discard (unless they wished to test for lead or take other typically unpractical steps such as contacting manufacturers) children’s books printed before 1985 and a very wide range of other children’s products, including apparel and playthings...." Overlawyered

If you're not too sick, read Killing American Industry One Cottage At A Time.

I'm wondering where the media coverage is about all this....

As I mentioned, I have shared our favorite books here at our "Favorite Picture Story Books" and my "Wanted List". I made links here to specific lists of some of our favorites to get to them easier:

What is a ___? by Benefic Press

How They Lived.... by Garrard Publishing

Real People Biographies by Row Peterson & Company

The Buildings of.... by Helen and Richard Leacroft

The Young.... by Roy Publishers

and a few of our favorite authors:

Frank North Shankland

Mary Chubb

Olive Earle

The Children's Hour 10 Volume Set by Eva March Tappan

The Children's Hour by Henry Wadworth Longfellow from the above set

Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers by John Burroughs and Friends of the Forest by Frank North Shankland

The Apple Dumpling from The Story-Teller by Maud Lindsay

Lo and Behold!, A Cape Cod Mystery by Myna Lockwood

Millet Tilled the Soil by Sybil Deucher and Opal Wheeler

Time Was by Hildegard Woodward

....all of these books may **NOT** be available to purchase or read or own. They're not illegal to own or read but they **ARE ILLEGAL** for children 12 and under.

DeputyHeadmistress of the The Common Room started sharing wonderful books from her home library that are now illegal to sell (not own) and even more here at The CPSIA Could lead to a paucity of language -- which motivated me to share some of our own favorite books. Thank you for sharing your books DeputyHeadmistress! Love2Learn has her own "Illegal Books".

Hopefully, some thing can be done to keep all these books from being destroyed and small businesses from closing their doors.

Right now, there are two bills being introduced to amend the current CPSIA law.

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and Congressman John Shadegg are currently introducing/sponsoring an amendment which in the House here: bill H.R. 968 -- Senator Jim DeMint has introduced/sponsored an amendment which in the Senate bill: S.374 at Senator Jim DeMint's site here: United States Senator Jim DeMint

Follow the bill here: H.R. 968

Valerie of Jacobsen Books and her The Bookroom blog has UPDATED RESEARCED ACCURATE INFO FROM CPSC PRESS RELEASES HERE, the following info below and contact numbers at Make Some Calls:

It shouldn’t take too much time to make a few calls. I was only on hold for more than 30 seconds at the White House.

CHANGE THAT! Flood them with calls. “The more calls, the more influence.”

Senate Commerce Committee 202-224-5115
Majority–202-224-0411
Minority–202-224-1251
(Becky Hooks takes care of this for the minority.)

Commerce committee members are listed at members http://commerce.senate.gov/members.htm

Call those senators!

House Commerce Committee (202) 225-2927

Commerce committee members are listed at Commerce
http://energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Click on “About the Committee” and then click on the “Membership” tab.

Call those representatives.

You can also call–
White House Comment Line 202-456-6213
Your State Senators (both)
Your Representative
Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy 202-205-6533
CPSIA Sponsor Henry Waxman 202-225-3976 or 323-651-1040
CPSIA Sponsor Bobby Rush 202-225-4372 or 773-224-6500
CPSC Small Business Ombudsman 888-531-9070 or sbo@cpsc.gov
Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship 202-224-5175
House Small Business 202-225-4038
House Committee Education & Labor 202-225-3725 (think: schools and libraries)

If it seems this law can't possibly be used in a wrong way or preferentially to select a particular business, group or person, consider that it is *already* able to be used incorrectly by the field investigators because it's been stated it's not likely that thrift shops will be a priority for enforcing the law, which means it's OK for the investigators to randomly pick and choose other businesses/books they will enforce it on:

"...an item-by-item enforcement at thrift shops is unlikely to be an enforcement priority any time soon for the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 100 field investigators..." Forbes: Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

So what will determine which cottage industries, which small businesses this pertains to? How will a small used book seller be sure his business won't be one of the priority businesses?

This bill **IS** a problem for cottage industries and Valerie comments with correct information to the HSLDA (Home School Legal Defense Association) erroneous statements on this issue at her: No Problem for Cottage Industries?

Here's the list of the members on the House Committee where H.R. 968 is now. They are the people to contact to tell that this bill can be fixed and made better:

Sen. John Rockefeller [D-WV]
Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX]
Sen. Mark Begich [D-AK]
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]
Sen. Samuel Brownback [R-KS]
Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]
Sen. Byron Dorgan [D-ND]
Sen. John Ensign [R-NV]
Sen. Daniel Inouye [D-HI]
Sen. John Isakson [R-GA]
Sen. Mike Johanns [R-NE]
Sen. John Kerry [D-MA]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ]
Sen. Mel Martinez [R-FL]
Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
Sen. Mark Pryor [D-AR].
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R-ME]
Sen. John Thune [R-SD]
Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA]

There's time to call and ask for support of the amendment which will be an improvement for making this a better law, protect children AND prevent small businesses and childrens books from being destroyed.

See more of our favorite books which are now illegal to sell here.

2009-01-19T22:42:00.006-05:00

"Every Good Book" A Great Resource for Homeschoolers

I love to read so I'm always interested in resources about books and reading. Last week, Why Homeschool hosted the first Carnival of Homeschooling of the New Year: Week 158 The Third Anniversary and reading through the Carnival I found a particular resource of special interest to me.

It's data bank of 700+ cataloged books (with more to come) designed with a search so I'll be to find books for my lesson plans and our reading. Mark, of Every Good Path, and his daughter, Grace, of Sing me to Heaven, have been working on their online catalog Every Good Book.

From the front page:

The reader's dilemma - so many great books to read! As a book-loving homeschool family, we've collected dozens of reading lists over the years, literally thousands of recommendations. We used these to find great books for a certain reading level, historical period, or type such as fiction, biography, etc. We found some books on almost everyone's "Classics" list, and many more on multiple lists, giving us a sense of each book's importance. We'd look online to find which were in-print and affordable, and so on... A rewarding, yet difficult process of categorizing, prioritizing, searching - just the things a website can do so well.

EveryGoodBook finds just the right book - new or old for homeschool, classical education, and personal enrichment. Search and sort through hundreds of possible books according to any combination of reading level, type, historical period, or rank...

I know this will be very useful and I look forward to the new books as they are listed.

2008-12-14T10:02:00.020-05:00

Series: Messner - Julian Messner, INC., New York

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

Julian Messner - This publishing company is not as well known as other children's history series. They were first published it the 1940's & 1950's and reprinted in various editions in the 1960's. The list of biographies is large, covering people of history who are sometimes not mentioned often. Excellent reading for approx. ages 10 & up, grades 6 & up. My daughter prefers these over Landmarks.

This book is titled Ralph J. Bunche, Fighter For Peace by J. Alvin Kugelmass, c1963 Julian Messner Inc. -- cloth cover has the "JM" logo on the front.

This is the title page of the book pictured above -- look for the black circle with "J M", and also look for "Julian Messner, Inc." on the bottom of the title page. One other place you might find it is on the back cover and it will say "Certified Messner Edition". You'll find these in various edition with different covers: plain cloth, pictorial, and library rebound.

Abe Lincoln's Other Mother, The Story of Sarah B. Lincoln - Bailey, Bernadine
Abraham Lincoln - Nolan, Jeannette Covert
Admiral Byrd of Antarctica - Gladych, Michael
African Firebrand, Kenyatta of Kenya - Archer, Jules
Albert Einstein - Bradbury, Pamela Zanin
Alice Fitzgerald, Nurse Around the World - Noble, Iris
Amelia Earhart , Heroine of the Skies - Garst, Shannon
America's First Trained Nurse, Linda Richards - Baker, Rachel
America's First Woman Astronomer, Maria Mitchell - Baker, Rachel and Merlen, Joanna B.
America's First Woman Chemist, Ellen Richards - Douty, Esther M.
Andrew Jackson - Nolan, Jeannette C.
Angel of Appalachia, Martha Berry - Myers, Elisabeth P.
Angel of Mercy, The Story of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Baker, Rachel
Angry Abolitionist, The Story of William Lloyd Garrison - Archer, Jules
Annie Oakley - Garst, Shannon

Behind the Silken Curtain, The Story of Townsend Harris - Levine, I. E.
Belle Boyd, Secret Agent - Nolan, Jeannette C.
Benedict Arnold, Traitor to His Country - Nolan, Jeanettte C.
Big Foot Wallace of the Texas Rangers - Garst, Shannon
Black Women of Valor - Burt, Olive W.
Booker T. Washington , Educator of Hand, Head and Heart - Graham, Shirley
Bret Harte of the Old West - Harlow, Alvin Fay
Brigham Young - Burt, Olive W.
Broken Hand Fitzpatrick, Greatest of Mountain Men - Garst, Shannon
Buffalo Bill - Garst, Shannon
Cameras and Courage, Margaret Bourke White - Noble, Iris \
Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Manager - Schoor, Gene
Chaim Weizmann, Builder of a Nation - Baker, Rachel
Champion of World Peace, Dag Hammarskjold - Levine, I. E.
Charlemagne - Komroff, Manuel
Christy Mathewson: Baseball's Greatest Pitcher - Schoor, Gene
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces - Garst, Shannon
Clarence Darrow Defense Attorney - Noble, Iris
Cochise, Great Apache Chief - Johnson, Enid
Commander of the Flying Tigers, Claire Chennault - Archibald, Joe
Conquerer of Small Pox, Dr. Edward Jenner - Levine, I.E.
Contemporary Woman Scientists of America - Noble, Iris
Copernicus - Thomas, Henry
Courage in Her Hands - Noble, Iris
Courage of Doctor Lister (The) - Noble, Iris
Cowboy Artist, Charles M. Russell - Garst, Shannon
Curtain Going Up, The Story of Katharine Cornell - Malvern, Gladys
Custer, Fighter of the Plains - Garst, Shannon
Dancing Star, The Story of Anna Pavlova - Malvern, Gladys
Dick Wootton, Trailblazer of Raton Pass - Garst, Shannon
Disaster 1906, The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - Dolan, Jr., Edward F.
Discoverer of Insulin, Dr. Frederick G. Banting (The) - Levine, I.E.
Disraeli - Komroff, Manuel
Doctor who Dared ,William Osler (The) - Noble, Iris
Dolley Madison - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Douglas MacArthur, Front-line General - Archer, Jules
Dr. George Washington Carver, Scientist - Graham, Shirley & Lipscomb, George D.
Dr. Morton, Pioneer in the Use of Ether - Baker, Rachel
Edith Cavell, Heroic Nurse - Elkon, Juliette
Edna St. Vincent Millay, America's Best Loved Poet - Shafter, Toby
Egypt's Queen - Nobel, Iris
Electrical Genius, Nikola Tesla - Beckhard , Arthur J.
Electronics Pioneer, Lee DeForest - Levine, I.E.
Emmeline and Her Daughters: The Pankhurst Suffragettes - Noble, Iris
Empress of all Russia, Catherine the Great - Noble, Iris
Ernest Thompson Seton , Naturalist - Garst, Shannon and Warren
Father Junipero Serra - Bolton, Ivy
Fighter for Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Apsler, Alfred
Fighting Journalist: Horace Greeley -
First Woman Ambulance Surgeon, Emily Barringer (The) - Noble, Iris
First Woman Doctor, The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. (The) - Baker, Rachel
First Woman Editor, Sarah J. Hale - Burt, Olive
Florence Nightingale - Nolan, Jeannette Covert
Francis Marion, Swamp Fox of the Revolution - Williams, Beryl & Epstein, Samuel
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of Destiny - Weingast, David E.
Frederick Law Olmstead, Park Designer - Noble, Iris
Frontier Hero: Simon Kenton - Garst, Shannon
Frontier Nurse, Mary Breckinridge - Wilkie, Katherine E. & Moseley, Elizabeth R.
Galileo, First Observer of Marvellous Things - Levinger, Elma Ehrlich
Gay Poet, the Story of Eugene Field (The ) - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Gene Rhodes, Cowboy - Day, B. F.
George Patton , General in Spurs - Hatch, Alden
George Rogers Clark, Soldier & Hero - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Ghost Towns of the West - Burt, Olive W.
Glenn Curtiss, Pioneer of Naval Aviation - Hatch, Alden
Goethals and the Panama Canal - Fast, Howard
Great Houdini , Magician Extraordinary - Williams, Beryl & Epstein, Samuel
Great Lady of the Theatre, Sarah Bernhardt - Noble, Iris
Harry S. Truman, the Man from Independence - Farley, Karin Clafford
Haym Solomon, Son of Liberty - Fast, Howard
He Freed the Minds of Men, Rene Descartes - Hoyt, Edwin P.
He Heard America Sing, The Story of Stephen Foster - Purdy, Claire Lee
Henry Ford - Caldwell, Cy
Honor of Balboa (The) - Noble, Iris
Hoosier City, The Story of Indianapolis - Nolan, Jeannette C.
Indestructible Commodore Matthew Perry (The) - Orrmont, Arthur
Interpol, International Crime Fighter - Noble, Iris
Inventive Wizard, George Westinghouse - Levine, I.E.
Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck - Apsler, Alfred
Isaac Newton - Sootin, Henry
Israel's Golda Meir, Pioneer to Prime Minister - Noble, Iris
Jack Dempsey Story (The) - Schoor, Gene
Jack London, Magnet for Adventure - Garst, Shannon
James Fenimore Cooper - Proudfit, Isabel
James Whitcomb Riley, Hoosier Poet - Nolan, Jeannette C.
Jedediah Smith, Fur Trapper of the Old West - Burt, Olive W.
Jim Thorpe Story: America's Greatest Athlete (The) - Schoor, Gene
Joe Magarac and His U. S. A. Citizen Papers -Shapiro, Irwin
Joe Meek, Man of the West - Garst, Shannon
John Brown - Nolan, Jeannette C.
John Charles Fremont, Trail Marker of the Old West - Burt, Olive
John Henry and the Double-Jointed Steam Drill - Shapiro, Irwin
Joseph Pulitzer Front Page Pioneer - Noble, Iris
Julius Caesar - Komroff, Manuel
Kit Carson, Trailblazer and Scout - Garst,Shannon
Labor's Advocate Eugene V. Debs - Noble, Iris
Land Divided The World United, The Story of the Panama Canal (The ) - Rink, Paul
LaSalle and the Grand Enterprise - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Lenin, The Man Who Made A Revolution - Levine, I. E.
Leo Durocher Story (The) - Schoor, Gene
Lillian Wald, Angel of Henry Street - Epstein, Beryl
Little Giant, Stephen A. Douglas (The ) - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Louis Braille, Windows for the Blind - Kugelmass, J. Alvin
Louis Pasteur - Wood, L. N.
Luther Burbank, Plant Magician - Beaty, John Y.
Mahmud's Story, the Journal of a Palestinian Refugee - Noble, Iris
Man of Steel, Joseph Stalin - Archer, Jules
Many Faces of Slavery (The) - Levine, I. E.
Many Worlds of Herbert Hoover (The) - Terzian, James P.
Marco Polo - Komroff, Manuel
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Pioneers of Oregon - Daugherty, James
Marie Antoinette - Komroff, Mauel & Komroff, Odette
Master Detective, Allan Pinkerton - Orrmont, Arthur
Master Surgeon, John Hunter - Noble, Iris
Medicine from Microbes, The Story of Antibiotics - Williams, Beryl & Epstein, Samuel
Mendeleyev & His Periodic Table - Mc Kowan, Robin
Miracle Man of Printing, Ottmar Mergenthaler - Levine, I.E.
Napoleon - Komroff, Manuel
Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal
Negroes in the Early West - Burt, Olive W.
Nellie Bly First Woman Reporter - Noble, Iris
Noah Webster, Father of the Dictionary - Proudfit, Isabel
Nurse Around the World, Alice Fitzgerald - Noble, Iris
O. Henry, The Story of William Sydney Porter - Nolan, Jeannette C.
Oliver Cromwell - Levine, I.E.
Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World - Graham, Shirley
Pee Wee Reese Story (The) - Schoor, Gene
Physician to the Children, Dr. Bela Schick - Noble, Iris
Physician to the World, Esther Pohl Lovejoy - Burt, Olive W.
Pioneer Oceanographer, Alexander Agassiz - Williams, Beryl & Epstein, Samuel
Pioneer Surgeon, Dr. Ephraim McDowell - Rich, Josephine
Plant Explorer, David Fairchild - Beryl Williams and Samuel Epstein
Ralph Bunche, Fighter for Peace - Kugelmass , J.
Red Grange: Football's Greatest Halfback - Schoor, Gene
Rivals in Parliament: William Pitt and Charles Fox - Noble, Iris
River-Boy: The Story of Mark Twain - Proudfit, Isabel
Roald Amundsen, A Saga of the Polar Seas - Kugelmass, J. Alvin
Robert E. Lee - Emery, Guy
Rocket Pioneers on the Road to Space - Williams, Beryl & Epstein, Samuel
Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys - Rasky, Frank
Rudyard Kipling, Son of Empire - Braddy, Nella
Sam Houston, Lone Star Leader - Bishop, Curtis
Scotty Allen, King of the Dog Team Drivers - Garst, Shannon
She Lived for Science, Irene Joliot-Curie - McKown, Robin
Shot Heard Round the World, the Story of Lexington and Concord (The) - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Sigmund Freud - Baker, Rachel
Sitting Bull, Champion of His People - Garst, Shannon
Soldier, Statesman and Defendant, Aaron Burr - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Song of the North, The Story of Edvard Grieg - Purdy, Claire Lee
Spain's Golden Queen Isabella - Iris Noble
Spokesman for the Free World, Adlai E. Stevenson - Levine, I.E
Spy for the Confederacy, Rosie O'Neal - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Stan Musical Story (The) - Schoor, Gene
Stormy Victory, The Story of Tchaikovsky - Purdy, Claire Lee
Story of Clara Barton of the Red Cross (The) - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Story of Phyllis Wheatley (The) - Graham, Shirley
Story of Ty Cobb: Baseball's Greatest Player, (The) - Schoor, Gene
Sun King, Louis XIV (The) - Apsler, Alfred
Susan B. Anthony - Noble, Iris
Talleyrand - Manuel Komroff
Tecumseh, Destiny's Warrior - Cooke, David C.
Ted Williams Story (The) - Schoor, Gene
Thaddeus Lowe, America's One-Man Air Corps - Hoehling, Mary
Thomas Jefferson - Komroff, Manuel
Three Conquistadors: Cortes, Coronado, Pizarro - Garst, Shannon
To Heaven on Horseback, the Story of Narcissa Whitman - Cranston, Paul
Treason at the Point - Nolan, Jeanette C.
Treasure Hunter, The Story of Robert Louis Stevenson (The) - Proudfit, Isabel
Twentieth Century Caesar, Benito Mussolini - Archer, Jules
Valiant Minstrel, The Story of Sir Harry Lauder - Malvern, Gladys
Valiant Virginian , Stonewall Jackson (The ) - Sutton, Felix
Vive de Gaulle, The Story of Charles de Gaulle Alfred Apsler
Voice of the People, William Jennings Bryan (The) - Kosner, Alice
Walt Whitman, Builder for America - Deutsch, Babette
Walter Reed, Doctor in Uniform - Wood, L. N.
Warrior on Two Continents, Thaddeus Kosciuszko - Abodaher, David J.
Wild Bill Hickok - Garst, Shannon with Warren Garst
Will Rogers, Immortal Cowboy - Garst, Shannon
William Bent and His Adobe Empire - Garst, Shannon
William Crawford Gorgas, Tropic Fever Fighter - Williams, Beryl & Epstein, Samuel
William Shakespeare - Noble, Iris
Winged Moccasins, The Story of Sacajawea - Farnsworth, Frances Joyce
Women Who Ruled, Cleopatra to Elizabeth II - Liston,Robert A.
World Citizen, Woodrow Wilson - Archer, Jules
Yankee Spy, Elizabeth Van Lew - Nolan, Jeannette C.
Yankee Thunder, The Legendary Life of Davy Crockett - Shapiro, Irwin
Young Ike - Hatch, Alden
Young Man in the White House, John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Levin, I. E.
Your Most Humble Servant, The Story of Benjamin Banneker - Graham, Shirley
Zambia's President, Kenneth Kaunda - Polatnick, Florence T. and Saletan, Alberta L.

2008-08-21T19:27:00.006-04:00

Bookmarks

We have a lot of old books around our house in our library. They require more care and handling. I'm usually very good at being careful with them but I tend to stick things in newer books to mark my place. Books I'm studying and using for research are stuffed with my notes written on many loose sheets of ruled notebook paper which also keep my place. This isn't always a good thing. Bookmarks are though and there are many, many many available.

An excerpt from a book, The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New: A Simple Repair Manual for Book Lovers by Margot Rosenberg and Bern Marcowitz, tells what happens when something is placed between the pages of a book:

"What goes into a book when it's written, even the most controversial content, won't act to a book's physical detriment. What goes into a book when it's read or shelved, however, is another story, with as many potentially hazardous plot twists as hoped-for happy endings.

Bookmarks, in one form or another, are ubiquitous, with a long and fascinating history. But there are things that mark our place in books, and there are bookmarks good and proper. We want to read on from where we were when we closed the book. What we shouldn't want is to leave evidence of our interrupted passage through those pages.

Most of us probably put some thought into what we read. But how many of us extend the favor of a little judgment to the books of our choice and bookmark them with care? Who among us recalls the last time, as we reached for whatever we were about to use as a bookmark, we pondered the chemical components, the acidic nature and possible interactions, of the paper of the book and that of the intended bookmark? Will they be good partners?

What's marking your place in the books you're reading now? The odd slip of paper or ticket stub, the envelope, postcard, brochure, or a receipt for the book you’re enjoying, or something else, whatever was at hand? A gift card that came with the book on your birthday? A pressed flower collected on a country ramble when you had a long, peaceful read under a fine old tree? Why not preserve the birthday card or drying rose in an acid-free clear plastic sleeve, perhaps, or even waxed paper, and shelve it next to the book?

The problem is this: you can mark your place in a book and leave that place marked forever. As dealers specializing in old books, we see it frequently: discolored pages preserving the outline of something that should not have been there, whether as bookmark or keepsake...."

To find out more about book care and bookmarks, read complete excerpt: Bookmarks from biblio.com's Unbound monthly ezine.

2006-03-25T00:28:00.009-05:00

Poem: Good Books

Good books are friendly things to own.
If you are busy they will wait.
They will not call you on the phone
Or wake you if the hour is late.
They stand together row by row,
Upon the low shelf or the high.
But if you're lonesome this you know:
You have a friend or two nearby.

The fellowship of books is real.
They're never noisy when you're still.
They won't disturb you at your meal.
They'll comfort you when you are ill.
The lonesome hours they'll always share.
When slighted they will not complain.
And though for them you've ceased to care
Your constant friends they'll still remain.

Good books your faults will never see
Or tell about them round the town.
If you would have their company
You merely have to take them down.
They'll help you pass the time away,
They'll counsel give if that you need.
He has true friends for night and day
Who has a few good books to read.

~Edgar Guest~

2006-03-06T22:32:00.010-05:00

Discount for Homeschoolers on Audio Books!

Here's a great discount for homeschoolers from Blackstone Audio Books.

For those days when we're sick, have appointments, or have catch-up work and can't read aloud as we usually do, we use recorded books for listening in the car, at meals or bedtime. We have many recorded books in our home library and Blackstone Audio is my favorite place to rent or purchase audio books. They have several thousand books, sent by mail, and even supply return packaging and postage. The recordings formats are cassette, cd, mp3-cd, and also some are available as digital download.

I just placed an order with Blackstone Audio today purchasing several excellent recorded books. Here's what I ordered: The Screwtape Letters-C.S. Lewis, How Should We Then Live?-Francis Schaeffer, The Sovereignty of God-Arthur Pink, Knowing God- J.I.Packer, The Story of Liberty-Charles Coffin, Men of Iron and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood-Howard Pyle.

It gets even better! Blackstone Audio offers 50% discount to homeschoolers using this coupon: af-2003-sb on PURCHASES ONLY (not on rentals). It does NOT expire and MAY BE passed on to other homeschoolers. The coupon has to be used just as I have it, no capital letters, only lower case letters. It should work that way but if there are any problems just email them and they are very helpful with answering questions.

2005-12-15T22:38:00.014-05:00

Books About Winter-Snow

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles of books to use as a reference.

Some years we have a real winter with snow but other years there is very little snow and that's when we make our own winter and snow with books. These are some of our favorites from the past years.

The following links will take you to a few neat web sites to use along with the books: This first one is about making online snowflakes: Look and Feel: Make Your Own Snowflake, the second one for making paper cut snowflakes: Paper Cut Snowflakes and make your own snowflakes with our Borax Crystals and Snowflake fun.

Here is a beautiful "children's" book about winter. I say "children's" because anyone can enjoy it, I know I do. Just as Robert Frost's poem puts you there in the woods so that you can touch the snow, so does the the vellum cover help you to see the snow. I love the white winter illustrations touched with muted colors. Look Inside Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Winter Story (Brambley Hedge) - Jill Barklem

First Snow - Kim Lewis

Flannel Kisses - Mari Takabayashi

It's Snowing - Olivier Dunrea

Winter: An Alphabet Acrostic - Steven Schnur

A Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats

Snowy Day: Stories and Poems - Caroline Feller Bauer

Dream Snow - Eric Carle

The Big Snow - Berta & Elmer Hader

Katy and the Big Snow - Virginia Lee Burton

The Log Cabin Quilt - Ellen Howard

A Prairie Boy's Winter - William Kurelek

Dear Rebecca, Winter Is Here - Jean Craighead George

Owl Moon - Jane Yolen

A Pussycat's Christmas - Margaret Wise Brown

The Mitten - Jan Brett
Jan Brett's Hedgehog Mask
Hedgehog-o-Rama
More of Jan Brett's Mitten Masks

A New Coat for Anna - Harriet Ziefert
Sheep at Kids Farm
Cotswold Woollen Weavers: A Tour Around the Mill

Brave Irene - William Steig

Snow is Falling (Let's Read and Find Out) - Franklyn Branley

The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty - Kenneth Libbrecht

The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story - Neil Waldman

Snowflake Bentley - Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Snow Crystals - W. A. Bentley

Snowflakes in Photographs - W. A. Bentley
Wilson A. Bentley, The Snowflake Man Web Site

Icebergs and Glaciers - Seymour Simon

Icebergs, Ice Caps, and Glaciers (Rookie-Read-About Science) - Allan Fowler

Animals in Winter (Let's Read and Find Out) - Henrietta Bancroft

Big Tracks, Little Tracks Following Animal Prints (Let's Read and Find Out) - Millicent E. Selsam

Mystery Tracks in the Snow - Gilliland

What is Hibernation? - A Bobby Kalman Book

Backyard Birds of Winter - Carol Lerner

Winter Tree Finder (Nature Study Guide) - May T. Watts

A Kid's Winter EcoJournal: With Nature Activities for Exploring the Season - Toni Albert

The Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and Victory - James E. Knight (Adventures in Colonial America series)

2005-09-26T23:38:00.003-04:00

Unit Study: Autumn

I've put together a list of books about autumn which also includes some titles about animals, trees and leaves:
List of Books About Autumn

Crafts and Poetry From my other blog: Let A Woman Learn
Another Favorite Autumn Poem: September
Another Favorite Autumn Poem: October's Bright Blue Weather
More Autumn Poetry

Web Sites:
The following links will take you to a few science web sites to use along with the books:
Biomes from the Missouri Botanical Garden
Temperate Deciduous Forest from the Missouri Botanical Garden
Seasons
Seasons
Fundamentals of Physical Geography: Earth-Sun Geometry
Trees Are Terrific
Science Made Simple-Why Do Leaves Change Color?
The Great Corn Adventure
The Miracle of Fall - from the University of Illinois extension, it has lots of other interesting links, too.
A Time For All Seasons - printable Core Knowledge Lesson Plan: search for title: "Time For All Seasons - Fall" and a link will come up for the printable PDF
Chemical of the Week: Chemistry of Autumn Colors
Autumn Primary Handwriting Lined Practice Paper
Autumn Leaf Primary Handwriting Lined Practice Paper
Autumn Pumpkin Primary Handwriting Lined Practice Paper
Video on "Sun & Seasons"
Wonderful list of 150 varieties of squash with photos of each from Missouri Botanical Garden "Squash Display"
Journey South-Migration
Chipmunks
Owls
Squirrels
Bears
Raccoons

Autumn Activities:

Autumn leaves can be used for numerous projects. There are several way to press and preserve these beautiful leaves. Old telephone books make good, inexpensive presses. Also, old newspaper, weighted down with heavy objects can be used. We dry and press the leaves for one to four weeks, checking them after 3 or 4 days until they were thoroughly dry.

Another way is by pressing them with an iron between two sheets of wax paper. They do not have to be dried and pressed in a telephone book but they can be. If you're using leaves from a nature walk, just make sure to wipe off any dirt or moisture so they are thoroughly dry.

Using only dry leaves, take two sheets of wax paper at least 8 1/2 X 11 inches (it can be larger and arrange the leaves without overlapping so there is space between them. Small crayon shavings of autumn colors (red, orange, yellow, brown) can be placed around the leaves which will melt into additional color making the wax paper adhere better. Carefully iron them at a low setting for a few seconds at a time, using a sheet of newspaper or a piece of paper bag over the top of the wax paper. This will melt the crayon shavings and the wax paper together. Allow to cool.

Some of the ways the pressed leaves can be used with construction paper are for bookmarks, cards, nature notebooks, framed displays for wall hanging, science projects, leave collections, placemats or hole punched for a mobile. Construction paper can be used to make the shape or outlining frame of a leave to use for cards or for display. They can also be hung or taped in windows with just the wax paper for stain-glass like transparent window decorations, either as a the large group or they can be cut as individual leaves keeping a ½ to 1 inch margin. Ribbon, yarn or strong string can be used for mobiles or window sun catchers. If you want to use in a notebook, you can use two sheets of wax paper that are 8 ½ X 11 inches which can be trimmed to fit into a plastic sheet protector. If you have doubles of the same type of leaves, you can make a memory game and learn the different types of leaves at the same time.

A variation of the wax paper leaves is to cut shapes of leaves from the wax paper. You won't be using real leaves for this project. Make duplicates by cutting two pieces of wax paper at a time and make them a bit larger than normal. Shave crayons on one piece and layer the other piece of wax paper on top. Then press with a low setting iron to melt the crayon shavings. Hole punch and tie on ribbon, yarn, or string and hang at windows or in a mobile.

Other ways of preserving leaves are by using clear contact paper.

Some other projects with leaves:

Rubbings-use the underneath side of the leaf where the veins are most prominent and put under a white sheet of paper. Use crayons or colored pencils and rub over the leaf to get the impression.

Foil Rubbings-use the underneath side of the leaf where the veins are most prominent and put under a piece of foil and gently rub or press with hand to get leaf print or impression.

Stencil or stamp-use a leaf as a stencil or stamp by covering with paint and pressing image onto paper. Use construction paper, old paper sacks, or card stock. Cover with clear contact paper.

Leaf Related Projects:
Paper towel coloring-trace and cut various leaf shapes. Make different bowls of food colored water to dip the paper towel leaves in. Paper towel leaves can be one color or mixed by dipping in several colors.

All of the above can be cut and used for making cards or gifts, decorations or displays.

Additional Autumn Activity Links:
More Autumn Activities
Fall Crafts
Preschool Printable Coloring Book

Facts, Mottos, Folklore, Quotes, and Poems for Copybooks or Nature Notebooks:

"Fair on September first, fair for the month."

"Thunder in the fall foretells a cold winter."

"It will be a bad winter if trees keep their leaves until late in the fall."

When it is evening you say, "It will be fair, for the sky is red." And in the morning,"It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening." Matthew 16:2

"If berries or nuts are plentiful, it will be a hard winter."

Pumpkins are "fruit" and come from the vine family which are called cucurbits; this includes cucumbers, melons, squash, and gourds.

In astronomy, the autumnal equinox (fall/September/southward equinox) signals the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere, the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward; the equinox occurs around September 22-24 varying slightly each year according to the 4-year leap years in the Gregorian calendar. (from wikipedia.org)

Solstice - day when the sun reaches its farthest northern and southern declinations. The winter solstice occurs on December 21 or 22 and marks the beginning of winter (this is the shortest day of the year). The summer solstice occurs on June 21 and marks the beginning of summer (this is the longest day of the year).(from wikipedia.org)

Equinoxe - the day in which day and night are of equal duration. Two yearly equinoxes occur when the sun crosses the celestial equator.(from wikipedia.org)

Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
~William Cullen Bryant~ Autumn Woods

To the beeches of Neldoreth I came in the Autumn. Ah! The gold and red and the sighing of leaves in the Autumn in Taur-na-neldor! It was more than my desire. ~J.R.R. Tolkien~

No Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face. ~John Donne~

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge~

There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley~
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot~

2005-09-24T08:53:00.002-04:00

Books About Autumn

Here are some wonderful books about autumn, harvest time, animals, apples, and pumpkins for the PreK-early elementary grade level. Some of the books do include jack-o-lanterns, carving pumpkins, and halloween and are noted. Please, use your own discretion as to which books are best for your family.

The following links will take you to a few neat science web sites to use along with the books: This first one is about trees: Trees Are Terrific, the second one is about leaves changing color: Science Made Simple, a third one is about corn: Corn and this last one is about autumn and tree colors in general: The Miracle of Fall -- it has lots of other links. Plus more autumn related activities and web site links we've gathered.

Autumn: An Alphabet Acrostic - Steven Schnur, illustrated by Leslie Evans

Fall is Here! I Love It! - Elaine W. Good

Autumn Story - Jill Barklem

Look What I Did with a Leaf! (Naturecraft) - Morteza E. Sohi

It's Fall - Linda Glasser, with cut-paper illustrations by Susan Swan

When Autumn Falls - Kelly Nidey, illustrations by Susan Swan

Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf - Lois Ehlert

How Do You Know It's Fall (Rookie Read About Science) - Allan Fowler

Why Do Leaves Change Color? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out-Science) - Betsy Maestro, illustrated by Loretta Krupinski

Apples - Gail Gibbons

Picking Apples and Pumpkins - Amy Hutchings, illustrated by Richard Hutchings, (carving pumpkins and trick-or-treaters dressed up in costumes)

How Do Apples Grow? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science) - Betsy Maestro, illustrated by Giulio Maestro

Apple Fractions - Jerry Pallotta, Rob Bolster

From Seed to Pumpkin (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science) - Wendy Pfeffer, illustrated by James Graham Hale

Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden - George Levenson, photographer Shmuel Thaler

Pumpkin Pumpkin - Jeanne Titherington (jack-o-lantern, carving pumpkins)

The Pumpkin Patch - Elizabeth King (all the stages of growth and does include carving pumpkins and jack-0-lanterns)

Pumpkins - Ryans Williams

Too Many Pumpkins - Linda White, illustrated by Megan Lloyd

Pumpkin Moonshine - Tasha Tudor

Corn-On and Off the Cob (Rookie Read-About Science) - Allan Fowler

Corn is Maize (Lets-Read-and-Find-Out Science) - Aliki

Lonely Scarecrow - Tim Preston, illustrated by Maggie Kneen

Scarecrows - Lola M. Schaefer

In November - Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Jill Kastner

Animals in the Fall - Gail Saunders-Smith

Every Autumn Comes the Bear- Jim Arnosky
Read more about Jim Arnosky and his books at his web site: Jim Arnosky

2005-09-13T00:16:00.002-04:00

On Our Shelves

Our Favorite Books and Authors

Our Favorite Picture Books

Our Favorite Chapter-Novel Books

Our Favorite History Books

Our Favorite Science-Nature Study Books

2005-09-09T01:23:00.007-04:00

Series: The Young Historian series

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

This series was published in the 1960's by The John Day Company, John Day Books. This series is for approximately grade levels 5 - 8, ages 10 - 14. Each book has a table of main dates/events, book list and index, around 40-50 photographs, line drawings and maps, and is around 110 pages.

From the cover: "When we learn in school about other lands and peoples, we do not--except in the case of Greece or Italy--usually study the history of their beginnings and their earliest times. The Young Historian books seek to fill this gap with entertainingly written and authoritative accounts of ancient history which provide a backdrop to our knowledge of modern civilization. Written by authors who are specialists in their respective fields, these lively and informative books are illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps."

From the book, Imperial Rome, copyright 1967 The John Day Company, Chapter 7 "Life in the Provinces and the Roman Legacy":

"Conquered countries do not usually accept the language of their conquerors as the common tongue; it is more usually a reverse process. Yet this is what happened in France and Spain and Portugal, and to a less extent in Britain and Dacia (Roumania). In the process the people may have twisted the language about a little, failed to appreciate its finer points, spoken it a little lazily and slovenly (the number of consonants at the ends of words that the Frenchman fails to pronounce is considerable); but all that is only something to be expected."

"But why was the Latin tongue so accepted? Partly it is because Latin was the language of all written documents and all administration, as well as the language spoken invariably by the rulers themselves; the Roman being sufficiently arrogant, as the Greek had been before him, did not trouble to learn other outlandish tongues. But it was of course something more than that. Language is a tool of communication between man and man; and it can be like a blunt chisel or like an instrument of delicacy and precision, a modern electric hand drill, shall we say, with many modifications and attachments. Latin was much more like the latter."

". . . Latin was not a simple language, and it therefore needed care and precision in its use. But it was rewarding when that care was taken, and indeed it gave a freedom that other simpler languages cannot give. The fact that nouns have case endings, to show, for instance, not only the genitive or possessive case but also the accusative or the object of a verb as opposed to its subject, is no doubt a terrible trial to the modern schoolboy learning the language. But it does give a flexibility and a neatness. It allows effects to be produced by the changing of the order of words in a sentence. If we wish to stress that a dog bit a man, and not a hunk of meat, we cannot do it by changing the order of words but have to say clumsily, 'It was a man that the dog bit.' We cannot reverse the words for effect and say, 'Man bit dog,' for that means something entirely different. But the Romans could do it: Canis hominen mordet, 'The dog bites the man'; Hominem canis mordet, 'The man, the dog bites.' In the same way adjectives can, for effect, be separated from the nouns they govern, because the imposed similarity of their ending makes it clear (at least to the person used to the method) that the two go together. This gives to poetry in particular great scope not only in its effect of meaning but in its rhythm: Eheu feugaces, Posthume, Posthume, labuntur anni. That is a much-quoted tag from the poet Horace, addressing sadly his old friend Posthumus: 'Alas, oh Posthumus, oh Posthumus, how the fleeting years glide by!' . . . "

Ancient Crete - Wilkins, Frances
Ancient China - Spencer, Cornelia
Ancient Egypt - Green, Roger Lancelyn
Ancient Greece - Green, Roger Lancelyn
Ancient Japan - Kidder, J. E.
Ancient Maya - Burland, C.A.
Ancient Russia - Wren, Melvin C.
Ancient Scandinavia - Proctor, George L.
Byzantium - Rice, Tamara Talbot
Imperial Rome - Pike, E. Royston
Israel - Coiloms, Brenda
Modern Japan - Powell, Brian
Republican Rome - Mellersh, H.E.
The French Revolution - Pratt, N.S
The Industrial Revolution - Rooke, Patrick
The Reformation - Cowie, Leonard W.
The Russian Revolution - Kochan, Lionel
The Renaissance - Bull, George

2005-09-08T01:12:00.004-04:00

Author: Richard Suskind

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

These books were published by W. W. Norton and Company Inc. and Little, Brown and Company. Each book is around 60-80 pages and written for approximately grade levels 4-8, ages 9-14. Mr. Suskind weaves fascinating prose for excellent reading and gives crisp, detailed accounts for providing historical background and overviews of these time periods. He does this by examining the daily life and experiences of "people" and quoting various source material which make the facts more real. Wonderful, excellent reading for history.

Taken from the book Swords Spears and Sandals, The Story of the Roman Legions c1969 W. W. Norton and Company Inc. :

"Richard Suskind was born in New York City and attended public schools there. In 1943, he joined the Army and served in the 8th Armored Division as a machine gunner in the Battle of the Bulge, in Holland and in Germany. After the war he continued his education on the G.I. Bill in such schools as Columbia University, the University of Florence, the University of Paris, the Juilliard School of Music, and the Conservatory of Music in Paris."

"In 1948, Mr. Suskind served with the Israeli Army during the war for independence. He then joined the merchant marine, and in the next two years traveled around the world twice. He has lived all over the world. He spent two years in Italy, five in Paris, and seven years on the Spanish island of Ibiza, part of the Balearic group in the Mediterranean."

"Mr. Suskind has been writing since the age of fifteen, and is the author of three books and more than one hundred articles and short stories. He is married and has one son."

An excerpt from the book:

"Following Hannibal's orders, the Carthaginian foot soldiers fell back under Roman assault. The legionnaires saw victory within their grasp and poured into the gap. Then the Carthaginians stiffened and held, while the Numidian horseman swept in from the sides, shouting their savage cries and stabbing with their spears. The legionnaires were so crowded together that they had no room to use their weapons, and the battle quickly became a massacre. The historian Livy described the battlefield as it appeared on the following day:

'At dawn the Carthaginians came out to collect the booty and to gaze upon a scene of slaughter at which even they must have shuddered. Thousands of Romans dead lay there, infantrymen and calvarymen, as luck had thrown them together. Some of the wounded were revived by the crisp morning air and rose to their feet all covered with blood. The foe cut them down where they stood . . . '

"Rome was never closer to being conquered and destroyed than after the battle of Cannae. The flower of her legions was gone, and almost all the rest of Italy now allied itself with the victorious Carthaginians. Hannibal, however, did not dare to attack the strong-walled city itself until he received reinforcements from Carthage. So he led his army back into the mountains and continued to ravage the countryside."

Barbarians (The)
Cross and Crescent, The Story of the Crusades
Crusader King, Richard the Lionhearted (The)
Men in Armor, The Story of Knights and Knighthood
Swords Spears and Sandals, The Story of the Roman Legions

2005-08-31T14:36:00.003-04:00

Poem: The Children's Hour

Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.

I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.

From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.

A whisper, and then a silence:
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.

A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall!
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!

They climb up into my turret
O'er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.

They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!

Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old moustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!

I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.

And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder is dust away!

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

Image from The Children's Hour by Eva March Tappan, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1907, "They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine"

2005-08-29T21:16:00.003-04:00

Sets-Anthologies: The Children's Hour - Eva March Tappan

Houghton Mifflin, copyright 1907 & 1916

The Children's Hour
Volume 2 Myths from Many Lands

The Children's Hour Anthology:
Volume 1 Folk Stories & Fables
Volume 2 Myths From Many Lands
Volume 3 Stories From the Classics
Volume 4 Stories of Legendary Heroes
Volume 5 Stories From Seven Old Favorites
Volume 6 Old Fashioned Stories & Poems
Volume 7 Out-of-Door Book
Volume 8 Adventures & Achievements
Volume 9 Poems & Rhymes
Volume 10 Modern Stories

The next edition printed in 1916 came out with an additional 5 new volumes which were not a part of the original ten volume set.
Volume 11 Stories of Nature
Volume 12 Sports & Pastimes
Volume 13 Book of Humor
Volume 14 Modern Triumphs
Volume 15 Wonders of Science

Extra Volume for Parents: A Guide to Good Reading, With Practical Suggestions for the Use of The Children's Hour in the Home

Images from my 15 volume set: The Children's Hour by Eva March Tappan, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin Co., c1907, c1916

2005-08-27T21:14:00.005-04:00

Author: Eva March Tappan

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

American Hero Stories
American History Stories for Very Young Readers
Chaucer Story Book, Chaucer, Geoffrey
Christ Story
Diggers in the Earth
Dixie Kitten
Ella, A Little Schoolgirl of the Sixties (1860's)
Elementary History of Our Country
England's Story, A History For Grammar and High Schools
European Hero Stories
Farmer and His Friends (The Industrial Reader Book 1)
Golden Goose and Other Fairy Tales
Hero Stories of France
Heroes of the Middle Ages
Heroes of Progress, Stories of Successful Americans
House With the Silver Door
In Feudal Times, Social Life in the Middle Ages
In the Days of Alfred the Great
In the days of Queen Elizabeth
In the Days of Queen Victoria
In the Days of William the Conqueror
Letters From Colonial Children
Little Book of Our Country
Little Book of the Flag
Little Book of the War
Little Lady in Green and Other Tales
Makers of Many Things
Old Ballads in Prose
Old, Old Story-Book, Compiled from the Old Testament
Our Country's Story, An Elementary History of the United States
Our European Ancestors, An Introduction to United States History
Poems For the Study of Language Prescribed in the Course of Study for the Common Schools of Illinois
Prince From Nowhere and Other Tales
Robin Hood, His Book
Short History of America's Literature, With Selections From Colonial and Revolutionary Writers
Short History of America's Literature, With Additional Chapters by Rose Adelaide Witham
Short History of England's and America's Literature
Short History of England's Literature
Stories of America for Very Young Readers,
Story of Our Constitution
Story of the Greek people, An Elementary History of Greece
Story of the Roman people, An Elementary History of Rome
Travelers and Traveling

2005-08-26T21:06:00.004-04:00

Author: Irene Brady

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles of books by the author to use as a reference.

These science book were published in the late 1960's to early 1970's by publishers, Houghton Mifflin Co., Scribners and William Morrow Company. In narrative style, they are wonderful for reading aloud to the youngest children and are especially good for children who are reading on their own (grades 1-4, ages 6-9) but all ages would enjoy them, I know I do. Irene Brady presents each topic with accurate information and descriptions about the world of nature. Her knowledge of nature is also evident in her lovely muted art/illustrations which add a "museum-like" detail to the text. If you can't personally visit these places or view these animals in your area, you can read about them -- hours of observation and sketching put the natural world at your finger tips -- delightful reads for your nature/science study.

Hawk Habitat*
"It was a cold and frosty March morning when the female red-tailed hawk laid her first egg in the old crow's nest in the top of the oak tree. All around her the canyon was cold and bare, windy in the open places and in her tree. But it was time to lay the eggs, so she did. Setting on her eggs like a chicken on its nest, the hawk stared through the bare oak limbs and waited. Her mate brought her things to eat -- a squirrel, a mouse, a sparrow -- and she sat and sat. For thirty days and thirty nights she waited..."

"...The chicks began to eat the day after they hatched. The female could squeak very loudly, and the male was a noisy little chick, too. Their mother tore meat that her mate brought into tiny bits and offered it to the chicks until they could eat no more. She moved her feet carefully so that she wouldn't step on the young ones."

Written and illustrated by Irene Brady:

America's Horses & Ponies (still in print) - 1969 Houghton Mifflin Co.
A Mouse Named Mus - 1972 Houghton Mifflin Co.
Beaver Year (still in print) - 1976 Houghton Mifflin Co.
Doodlebug - fiction, 1977 Houghton Mifflin Co.
Elephants on the Beach (still in print)- 1979 Scribners
Owlet, The Great Horned Owl (still in print) - 1974 Houghton Mifflin Co.
Redrock Canyon Explorer (The) (still in print) - 1998 Nature Works.
Wild Babies (still in print) - 1979 Houghton Mifflin Co.
Wild Mouse - 1976 Scribners

Written by other authors and illustrated by Irene Brady:

Animal Babysitters (still in print) - Zweifel, Frances
Cloud Horse - Pinkwater, Jill
Conversations With A Pocket Gopher - Schaefer, Jack
Have You Ever Heard of A Kangaroo Bird - Brenner, Barbara
Forest Log - Newton, James
Five Fat Raccoons - Freschet, Berniece
Gorilla - McClung, Robert
Lili, A Giant Panda of Sichuan - McClung, Robert
Living Treasure - Pringle, Laurence
Peeping in the Shell - McNulty, Faith
Rajpur, Last of the Bengal Tigers - McClung, Robert
Summer Bird Feeding - Dennis, John
Whitetail - McClung, Robert
25 Hikes Along the Pacific Crest Trail - Skillman, Don & Lolly

Some of her titles are available at her, Irene Brady's web page, Nature Works.

2005-08-25T21:01:00.006-04:00

Author: Piero Ventura

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

A contempory author and illustrator who writes imaginatively all the while conveying many facts and details. His soft watercolor illustration add accuracy and visual explanation yet never distracting from the text with too much business. These are for approximately grade level 2-6 but can be read aloud to younger children.

From the book, In Search of Troy, copyright 1985 by Silver Burdett Company:

"In Search of Troy is an adventure story; exciting, gripping and full of fascinating detail. It traces the story of the search for and thrilling discovery of Troy. The book's starting point is the relatively recent past when the archaeological 'detective story' began. The inspiration and energy of the people involved in the hunt for ancient clues is described with vigorous accuracy. The momentum and suspense build until the great discovery is made. The goal of the search is then shown in all its fascinating detail."

1492 The Year of the New World
In Search of Ancient Crete
Book of Cities
Christopher Columbus
Grand Constructions
Great Composers
Great Painters
Houses
In Search of Troy - with Gian Paolo Ceserani
Man and the Horse
There Once Was a Time
Troy
Tutankhamun
Venice: Birth of a City

2005-08-24T20:53:00.004-04:00

Author: Frank North Shankland, Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat, Saalfield Publishing Co., c1930

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles by the author to use as a reference.

These nature books are large format, approximately 9 X 12 inches and have easy to read text in larger print for young eyes but the text is very appealing for the 6 - 8 (10 ) age group. For young children these are beautiful books to have read aloud while working on their own nature notebook. Mr. Shankland's text is written in a narrative, story style but is very factual observations and give a good example of what a nature observation can be. The art work is done in color and black/white line drawings by one of our favorite children's book illustrators, Fern Bisel Peat. My copies have quite a bit of wear to the covers but are well worth having.Author: Frank North Shankland, Illustrated by Fern Bisel Peat, Saalfield Publishing Co., c1930

Chisel-Tooth And Other Forest Dwellers
Common Birds

The Bird Book, Observations of Bird Life - Saalfield Publishing Company, c 1931

Taken from my copy- Chapter: The Bluebird

"For the past three years the Bluebirds have arrived at my home on exactly the same date each year, namely, the twelfth of March. But last year, although the date of arrival was the same, the end of March was near before the female had selected her nesting place, which was in the hollow limb of an apple tree, about nine feet above the ground. But once the question of location was settled, she worked so rapidly that it was only about four days until the nest was finished. About a week later I brought a stepladder, and while both birds were away, took a look into the nest. It was a cozy little cup-shaped one, made of grasses and fine weed stems, the inside diameter about two and a half inches, and it contained five pale blue eggs. The adult birds measure a little less than seven inches in length.........The pair of Bluebirds had many troubles and adventures before their young finally hatched. One day our family cat spied the mother bird going into the nest and had climbed the tree and put her paw into the entrance before I happened to arrive on the scene. She received such a whipping that she never came near the nest again that summer.........One evening about dusk, we heard a Screech Owl calling near the nest, and looking out saw the Owl perched on a dead limb just a few feet from it. We got out the rifle and sent a bullet in that direction, which made the feathers fly, and the Owl never appeared there again........Just before the eggs hatched, there was a snowstorm and it was so cold that the female Bluebird had to stay on the eggs continually to keep them from being chilled. All the troubles were finally over, however, and the young Bluebirds were hatched. About the middle of May they were able to get out of the nest and fly about the orchard. They were not as pretty as their parents, not having the dark blue back nor the ruddy breast of the adults, but they were interesting little fellows. They soon left the orchard and we heard them only occasionally in the pasture land back of the barn, which was full of stumps and low trees where they could find shelter......Before the first brood had been out of their nest a week, the old Bluebirds renovated the nesting place and by the first of June another set of eggs had been laid. The parents still watched out for their first brood, however, even after the second brood had also left the nest. Later in the summer the family gradually became scattered and attached themselves to other flocks of migrating Bluebirds......That summer one of our neighbors had a pair of Bluebirds build in their mailbox, and although the postman stopped everyday and left mail in one end of the box, the birds were successful in raising two broods at the other end of it.......With the coming of autumn, the migrating instinct asserted itself and the Bluebirds prepared to go south. That fall, I saw a great deal of them while strolling trough the fields and pastures near my home. At almost any hour of the day I could hear their pensive autumn notes floating down from the sky..........At this season Bluebirds rove about in small flocks, singing their plaintive farewells. They seem to love their summer haunts, perhaps as no other birds do, and when the autumn tides roll in on our northern states, there is no more characteristic sound than their soft, heartfelt good-bye song."

Taken from my copy - Chapter: Spiny, the Porcupine

"Spiny was an old patriarch, six years old. He was built much like a woodchuck, with a loose, heavy body, short legs, blunt nose, and a broad, heavy tail. His body was about 30 inches long, exclusive of his tail, which was six inches long. He weighed over twenty pounds. Each of his front feet had four toes, and each of his hind feet, five toes. His back and entire upper parts, including tail, were thickly covered with coarse quills, ranging in length form one to three inches. His tail was specially adapted for defense and with it he was capable of dealing a terrible blow........In habits, Spiny resembled none of the other wood folk very much, although he did have something in common with the beavers. Both porcupines and beavers are true rodents, and their food is similar, consisting of the tender bark of trees. Porcupines, however, are partial to the coniferous trees, while beavers are fond of the poplars and birches. Like the beavers, Spiny was nocturnal in his habits, seldom coming out by daylight, and doing most of his hunting after dark. Both beavers and porcupines have powerful tails, which they use for defense as well as for work, but in this respect the porcupine is the best equipped, since his tail is armored with numerous quills, which he is able to drive into the flesh of his enemies by a sudden and powerful blow. Besides the quills, they are exemplified in Spiny's back, but when he became excited, or was attacked by some animal, every on of them stood up straight, making him look like a bristling bundle of barbed needles. The quills are easily loosened, and when once they entered the flesh of some unfortunate animal, they could be withdrawn only with great effort and pain; and if left alone, they gradually worked deeper and deeper into the flesh until, in some cases, they went in out of sight and became encysted......Spiny's den was in a ledge of large rocks on the mountain side above the Seventh Lake, one of the Fulton chain in the Adirondacks. Here he had hollowed out a little round bed, where he spent most of each day in solitary slumber. He was averse to all kinds of companionship, even with his own near relatives, every one of whom lived alone on the mountain side and had no dealings with other porcupines except in the mating season, which begins in September..........On the evening of May 30, 1924, Spiny stole out of his den and moved slowly down toward the camps of Seventh Lake. Behind him the mountains rose dark and mysterious, their slopes covered with birch and pine trees. There was a new moon rising slowly among the clouds to the southeast. Across the lake to the west, Goff's Island, with its single summer camp, was visible through the moonlight, the tall pine trees waving majestically in the breeze. A group of these pines at the northerly end of the island stretched out their long upper branches in such a way that they reminded one of the eagle feathers on the head-dress of a Iroquois chief...........By this time it was past midnight and Spiny started up the lake in quest of new adventures. He soon struck the trail to Beaver Meadows and decided to follow it for a way. This decision very nearly cost him his life. He was hobbling slowly along on this trail when he chanced to see another porcupine two hundred yards ahead of him. Spiny was an exceptionally unsociable porcupine and he started to detour around the stranger. He had not gone more than fifty feet, however, when it was apparent that the second porcupine was in serious trouble. A slim, black animal had approached and was slowly stealing up on the unlucky porcupine. This animal was a fisher cat, the largest and most ferocious of the weasel family and the most deadly and resourceful enemy of the porcupine tribe.........Spiny looked on indifferently while this tragedy was taking place. It mattered nothing to him that the porcupine was in trouble, although, as a matter of fact, he was an own cousin of his. Spiny felt that discretion was the better part of valor and so he quietly retreated down the path and sought shelter in his own den, where heremained until the next evening at eight o'clock.........."

2005-08-23T20:40:00.006-04:00

Authors: Helen and Richard Leacroft

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

From the dust jacket: "Helen and Richard Leacroft are well known in England for their books on various aspects of architecture and the theater. At present, Mr. Leacroft is Head of the Department of Preliminary Studies in the School of Architecture, Leicester College of Art. Mrs. Leacroft is a teaching specialist in History and Scripture." These are very nice books for the study of architecture and technological/engineering discoveries of the various time periods. Each has around 40 pages and is very well balanced with rich, descriptive text and illustrations by Richard Leacroft. Approximate grade level 3-6 but would be good for reading aloud to younger ages.

The Buildings of Ancient Man
The Buildings of Early Islam
The Buildings of Byzantium
Churches and Cathedrals

The Buildings of Ancient Mesopotamia - William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher, 1966

The Buildings of Ancient Egypt - William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher, 1963

The Buildings of Ancient Greece - William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher, 1966

The Buildings of Ancient Rome - copyright 1969, William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher. From the dust jacket: "The vigor and diversity of ancient Roman society placed many demands upon its architects and builders. This society not only had need of large public buildings, monuments, and temples at home, but entire towns had to be maintained as far-flung outposts of the Empire throughout Europe and northern Africa. Roman architects responded with technological inventiveness and engineering discoveries that have had a far-reaching effect upon the construction and style of buildings through the western world. Using concrete as well as stone and wood, the Romans raised enormous buildings compounded of arches, vaults and domes which looked quite different from previous architectural styles. The Leacrofts have helped to broaden the reader's view of Roman society-a society which parallels our own ways-through precise descriptions of how such structures as aqueducts and bridges, as well as buildings like the Pantheon and the baths, were built. The text, and the accompanying full-color illustrations of Roman life, give a vivid sense of what it might have felt like to walk the streets of the city of Rome from the Colosseum to the Forum. A valuable tool for anyone interested in our architectural heritage."

From page 22-23 "Waterworks" - copyright 1969, William R. Scott, Inc., Publisher: "From the reservoirs the water was fed through pipes, usually of lead, but sometimes of wood or terra cotta, to public fountains, where the people had to collect their own supplies. Wealthy men, at their own expense, often laid pipes, stamped with their names, to take water to their own houses, and it was not unknown for unscrupulous people to tap the pipes and provide themselves with water without paying for it, although there were strict laws forbidding this sort of thing. Water was also piped to the thermae -- baths, and special gangs of slaves -- aquarii -- were responsible for maintaining the public services . . . The importance of drainage was also realized, and waste water and sewage in Rome were collected in pipes and emptied through a great drain, the Cloaca Maxima, into the river Tiber. This semicircular tunnel can still be seen today . . . Many people in cities lived in flats -- cenacula -- in tenement blocks -- insulae . . . Those who lived on the ground floor could have lavatories, but for those who lived above this was not possible, and so the majority of people had to pay to use the public latrines -- foricae. The seats, with marble tops -- in one case in Ostia these were made from old tombstones -- were set around the walls of the open room, and beneath them ran a channel of water which carried away the sewage into the main drainage system. There was no privacy, and it was not unusual for people to meet at the forica and hold discussions while sitting there."

2005-08-22T20:33:00.005-04:00

Author: Olive L. Earle

William Morrow & Company

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

These science books have become some of our most favorite. They have the copyright date of 1950's - 1970's. Most of these science books have easy to read text in larger print for young eyes and is very appealing for the 6 - 8 (10 ) years age group. There is a wealth of information. Being an artist-naturalist, Olive Earle's knowledge of and love for nature is evident in her writing and detailed sketches. She includes a great deal of information not commonly known. They are a delight to read while learning about nature.

From the dust jacket of Peas, Beans, and Licorice:

"Peas and beans are widely known as legumes, but few realize that licorice belongs to the same family. There are also further surprising relatives, such as mimosa, peanuts, and the dread loco weed of Western prairies. In a handsomely illustrated study, an accomplished naturalist surveys this botanical group and points out the many interesting plants and trees found in it.......First Miss Earle explains the distinguishing structural feature of legumes, which is that they bear their seeds in pods. Then she describes and pictures more than thirty species, selected for their variety in appearance and function. Although many legumes are an important food for man, others like the wisteria are prized solely for their beauty. Still others play an industrial role. The fine-grained wood of the laburnum tree, for example, is suitable for cabinetwork and for making musical instruments.....Valuable for its botanical information, this book makes lively reading as well. The author has a keen eye for the odd fact and intriguing piece of lore that give her subject broad appeal."

Other titles:
Animals and Their Ears
Birds and Their Beaks
Birds and Their Nests
Birds of the Crow Family
Camels and Llamas
Crickets
Mice at Home and Afield
Nuts
Octopus (The)
Paws, Hoofs, and Flippers
Peas, Beans, and Licorice
Pigs, Tame and Wild
Pond and Marsh Plants
Praying Mantis
Robins in the Garden
Rose Family (The)
Scavengers
Squirrels in the Garden
State Birds and Flowers
State Trees
Strange Companions in Nature
Strange Fishes of the Sea
Strange Lizards
Strangler Fig and Other Strange Plants
Swans of Willow Pond (The)
Thunder Wings, The Story of a Ruffed Grouse
White Patch, A City Sparrow

2005-08-21T20:10:00.009-04:00

Author: Mary Chubb, illustrated by Jill Wyatt

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

Published by Watts International of Great Britain or Geoffrey Bles of London

For a reading about Ancient History, these books are favorites with us for the younger years, age 4-9. Although each of these books are approximately 60 pages long and done in the form of an Alphabet, Mary Chubb describes in accurate detail the history and civilization of the ancient Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Greeks and Roman people. They are not "Nursery" books but basic, topical resources for grade level K - 3. Each letter of the alphabet has one illustration about the topic by Jill Wyatt who researched existing buildings, paintings and archaeological finds for her drawings. At the beginning of each book, Mary Chubb uses a time line to present notes and useful dates of major events.

An Alphabet of Assyria and Babylonia - Mary Chubb, illustrated by Jill Wyatt
An Alphabet of Ancient Britain
City in the Sand
Nefertiti Lived Here

An Alphabet of the Holy Land - Mary Chubb, illustrated by Jill Wyatt
Published by Geoffrey Bles, London.

An Alphabet of Ancient Egypt - Mary Chubb, illustrated by Jill Wyatt
Published by Watts International, Great Britain, 1966.

An Alphabet of Ancient Greece. Book One - Early Days
Mary Chubb, illustrated by Jill Wyatt, Published by Watts International, Great Britain, 1967.

An Alphabet of Ancient Greece, Book Two - The Golden Years
Mary Chubb, illustrated by Jill Wyatt, Published by Watts International, Great Britain, 1968.

An Alphabet of Ancient Rome - Mary Chubb, illustrated by Jill Wyatt, Published by Geoffrey Bles, London, 1971.

From page 44, copyright 1971, Geoffrey Bles: "Pompeii was once a flourishing town south-east of Rome; it was close to a volcanic mountain called Vesuvius. Today a faint thread of smoke can still be seen drifting harmlessly up from the crater, and at night the clouds above sometimes flush red for a moment in the darkness. But on August 24th, A.D. 79, Vesuvius suddenly flung up a mass of red-hot lava and poisonous fumes to an enormous height. A young man of eighteen, called Pliny, was there, and later described what he saw, an actual eyewitness account. He said the eruption looked like a pine tree shooting up into several branches. Then a great black cloud which 'now and again yawned open showing long fantastic flames' began to sink down over the town. He saw people tying pillows and shawls on their heads for protection -- but it was no use. Hardly anybody had time to run away; all the rest died. In three days Pompeii had completely vanished under a layer of ash thirty feet deep. Pliny, of course, escaped, but as he ran he thought; 'I am perishing with the whole world.' But what was utter disaster for the Pomeians has given us an enormous amount of knowledge about the life in a Roman town at that time. Because as archaeologists dug down into the volcanic ash, they found everything preserved exactly as it was on the first terrible day. Houses, streets, shops, furniture, wall-paintings, food -- loaves of bread were found, still in the baker's oven. In one fine house the floor of a passage leading from the front door was decorated with colored mosaics. One design near the door showed the fierce guardian of the family, with two words: 'Cave Canem' under his portrait. They mean: 'Beware of the Dog.' "

2005-08-20T09:35:00.005-04:00

Series: A Visual Biography - Franklin Watts, copyright 1973-79

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

Captain John Smith - ??
Christopher Columbus - Sue Heimann
Francisco Coronado - Malcolm C. Jensen
Henry Hudson - ??
Hernando Cortes - ??
John and Sebastian Cabot - Henry Kurtz
Leif Erikson the Lucky - W. J. Jacobs
Prince Henry the Navigator - W. J. Jacobs
Robert Cavelier De La Salle - W. J. Jacobs
Roger Williams - ??
Sacajawea - Olive Burt
Samuel De Champlain - W. J. Jacobs
William Bradford of Plymouth Colony - W. J. Jacobs

2005-08-19T20:29:00.004-04:00

Series: First Book of . . . - Franklin Watts, copyright 1950-60

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

2005-08-18T19:57:00.007-04:00

Series: The Young . . . - Roy Publishers

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

This biography series is published by Roy Publishers with copyright dates of 1960-1970. It is also sometimes published by Max Parrish of England. The book is a smaller size measuring 5" X 8" with the reading level for approximately grades 4-8 (ages 9-14). Each title is around 130 pages. The text is factual with rich language. The series covers primarily people of world history.

We're reading The Young Jane Austen right now and we've enjoyed finding out that she had a very warm and loving family who enjoyed reading together.

Taken from Chapter 6, Edward's News, copyright 1962 Roy Publishing Co. : "The time at the Abbey School went by pleasantly enough, with holidays at Steventon when Mr. Austen's pupils had gone home and the family were all gathered together again -- except for Edward. One Christmas they acted The Rivals, with all the dining-room furniture moved out and a row of chairs set against the wall for a strictly limited number of spectators. The actors, indeed, very nearly outnumbered the audience, but dear, fat Mrs Digweed, from the Manor House, nodding and beaming, said, 'It was just like a play!' which, as Henry remarked, was good to know, after all their exertions."

"Now and then there were parties at the Rectory, with the carpet pushed back for dancing, and Mrs Lefroy at the pianoforte, while Jane and Cassandra peering down the staircase, watched their brothers and their neighbours breathlessly moving up and down the dance in the crowded parlour and hall. And even when there were no visitors, Jane found excitement enough in the books which Mr Austen, James or Henry read aloud in the evening, while Mrs Austen darned stockings in the candlelight. Many a wakeful night Jane spent, wondering how poor Dr Primrose would survive the troubles which beset him in Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, or sympathizing with the predicament of Miss Fanny Burney's heroine . . ."

All the books in the series are preceded by The Young . . . (62 titles):
Alexander the Great - Mitchison, Naomi
Alfred the Great - Mitchison, Naomi
Baden-Powell - Catherall, Arthur
Bernadette - Stafford, Ann
Brontes - Bentley, Phyllis
Byron - Barbary, James
Captain Cook - Knight, Frank
Catherine the Great - Almedingen, E. M.
Charles Darwin - Hope, Charlotte
Charles Lamb - West, Trudy
Cicero - Barbary, James
Columbus - Knight, Frank
David - Groom, Arthur
David Garrick - Weir, Rosemary
Dickens - Pringle, Patrick
Drake - Knight, Frank
Edgar Allan Poe - Cooper, Lettice
Edison - Pringle, Patrick
Eistein - Pringle, Patrick
Elizabeth (Elizabeth the 1st) - Plaidy, Jean
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Abrahall, Clare H.
Elizabeth Fry - Pringle, Patrick
Faraday - Pringle, Patrick
Florence Nightingale - Cooper, Lettice
Gilbert & Sullivan - Harris, Paula
Hans Andersen - Spink, Reginald
Helen Keller - Wymer, Norman
James Barrie - Elder, Michael
Jane Austen - Sisson, Rosemary Anne
John Bunyan - Abrahall, Clare H.
John Wesley - Clifford, Joan
Keats - Hayne, Jean
Lawrence of Arabia - Cadell, James
Leonardo Da Vinci - Almedingen, E. M.
Lewis Carroll - Richardson, Joanna
Livingstone - Pringle, Patrick
Lord Byron - Barbary, James
Louis Braille - Abrahall, Clare H.
Louis Pasteur - Richardson, Joanna
Louisa M. Alcott - Robinson, Martha
Luther - Elder, Michael
Marie Curie - Abrahall, Clare H.
Mary Queen of Scots - Plaidy, Jean
Milton - Hobbs, Mary
Moses - Haughton, Rosemary
Mozart - Jenkins, Alan
Napoleon - Cooper, Leonard
Nelson - Syme, Ronald
Pavlova - Almedingen, E. M.
Robert Bruce - Oliver, Jane
Robert Louis Stevenson - Finlay, Ian
Samual Pepys - Gunston, David
Sarah Bernhardt - Hope, Charlotte
Shakespeare - Sisson, Rosemary Anne
Shelley - Rush, Philip
St. Mark - Haughton, Rosemary
Tennyson - Hope, Charlotte
Thackeray - Curling, Audrey
Thomas More - Haughton, Rosemary
Victoria - Cooper, Lettice
William Booth - Watson, Bernard
Wordsworth - West, Trudy

2005-08-17T19:33:00.006-04:00

Series: Real People - Row Peterson & Company

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

Written by various authors, for ages 6-9, grades 1-4, 37 pages, biographies of people of world history and U.S. history. The books are short biographies that are easily read in a few days or week yet they are well-written. They make great read aloud biographies for the younger grades. They are written by various, excellent authors.

This is most likely not a complete list. There are 48 titles that I know of - I am missing 5 titles for the list and 10 titles to complete my sets.

Titles in series - alphabetical order:
Abigail Adams -Holberg, Ruth Langland (Set 2)
Abraham Lincoln - Cavanah, Frances (Set 4)
Ah-Yo-Ka Daughter of Sequoya - Coblentz, Catherine Cate (Set 3)
Akbar of India - Spencer, Cornelia (Set 6)
Alexander the Great - Blackstock, Josephine (Set 5)
Alfred the Great - Eloise Lownsbery
Benjamin Disraeli - Crandall, Elizabeth L. (Set 8)
Benjamin Franklin - Neildon, Frances Fullerton & Neilson, Winthrop
Caesar Augustus - Williams, Jay (Set 5)
Captain James Cook - Sperry, Armstrong (Set 7)
Captain John Smith - Leighton, Margaret (Set 1)
Charlemagne - Jewett, Eleanore M. (Set 5)
Christopher Columbus - Weir, Ruth Cromer (Set 1)
Daniel Boone - Jeannette Covert Nolan (Set 3)
David Livingstone - Yates, Elizabeth (Set 8)
Father Serra - Condon, Vesta E. (Set 2)
Fredrick the Great - Leighton, Margaret (Set 7)
Florence Nightingale - Caudill, Rebecca (Set 8)
George Washington - Cavanah, Frances (Set 2)
George Washington Carver - ????? (Set 4)
Hernando Desoto - Condon,Vesta E. (Set 1)
Iknaton of Egypt - Enid LaMonte Meadowcraft
James Jerome Hill - Judson, Clara Ingram (Set 3)
James Watt - Nolan, Jeannette Covert (Set 7)
Jane Addams - Blackstock, Josephine (Set 4)
Joan of Arc - Emery, Anne (Set 6)
Johann Gutenberg - Smith, Elwyn A. (Set 6)
John Jacob Aster - Judson, Clara Ingram (Set 3)
John Paul Jones - Weir, Ruth Cromer (Set 2)
Lafayette - Brink, Carol Ryrie (Set 7)
Lasalle - Emerson, Caroline (Set 1)
Leonardo Da Vinci - Crandall, Elizabeth L. (Set 6)
Marco Polo - Weir, Ruth Cromer (Set 5)
Marconi - Cottler, Joseph (Set 8)
Narcissa Whitman, Pioneer to the Oregon Country - Brink, Carol Ryrie (Set 3)
Peter Stuyvesant - Emerson, Caroline (Set 1)
Peter the Great - Seeger, Elizabeth (Set 7)
Prince Henry the Navigator - Nolan, Jeannette Covert (Set 6)
Queen Elizabeth - Nolan, Jeannette Covert (Set 6)
Roald Amundsen - Nolan, Jeannette Covert (Set 8)
Robert E. Lee - Solem, Elizabeth Kinloch (Set 4)
Roger Williams - Cottler, Joseph (Set 1)
Rufus Putnam - Phillips, Josephine E. with Weir, Ruth Cromer
Thomas Alva Edison - ?????? (Set 4)
Simon Bolivar - Judson, Clara Ingram (Set 7)
Sun Yat-Sen - Judson, Clara Ingram (Set 8)
Thomas Jefferson - Cottler, Joseph (Set 2)
Zebulon Pike - Knoop, Faith Yingling (Set 3)

Some times you'll find these in a colored slip case by sets:

Set 1- gray
Christopher Columbus - Weir, Ruth Cromer
Hernando DeSoto - Condon,Vesta E.
LaSalle - Emerson, Caroline
Captain John Smith - Leighton, Margaret
Roger Williams - Cottler, Joseph
Peter Stuyvesant - Emerson, Caroline

Set 2 - navy
George Washington - Cavanah, Frances
Benjamin Franklin - Neildon, Frances Fullerton & Neilson, Winthrop
Thomas Jefferson - Cottler, Joseph
Abigail Adams - Holberg, Ruth Langland
John Paul Jones - Weir, Ruth Cromer
Father Serra - Condon, Vesta E.

Set 3 - dark green
Ah-yo-Ka Daughter of Sequoya - Coblentz, Catherine Cate
Narcissa Whitman, Pioneer to the Oregon Country - Brink, Carol Ryrie
Zebulon Pike - Knoop, Faith Yinglin
Rufus Putnam - Phillips, Josephine E. with Weir, Ruth Cromer
John Jacob Aster - Judson, Clara Ingram
Daniel Boone - Jeannette Covert Nolan

Set 4 - brown
Abraham Lincoln - Cavanah, Frances
Robert E. Lee - Solem, Elizabeth Kinloch
James Jerome Hill - Judson, Clara Ingram
Thomas Alva Edison - ??????
George Washington Carver - ?????
Jane Addams - Blackstock, Josephine

Set 5- light green
Alexander the Great - Blackstock, Josephine
Caesar Augustus - Williams, Jay
Charlemagne - Jewett, Eleanore M.
Marco Polo - Weir, Ruth Cromer
Alfred the Great - Eloise Lownsbery
Iknaton of Egypt - Enid LaMonte Meadowcraft

Set 6 - teal green
Prince Henry the Navigator - Nolan, Jeannette Covert
Johann Gutenberg - Smith, Elwyn A.
Joan of Arc - Emery, Anne
Leonardo Da Vinci - Crandall, Elizabeth L.
Queen Elizabeth - Nolan, Jeannette Covert
Akbar of India - Spencer, Cornelia

Set 7- red
Peter the Great - Seeger, Elizabeth
Captain James Cook - Sperry, Armstrong
Fredrick the Great - Leighton, Margaret
James Watt - Nolan, Jeannette Covert
Lafayette - Brink, Carol Ryrie
Simon Bolivar - Judson, Clara Ingram

Set 8 - light blue
David Livingstone - Yates, Elizabeth
Roald Amundsen - Nolan, Jeanette Covert
Sun Yat-Sen - Judson, Clara Ingram
Benjamin Disraeli - Crandall, Elizabeth L.
Marconi - Cottler, Joseph
Florence Nightingale - Caudill, Rebecca

2005-08-16T19:14:00.006-04:00

Series: Cambridge Introduction to History of Mankind - Cambridge University Press

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

The Cambridge History Library Series was originally published in 1972 by Cambridge University Press as part of The Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind written and was edited by Trevor Cairns. It's for approximately grade levels 4 & up. The books are balanced with a generous amount of black line illustrations, photos and maps along with well written, informative text.

The Cambridge Introduction to History of Mankind - written by Trevor Cairns, 100 pages - a concise introduction and fascinating tour into the past. With maps, photographs, color and black/white drawings the places and artifacts World History are not so far in the distant past.

People Become Civilized, c1974 Lerner Publications, begins with 16 pages of the typical "uncivilized" man (we personally believe humans were civilized from the beginning, that God created humans in His Image) -- ignore/skip over these pages, remove them or read and laugh at them, then use the rest of the detailed information that covers Jericho, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Greece.

People Become Civilized
The Romans and Their Empire
Barbarians, Christians, and Muslims
The Middle Ages
Europe and the World
The Birth of Modern Europe
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Power for the People
Europe Around the World

The Cambridge Topic Books - edited by Trevor Cairns, various authors, 50 pages

In this particular title, The Roman Army, copyright 1977 Lerners Publications, various source material is quoted from letters, speeches, and reports which adds interest and brings the information to life:

"Specialist troops, like all others, had to be trained. And this brings us back to what was said earlier: that careful training was the secret of Roman success."
"We have two accounts of Roman army training written by people alive at the time. The first comes from Lambaesis in Numidia. Here the Third Augustan Legion and several auxiliary regiments were stationed to protect the province against attacks from tribesman from the south. In A.D. 128 the Emperor Hadrian, who traveled all over the empire, inspected the camp. Afterwards Hadrian made a speech. The soldiers had his words carved on a stone pillar, which we have found."

"The tough emperor said to the infantry: ' . . . the building of fortifications which others would have spread over several days, you completed in a single day; you took as much time to build a wall out of heavy stones as most people take to build a wall of light, easily-handled turf. You dug a trench in a straight line in hard gravel and trimmed it smooth. When this work had been approved you went into the camp, collected rations, took up your weapons again and followed the cavalry out as if to a battle.' Hadrian was very pleased with the cavalry. 'You have done the most difficult thing of all, hurling javelins when in full armour . . . Your jumping was lively today and yesterday it was swift. If you had fallen short in anything I would have pointed it out to you, if you had done very well in something I would have said so, but in fact it was the even level of your performance which pleased me . . . ' The emperor finished: 'It is clear that my legate Catullinus takes every care . . . and has left nothing out . . . It is due to the outstanding care which Catullinus has taken that you are what you are today.' "

American War of Independence - Evans, R.E.
Benin: An African Kingdom and Culture
Buddha (The)
Building the Medieval Cathedrals - Watson, Percy
China and Mao Zedong
Christopher Wren and St. Paul's Cathedral
Earliest Farmers and the First Cities - Higham, Charles
Early China and the Wall
First Ships Around the World - Brownlee, W.D.
Ghandhi and the Struggle for India's Independence
Hernan Cortes: Conquistador in Mexico
Industrial Revolution Begins (The) - Vialls, Christine
Life in a Fifteenth-Century Monastery
Life in a Medieval Village - Morgan, Gwyneth
Life in the Iron Age
Life in the Old Stone Age - Higham, Charles
Maoris (The)
Martin Luther
Medieval Knights
Meiji Japan
Murder of Archbishop Thomas - Corfe, Tom
Muslin Spain
Navy That Beat Napoleon (The) - Brownlee, Walter
Parthenon (The) - Woodford Susan
Pompeii - Andrews, Ian
Pyramids (The) - Weeks, John
Roman Army (The) - Wilkes, John
Roman Engineers (The) -
St. Patrick and Irish Christianity
Viking Ships (The)- Atkinson, Ian

2005-08-15T17:47:00.005-04:00

Series: Lerner Archaeology - Lerner Publications Company

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

This series was originally published in 1973 by Lerner Publications Company. It's for approximately grade levels 4 & up (age 10 & up). The books are balanced with a generous amount of black/white and color photographs of artifacts, relics, and maps along with well written, informative text -- makes it "almost" as if you're on a real archaeological dig. If anything, a museum in a book.

Titles is series:

Search for the Past, An Introduction to Archaeology
Pottery in Ancient Times
Ancient Scrolls
Jewelry of the Ancient World
The Art of Mosaics
Coins of the Ancient World
Underwater Archaeology
Introducing Prehistory
Weapons and Warfare in Ancient Times
City Planning in Ancient Times

2005-08-12T16:48:00.009-04:00

Series: The Immortals of - Franklin Watts

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

This series is published by Franklin Watts, Inc., in the 1960's. The reading level is approximately grades 4-8 (ages 9-14) and offers a good variety of people from World History. The narrative reading is interesting and rich with lots of detailed information.
They are also grouped by historians: Immortals of Engineering, Immortals of History, Immortals of Literature, Immortals of Mankind, Immortals of Music, Immortals of Philosophy and Religion, Immortals of Science

This is our copy of the same book from the Franklin Watts series, the Immortals of Science, copyright 1962 by Jeanne Bendick. It has been reprinted by Bethlehem Books.

"When Archimedes returned to Syracuse, his mind was full of the things he had learned in Alexandria. The days did not seem long enough for exploring all the ideas he had, and working out all the proofs. He sat for hours, drawing his diagrams in the sand on the floor of his workroom. Most geometers worked this way in ancient times. They had no pencils or erasers. Papyrus was too scarce to scribble on and throw, and it was difficult to change or correct a diagram cut into a clay tablet.

But if you have ever drawn in the damp sand on the beach, you can see why using the floor was a good, practical idea. Archimedes drew swiftly, and erased by smoothing the sand . . .

Mathematics was the thing Archimedes liked best, and he worked in every kind of mathematics known to the ancient world. He did not, like Euclid, write textbooks for the use of mathematics students. Archimedes wrote brilliant, complicated essays, to be read and studied by the most advanced mathematicians of his time, his friends in Alexandria (Lighthouse of Alexandria). He worked with arithmetic, which studies numbers. All mathematicians need numbers. Everybody needs numbers . . . He worked in trigonometry, which relates distances to directions. Engineers need trigonometry and so do astronomers, navigators, and surveyors . . . Archimedes particularly loved geometry, which is the study of shapes in space . . . "

From Samuel Morse and the Electronic Age , by Wilma Pitchford Hays, copyright 1966, Franklin Watts, Inc.

Chapter 3 The Idea is Born: "Samuel Morse was forty-one and a famous painter when he boarded the packet ship Sully at Le Harve, France, on October 1, 1832, to sail for New York. But the Scully did not depart on schedule. The ship was windbound by a southwestern blowing directly into her teeth, and she could not depart leave port until the sixth of October . . .The delay gave Morse time to become better acquainted with his fellow passengers. Among them were the Honorable William C. Rives, American Ambassador to France, and his family; J.F. Fisher of Philadelphia; and Dr. Charles T. Jackson of Boston. Morse sat at dinner with these me and they discussed the things they had seen and learned in Europe . . .

"Samuel Morse, because of his long interest in the new science of electricity, recognized that it was a great power which no one yet knew how to put to practical use . . . Now when Morse heard Dr. Jackson say that electricity had been seen along a wire whenever the circuit was broken, Morse's mind was excited by an idea so overwhelming that he spoke quickly....
"If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit," he said, "I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity. The other men at the table only nodded and went on talking. Morse saw that not one of them was startled by his words or grasped the idea that raced through his mind. But his artist's imagination was now working at full speed . . . His idea raced in his mind with a great a shock as if electricity had touched him. His heart pounded, and he wanted to get away from the men to a place where he could think alone. He left the dinner table and went on deck and walked back and forth...

"He was shaken by the wonderful possibilities of the thought that had leaped into his mind. Although he knew that most inventors worked for years on an idea before they perfected it, his idea seemed complete and clear to him at that very moment. Could this thought, born so swiftly, be as wonderful and important to the world as he imagined? All his life Samuel Morse believed that God had created the forces of nature for the benefit of man -- if man could only discover how to use them. Now he believed that his idea for instant communication was the right use of electricity and that God had sent the inspiration to him."

Chapter 4 The Inventor's Struggles Begin: "As Morse talked, his whole being seemed filled with goodwill. Robert Rankin felt almost as if he were listening to a prophet, and he was no longer so sure that the professor would not succeed in his plan . . . 'I believe,' Morse said, 'that God created every great force of nature for the welfare of man. Modern science will someday develop every hidden secret of nature to do good to man. I am sure that electricity, harnessed and controlled, will bring more advancement to human sociology than any material force yet known.' Morse leaned forward and spoke so earnestly that his friend had no answer to his words. 'I feel as if I were doing a great work for God's glory as well as man's welfare,' he said, 'and this has been my long-cherished hope.'"

Titles in series with various authors:

Abraham Lincoln - Latham, Frank Brown
Albert Einstein and The Theory of Relativity - Kondo, Herbert
Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery - Dibner, Bern
Alexander The Great - Robinson, Jr., Charles Alexander
Antoine Lavoisier and the Revolution in Chemistry - Marcus, Rebecca B.
Archimedes and the Door of Science - Bendick, Jeanne
Aristotle, Dean of Early Science - Downey, Glanville
Asoka the Great, India's Royal Missionary - Lengyel, Emil
Beethoven, Master Composer - Gimpel, Herbert J.
Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister Extraordinary - Grant, Neil
Bismark and German Unification - Snyder, Louis Leo & Brown, Ida Mae
Captain James Cook, Genius Afloat - Carrison, Daniel J.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Prince of Mathematicians - Schaaf, William Leonard
Carl Linnaeus, Pioneer of Modern Botany - Dickinson, Alice
Charles Darwin & Natural Selection - Dickinson, Alice
Charlemagne, Monarch of the Middle Ages - Stearns, Monroe
Charles Dickens - Haines, Charles
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor - Grant, Neil
Christopher Columbus, Navigator to the New World - Carrison, Daniel J.
Confucius - Sims, Bennett B.
Copernicus, Titan of Modern Astronomy - Knight, David C.
Dante, Poet of Love - Sterns, Monroe
Edward Jenner & Smallpox Vaccination - Eberle, Irmengarde
Eli Whitney, Founder of Modern Industry - Hays, Wilma Pitchford
Elizabeth I of England - Stearns, Monroe
Euclid and Geometry - DeLacy, Estelle Allen
Florence Nightingale, Founder of Modern Nursing - Harmelink, Barbara
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President for the People - Hiebert, Roselyn & Ray Eldon
Frank Lloyd Wright, The Rebel Architect - Naden, Corrine J.
Frederick the Great, Prussian Warrior and Statesman - Snyder, Louis Leo
Frederick II, King of Prussia - Louis L. Snyder and Ida Mae Brown
Galileo and Experimental Science - Marcus, Rebecca B.
Genghis Khan, Conqueror of the Medieval World - Webb, Robert N.
George Washington - Carrison, Daniel J.
Goethe, Pattern of Genius - Stearns, Monroe
Goya and His Times - Stearns, Monroe
Gregor Mendel and Heredity - Webb, Robert N
Hannibal, Invader From Carthage - Webb, Robert N.
Henry Dunant, Father of the Red Cross - Rothkopf, Carol Zeman
Henry VIII of England - Pittenger, W. Norman
Hippocrates, Father of Medicine - Goldberg, Herbert Sam
Humphry Davy and Chemical Discovery - Carrier, Elba O.
Ignace Paderewski, Musician and Statesman - Lengyel, Emil
Ignatius of Loyola, The Soldier-Saint - Liversidge, Douglas
Imhotep, Builder in Stone - Cormack, Maribelle
James Clerk Maxwell and Electromagnatism - May, Charles Paul
James Watt, Inventor of a Steam Engine - Webb, Robert N.
Jawaharlal Nehru, The Brahman From Kashmir - Lengyel, Emil
Jean Henri Dunant, Father of the Red Cross - Rothkopf, Carol Z.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, the Father of Romanticism - Webb, Robert N.
Joan of Arc, Maid of Orleans - Struchen, Jeanette
Johannes Kepler & Planetary Motion - Knight, David C.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Revolutionary of Music - Reingold, Carmel
Joseph Priestly, Pioneer Chemist - Marcus, Rebecca
Joseph Stalin - Liversidge, Douglas
Josiah W. Gibbs, American Theoretical Physicist -Leerburger, Benedict A.
Julius Caesar, Master of Men - Stearns, Monroe
Justinian the Great, Roman Emperor of the East - Fitzgerald, Thomas
Karl Marx, The Father of Modern Socialism - Alexander, Albert
Lajos Kossuth, Hungary's Great Patriot - Lengyel, Emil
Lao-Tzu and the Tao te Ching - Sims, Bennett B.
Lenin, Genius of Revolution - Liversidge, Douglas
Leonardo da Vinci, Pathfinder of Science - Gillette, Henry S.
Leo Tolstoy - Rothkopf, Carol Z.
Life of Jesus Christ (The) - Pittenger, W. Norman
Life of Saint Augustine (The) - Hansel, Robert R.
Life of Saint Paul (The) - Pittenger, W. Norman
Life of Saint Peter (The) - Pittenger, W. Norman
Louis XIV of France, Pattern of Majesty - Stearns, Monroe
Louis Pasteur, Founder of Microbiology - Burton, Mary June
Lord Nelson - Gimpel, Herbert J.
Mahatma Gandhi, The Great Soul - Lengyel, Emil
Marco Polo, The Great Traveler - Webb, Robert N.
Mark Twain - Stearns, Monroe
Martin Luther, The Great Reformer - Pittenger, W. Norman
Michelangelo - Stearns, Monroe
Moses Maimonides: Rabbi, Philosopher, and Physician - Marcus, Rebecca B.
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam - Warren, Ruth.
Napoleon, Man of Destiny - Gimpel, Herbert J.
Pablo Picasso, Master of Modern Art - Struchen, Jeanette
Peter the Great, The Reformer-tsar - Liversidge, Douglas
Philippe Pinel, Unchainer of the Insane - Mackler, Bernard
Plato, His Life and Teachings - Pittenger, W. Norman
Pope John XXIII, The Gentle Shepherd - Struchen, Jeanette
Raphael, Painter of the Renaissance - Gillette, Henry S.
Rembrandt and His World - Sterns, Monroe
Richard the Lion-Hearted, The Crusader King - Pittenger, W. Norman
Richard Wagner; Titan of Music - Stearns, Monroe
Robert Boyle, Founder of Modern Chemistry - Sootin, Harry
Robert Koch, Father of Bacteriology - Knight, David C.
Saint Francis of Assisi - Liversidge, Douglas
Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Angelic Doctor - Pittenger, W. Norman
Samuel Morse and The Electronic Age - Hays, Wilma Pitchford
Sigmund Freud - Klagsbrun, Francine
Simon Bolivar The Liberator - Webb, Robert N
Sir Christopher Wren; Renaissance Architect, Philosopher, and Scientist - Gould, Heywood
Socrates, The Father of Western Philosophy - Turlington, Bayly
Sophocles, The Theban Saga - edited with an introd. by Alexander, Charles
Story of Moses (The) - Klagsbrun, Francine
Thomas Edison, American Inventor - Hiebert, Roselyn and Ray Eldon
Thomas Jefferson, The Complete Man - Eichner, James A.
Victoria, Queen and Empress - Grant, Neil
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen and the Discovery of X rays - Dibner, Bern
William Harvey, Trailblazer of Scientific Medicine - Marcus, Rebecca B.
William Shakespeare and His Plays - Haines, Charles
Winston Churchill, Man of the Century - Webb, Robert N.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Master of Pure Music - Stearns, Monroe
Woodrow Wilson, Champion of Peace - Mothner, Ira
Wright Brothers, Pioneers of Power Flight (The) - Glines, Carroll V.

2005-08-11T16:26:00.005-04:00

Series: Discovery Biography - Garrard Publishing (Garrard Press)

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

These are for ages 7 - 9 (grades 2-4) and have accurate facts about the famous people lives, interesting reading for history study, great introductory biographies, easily read.

Titles in series with various authors:

Abigail Adams, "Dear Partner" - Peterson, Helen Stone
Abraham Lincoln, For the People - Colver, Anne & Graff, Polly Anne
Alexander Graham Bell, Man of Sound - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Amelia Earhart, Pioneer in the Sky - Parlin, John
Andrew Jackson, Pioneer and President - Parlin, John
Annie Oakley, the Shooting Star - Graves, Charles P.
Benjamin Franklin, Man of Ideas - Graves, Charles P.
Booker T. Washington, Leader of His People - Patterson, Lillie
Buffalo Bill, Wild West Showman - Davidson, Mary Richmond
Charles Lindbergh, Hero Pilot - Collins, David R.
Clara Barton, Soldier of Mercy - Rose, Mary Catherine
Daniel Boone, Taming the Wilds - Wilkie, Katherine E.
David Glasgow Farragut, Our First Admiral - Latham, Jean Lee
Davy Crockett, Hero of the Wild Frontier - Mosely, Elizabeth Robards
Dolly Madison, Famous First Lady - Davidson, Mary Richmond
Dorothea L. Dix, Hospital Founder - Malone, Mary
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady Of The World - Graves, Charles P.
Eli Whitney, Great Inventor - Latham, Jean Lee
Elizabeth Blackwell, Pioneer Woman Doctor - Latham, Jean Lee
Ernest Thompson Seton, Scout and Naturalist - Blassingame, Wyatt
Florence Nightingale, War Nurse - Colver, Anne & Graff, Polly Anne
Francis Marion, Swamp Fox of the Carolinas - Carmer, Elizabeth and Carl
Francis Scott Key, Poet and Patriot - Patterson, Lillie
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Times President - Blassingame, Wyatt
Frederick Douglass, Freedom Fighter - Patterson, Lillie
George Rogers Clark, Frontier Fighter - deLeeuw, Adele
George Washington Carver, Negro Scientist - Epstein. Samuel and Beryl
George Washington, Father of Freedom - Graff, Stewart
George W. Goethals, Panama Canal Engineer - Latham, Jean Lee
Harry S. Truman, People's President - Collins, David
Helen Keller, Toward the Light - Graff, Stewart and Polly Anne
Henry Clay, Leader in Congress - Peterson, Helen Stone
Henry Hudson, Captain of the Ice Bound Seas - Carmer, Carl
Jane Addams, Pioneer of Hull House - Peterson, Helen
Jed Smith, Trailblazer and Trapper - Latham, Frank Brown
Jim Beckwourth, Black Trapper and Indian Chief - Blassingame, Wyatt
Jim Bridger, Man of the Mountains - Luce, Willard and Celia
John James Audubon, Bird Artist - Ayars, James Sterling
John Paul Jones, Sailor Hero - Graff, Stewart
John F. Kennedy, New Frontiersman - Graves, Charles P.
John Muir, Friend of Nature - Clark, Margaret Goff
John Smith, A World Explorer - Graves, Charles P.
Kit Carson, Pathfinder to the West - Campion, Nardi (Reeder)
Lafayette, French-American Hero - Bishop, Claire Huchet
Leif the Lucky, Discoverer of America - Berry, Erick
Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii - Malone, Mary
Linda Richards, First American Trained Nurse - Collins, David R.
Lucretia Mott, Foe of Slavery - Faber, Doris
Luther Burbank, Partner of Nature - Faber, Doris
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Oregon Pioneers - Place, Marian T.
Maria Mitchell, Stargazer - Wilkie, Katharine E.
Martha Washington, First Lady of the Land - Anderson, LaVere
Mary McLeod Bethune, Teacher with a Dream - Anderson, LaVere
Mary Todd Lincoln, President's Wife - Anderson, Lavere
P. T. Barnum, King of the Circus - Groh, Lynn
Paul Revere, Rider for Liberty - Graves, Charles P.
Rachel Carson, Who Loved the Sea - Latham, Jean Lee
Richard E. Byrd, Adventurer to the Poles - deLeeuw, Adele
Ringling Brothers, The, Circus Family - Glendinning, Richard and Sally
Robert E. Lee, Hero of the South - Graves, Charles P.
Robert E. Peary, North Pole Conqueror - Berry, Erick
Robert H. Goddard, Space Pioneer - Lomask, Milton
Robert Fulton, Steamboat Builder - Henry, Joanne Landers
Sacagawea, Indian Guide - Blassingame, Wyatt
Sam Houston, Hero of Texas - Latham, Jean Lee
Samuel F. B. Morse, Artist-Inventor - Latham, Jean Lee
Stephen Decatur, Fighting Sailor - Blassingame, Wyatt
Tad Lincoln, Abe's Son - Lavere, Anderson
Theodore Roosevelt, Man of Action - Beach, James C.
Thomas Alva Edison, Miracle Maker - Kaufman, Mervyn D.
Thomas Jefferson, Author of Independence - Colver, Ann & Graff, Polly Anne
Ulysses S. Grant, Horseman and Fighter - Reeder, Colonel Red
William Penn, Friend to All - Wilkie, Katherine E.
Wright Brothers, The Kings of the Air - Kaufman, Mervyn D.

Native Americans:
Chief Joseph, Guardian of His People - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Chief Seattle, Great Statesman - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Crazy Horse, Sioux Warrior - Meadowcroft, Enid LaMonte
Massasoit, Friend of the Pilgrims - Voight, Virginia E.
Pontiac, Mighty Ottawa Chief - Voight, Virginia F.
Red Cloud, Sioux War Chief - Voight, Virginia F.
Sitting Bull, Great Sioux Chief - Anderson, Lavere

Americans All Series:
Adam Bradford, Cowboy - Russell, Don
Alan Pinkerton, First Private Eye - Anderson, LaVere
Andrew Carnegie, Giant of Industry - Malone, Mary
Benjamin Banneker, Astronomer and Scientist - Clark, Margaret Goff
Cesar Chavez, Man of Courage - White, Florence Meiman
Coretta Scott King- Patterson, Lillie
Duke Ellington, King of Jazz - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Enrico Fermi, Father of Atomic Power - Epstein, Sam and Beryl
Father Flanagan, Founder of Boys Town - Graves, Charles Parlin
Gordon Parks, Black Photographer and Film Maker - Harnan, Terry
Grandma Moses, Favorite Painter - Graves, Charles Parlin
Harriet Tubman, Guide to Freedom - Epstein, Sam and Beryl
Harry Houdini, Master of Magic - Kraske, Robert
Henry Ford, Automotive Pioneer - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Jacqueline Cochrane, First Lady of Flight - Fisher, Marquita O.
Jake Gaither, Winning Coach - Blassingame, Wyatt
Jim Thorpe, All Around Athlete - Sullivan, George
Juliette Low, Girl Scout Founder - Radford, Ruby L.
Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's Football Great - Sullivan, George
Lou Gehrig, Iron Man of Baseball - Luce, Willard and Celia
Louis Armstrong, Ambassador Satchmo - Cornell, Jean Gay
Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel Song - Cornell, Jean Gay
Malcolm X, Black and Proud - White, Florence Meiman
Martin Luther King, Jr., Man of Peace - Patterson, Lillie
Milton Hershey, Chocolate King - Malone, Mary
Nellie Bly, Reporter for the World - Graves, Charles Parlin
Phillis Wheatley, America's First Black Poetess - Fuller, Miriam Morris
Quanah Parker, Indian Warrior for Peace - Anderson, LaVere
Ralph Bunche, Champion of Peace - Cornell, Jean Gay
Robert F. Kennedy, Man Who Dared to Dream - Graves, Charles Parlin
Sojourner Truth, Fearless Crusader - Peterson, Helen Stone
Susan B. Anthony, Pioneer in Women's Rights - Peterson, Helen Stone
Walt Disney, Master of Make-believe - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Walter Reed, Pioneer in Medicine - Groh, Lynn
Whitney Young, Jr., Crusader for Equality - Mann, Peggy
Will Rogers, Cowboy Philosopher - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
William Beebe, Underwater Explorer - Blassingame, Wyatt

Colony Leaders Series:
Anne Hutchinson - Faber, Doris
William Bradford - Graves, Charles Parlin
James Edward Oglethorpe - Radford, Ruby and Graves, Charles Parlin
Roger Williams - Peterson, Helen Stone

World Explorers Series:
Amerigo Vespucci - Knoop, Faith Yingling
Christopher Columbus - Kaufman, Mervyn D.
Ferdinand Magellan - Groh, Lynn
Francisco Coronado - Knoop, Faith Yingling
Fridtjof Nansen - Berry, Erick
Henry Morton Stanley - Graves, Charles Parlin
Hernando Cortez - Graff, Stewart
Hernando De Soto - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
James Cook - deLeeuw, Adele
John Smith - Graves, Charles P.
Lewis and Clark - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Marco Polo - Graves, Charles P.
Ponce de Leon - Blassingame, Wyatt
Roald Amundsen - deLeeuw, Cateau
Robert Falcon Scott - Bristow, Joan
Sir Edmund Hillary - Knoop, Faith Yingling
Sir Francis Drake - Foster, John T.
Sir Walter Raleigh - deLeeuw, Adele
Vasco Nunez de Balboa - Knoop, FaithYingling

2005-08-10T16:16:00.005-04:00

Series: How They Lived - Garrard Publishing (Garrard Press)

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

Garrard's How They Lived series is designed to enrich the study of American history, has captured all the strength and enthusiasm of the men and women of all races and cultures who worked together to build a city that would be worthy of the great nation they believed America would become -- a place that would remind Americans of the noble ideals and proud history of their republic ... Careful selected period prints and engravings and color illustrations enliven the text.

Taken from Mr. Jefferson's Washington:

"Mr. Jefferson's Washington was a place of great natural beauty but the new "Federal City" to which Jefferson and the congress moved in 1800 was little more than a handful of buildings joined by muddy lanes . . .

. . . In colorful scenes based on firsthand source material the author has brought to life again the rugged days that moved the dream of a national capital city toward reality. We see the senators struggle through waste fields of mud, watch the fire brigade pass leather buckets of water to save the Treasury Building, and crowd in with the spectators to hear President Adams address the congress."

Unfortunately, L'Enfant soon ran into trouble with the commissioners. He was temperamental and high-handed, determined to let nothing interfere with his plan. The commissioners were practical men, beset with money problems. The money that Maryland and Virginia had given them was fast running out. They had a hard time finding buyers for the city lots, and Congress had no money to give them. Reluctantly, Washington agreed to discharge the French engineer-architect who had drawn up such an inspired and brilliant plan for the nation's capitol."

"Ellicott, the surveyor, took his place, but he could not match L'Enfant's training or genius. And soon he also quarreled with the commissioners, but not before they had shown him the designs for the Capitol and for the President's House. These had been chosen in a nationwide contest. James Hoban, and Irish-born architect living in South Carolina, had won a fine gold medal worth $500 for designing the President's House; and Dr. William Thorton, a Philadelphia physician and amateur architect born in the West Indies, had won $500 cash for designing the Capitol."

Titles in the series with various authors:

Bent's Fort, Crossroads of the Great West - Blassingame, Wyatt
Brave Balloonists, America's First Airmen - Douty, Esther M.
Circus Days Under the Big Top - Glendinning, Richard
Flatboat Days on Frontier Rivers - McCague, James
Lumberjacks of the North Woods - Patterson, Lillie
Mississippi Steamboat Days - McCague, James
Mr. Jefferson's Washington - Douty, Esther M.
New Amsterdam, Old Holland in the New World - Emerson, Caroline
Old Ben Franklin's Philadelphia - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
Pilgrims, The, Brave Settlers of Philadelphia - Groh, Lynn
Stagecoach Days and Stagecoach Kings - Voight, Virginia
Sutter's Fort, Empire on the Sacramento - Luce, Willard and Celia
When Americans Came to New Orleans - Cavanah, Frances
When a Ton of Gold Reached Seattle - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
When Cape Cod Men Saved Lives - Janes, Edward C.
When Chicago Was Young - McCague, James
When Clipper Ships Ruled the Seas - McCague, James
When Cowboys Rode the Chisholm Trail - McCague, James
When Jamestown was a Colonial Capital - Andrews, Mary Evans
When Men First Flew - McCague, James
When Men Panned Gold in the Klondike - Janes, Edward C.
When Mountain Men Trapped Beaver - Glendinning, Richard
When Nantucket Men Went Whaling - Meadowcroft, Enid LaMonte
When Pioneers Pushed West to Oregon - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
When the Rails Ran West - McCague, James
When Wagon Trains Rolled to Santa Fe - Berry, Erick
Young Paul Revere's Boston - Epstein, Samuel and Beryl

2005-08-09T11:18:00.006-04:00

Series: What is . . .? - Benefic Press

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

What is . . . ? series - published by Benefic Press, for approximately ages 7-9, grades PreK-4, 48 pages. This series is an older series originally published in the 1950's-60's. It's one of our favorite older series. Science books that start with questions are the book we try to find because they encourage observation and accuracy of detail. These books are well written and have more detail and words than you find in most newer books. The books are for various levels or grades but they don't talk down to children. The What is . . . ? series is an excellent resource covering basic science by asking simple questions. The illustrations are watercolor-like, some times two-toned, muted color and done by various artists of those years: William Tanis, Berthold Tiedemann, Gregory Orloff, and our favorite-Lucy and John Hawkinson.

Titles in the series with various authors:
What is a Bee?
What is a Bird?
What is a Butterfly?
What is a Cell?
What is a Chicken?
What is a Cow?
What is a Dinosaur?
What is a Fish?
What is a Frog?
What is a Human?
What is a Machine?
What is a Magnet?
What is a Plant?
What is a Rock?
What is a Rocket?
What is a Rodent?
What is a Season?
What is a Simple Machine?
What is a Solar System?
What is a Star?
What is a Tree?
What is a Turtle?
What is an Atom?
What is an Insect?
What is Air?
What is Chemistry?
What is Electricity?
What is Electronic Communication?
What is Energy?
What is Gravity?
What is Heat?
What is Light?
What is Matter?
What is Soil?
What is Sound?
What is Space?
What is Water?
What is Weather?
What is the Earth?

2005-08-08T21:10:00.089-04:00

Series: Signature Books Grosset & Dunlap Publishers

These are NOT for sale, they are pictures of the various editions, covers and Signature Series logo to help with identifying the Signature Series.

This is a cloth cover, hardback with the Signature Book logo on the cover, this logo includes Ben Franklin's name.

The cloth cover came with Dust Jackets but the DJ was not with this copy when I purchased it..

The inside front and back end papers will some times be a decorative pictorial Time Line.

This is the Signature Book logo found inside the books, some times at the back of the book with a list of titles in the series.

This is rebound hardcover copy.

The name of the person that the book is about is sometimes put on the Signature Book logo found inside. This is the title page from the Theodore Roosevelt book.

2005-08-05T17:53:00.004-04:00

Series: Landmark - Random House - Alphabetical Order

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

Landmarks (122) plus World Landmarks (63) in alphabetical order (total of 185) with the book number listed after the author in parentheses. I have noted which titles are RARE and SCARCE

See Numerical Order here & photos of covers and logo
See Landmark Chronological Order here
Here's an interesting newspaper aticle written about the Landmark series: Book Series Claims Youngster's Interest, October 7, 1953

Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House - North, Sterling (61)
Adventures & Discoveries of Marco Polo - Walsh, Richard J. (W-3)
Adventures of Ulysses - Gottlieb, Gerald (W-40)
Alaska Gold Rush - McNeer, May (92)
Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr by - Crouse, Anna & Russell (85)
Alexander the Great - Gunther, John (W-2)
American Revolution - Bliven, Jr., Bruce (83)
Americans Into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury - Gurney, Gene (101)
America's First World War: General Pershing - Castor, Henry (77)
Andrew Carnegie & the Age of Steel - Shippen, Katherine B. (80)
Balboa: Swordsman & Conquistador - Riesenberg, Felix (W-25)
Barbary Pirates - Forester, C. S. (31)
Battle for Iwo Jima - Leckie, Robert (118) RARE
Battle for the Atlantic - Williams, Jay (87)
Battle of Britain - Reynolds, Quentin (W-10)
Battle of the Bulge - Toland, John (114) RARE
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia - Cousins, Margaret (28)
Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel - Comay, Joan (W-62) RARE
Betsy Ross & the Flag - Mayer, Jane (26)
Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show - Havighurst, Walter (73) SCARCE
Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad - Nathan, Adele (9)
California Gold Rush - McNeer, May (6)
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas - Sperry, Armstrong (W-19)
Captain Cortes Conquers Mexico - Johnson, William (W-45)
Catherine the Great - Scherman, Katherine (W-29) SCARCE
Chief of the Cossacks - Lamb, Harold (W-39)
Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross - Boylston, Helen (58)
Cleopatra of Egypt - Hornblow, Leonora (W-50) SCARCE
Clipper Ship Days - Jennings, John (22)
Combat Nurses of World War II - Blassingame, Wyatt (116) SCARCE
Coming of the Mormons - Kjelgaard, Jim (37)
Commandos of World War II - Carter, Hodding (W-61)
Commodore Perry & the Opening of Japan - Kuhn, Ferdinand (56)
Conquest of the North & South Poles - Owen, Russell (27)
Copper Kings of Montana - Place, Marian T. (95)
Crusades - West, Anthony (W-11)
Custer's Last Stand - Reynolds, Quentin (20)
Daniel Boone: The Opening of the Wilderness - Brown, John Mason (21)
Davy Crockett - Holbrook, Stewart H. (57) SCARCE
Disaster at Johnstown: the Great Flood - Dolson, Hildegarde (109) RARE
Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever - Hill, Ralph Nading (78) RARE
Dolly Madison - Mayer, Jane (47)
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Moos, Malcom (108)
Early Days of Automobiles - Janeway, Elizabeth (68)
Erie Canal - Adams, Samuel Hopkins (34)
Ethan Allen & the Green Mountain Boys - Brown, Slater (66)
Evangeline & the Acadians - Tallant, Robert (74) SCARCE
Exploits of Xenophon - Household, Geoffrey (W-18) RARE
Explorations of Pere Marquette - Kjelgaard, Jim (17)
Exploring the Himalaya - Douglas, William O. (W-36)
Fall of Constantinople - Kielty, Bernadine (W-30) SCARCE
Famous Pirates of the New World - Whipple, A. B. C. (W-35)
F.B.I. - Reynolds, Quentin (46)
Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner - Pond, Seymour Gates (W-31)
First Men in the World - White, Anne Terry (W-1)
First Overland Mail - Pinkerton, Robert (40)
First Transatlantic Cable - Nathan, Adele Gutman (88)
Flat Top: Story of Aircraft Carriers - Castillo, Edmund (121) RARE
Flight and Adventures of Charles II - Norman, Charles (W-38)
Florence Nightingale - Hume, Ruth Fox (W-46) SCARCE
Flying Aces of World War I - Gurney, Gene (W-60) SCARCE
Flying Tigers - Toland, John (105) SCARCE
French Foreign Legion - Blassingame, Wyatt (W-22)
From Casablanca to Berlin - Bliven, Jr., Bruce (112) SCARCE
From Pearl Harbor To Okinawa - Bliven, Jr., Bruce (94)
Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy - Davenport, Marcia (W-32)
General Brock and Niagara Falls - Adams, Samuel Hopkins (W-28) SCARCE
Genghis Kahn & the Mongol Horde - Lamb, Harold (W-12)
George Washington Carver - White, Anne Terry (38)
George Washington: Frontier Colonel - North, Sterling (71)
Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath - Moody, Ralph (81)
Gettysburg - Kantor, MacKinlay (23)
Golden Age of Railroads - Holbrook, Stewart H. (93)
Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II - Loomis, Robert D. (96)
Great Men of Medicine - Hume, Ruth Fox (W-49) SCARCE
Guadalcanal Diary - Tregaskis, Richard (55)
Hawaii, Gem of the Pacific - Lewis, Oscar (49)
Hero of Trafalgar - Whipple, A. B. C. (W-55)
Heroines of the Early West - Ross, Nancy Wilson (91) SCARCE
Hudson's Bay Company - Morenus, Richard (W-24)
Jesus of Nazareth - Fosdick, Harry Emerson (W-42) SCARCE
Joan of Arc - Ross, Nancy Wilson (W-4)
John F. Kennedy & PT 109 - Tregaskis, Richard (99)
John James Audubon - Kieran, Margaret & John (48)
John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor - Sperry, Armstrong (39)
Julius Caesar - Gunther, John (W-43)
King Arthur & His Knights - Robinson, Mabel Louise (W-5)
Kit Carson & the Wild Frontier - Moody, Ralph (53)
Landing of the Pilgrims - Daugherty, James (2)
Lawrence of Arabia - MacLean, Alistair (W-52)
Lee and Grant at Appomattox - Kantor, MacKinlay (8)
Leonardo da Vinci - Hahn, Emily (W-27) SCARCE
Lewis and Clark Expedition - Neuberger, Richard L. (15)
Life of Saint Patrick - Reynolds, Quentin (W-17)
Life of Saint Paul - Fosdick, Harry Emerson (W-53) RARE
Lincoln & Douglas: The Years of Decision - Kelly, Regina Z. (44)
Louisiana Purchase - Tallant, Robert (24)
Magna Charta - Daugherty, James (W-26) SCARCE
Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen - Buck, Pearl S. (W-9)
Marie Antoinette - Kielty, Bernadine (W-20) SCARCE
Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword for Freedom - Carter, Hodding (W-34)
Martin Luther - Fosdick, Harry Emerson (W-23) RARE
Mary, Queen of Scots - Hahn, Emily (W-6) SCARCE
Medal of Honor Heroes - Reeder, Colonel Red (111) SCARCE
Medical Corps Heros of World War II - Blassingame, Wyatt (120) RARE
Midway Battle for the Pacific - Castillo, Edmund (119) SCARCE
Mississippi Bubble - Costain, Thomas B. (52)
Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone - Shippen, Katherine B. (30)
Monitor and the Merrimac - Pratt, Fletcher (16)
Mysterious Voyages of Captain Kidd - Whipple, A.B.C. (122) RARE
Napoleon & the Battle of Waterloo - Winwar, Frances (W-7)
Old Ironsides, the Fighting Constitution - Hansen, Harry (51)
Our Independence and the Constitution - Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (5)
Panama Canal - Considine, Bob (18)
Paul Revere & the Minute Men - Fisher , Dorothy Canfield (4)
Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York - Crouse, Anna & Russell (43)
Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt - Payne, Elizabeth (W-59) SCARCE
Pirate Lafitte & the Battle of New Orleans - Tallant, Robert (19)
Pocahontas & Captain John Smith - Lawson, Marie (3)
Pony Express - Adams, Samuel Hopkins (7)
Prehistoric America - White, Anne Terry (11)
Queen Elizabeth & the Spanish Armada - Winwar, Frances (W-13)
Queen Victoria - Streatfeild, Noel (W-37) SCARCE
Remember the Alamo! - Warren, Robert Penn (79)
Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler - Shirer, William L. (W-47)
Robert E. Lee & the Road of Honor - Carter, Hodding (54)
Robert Fulton & the Steamboat - Hill, Ralph Nading (45)
Rogers' Rangers & the French & Indian War - Smith, Bradford (63) SCARCE
Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Neuberger, Richard L. (W-8)
Sam Houston, The Tallest Texan - Johnson, William (32)
Santa Fe Trail - Adams, Samuel Hopkins (13)
Seabees of World War II - Castillo, Edmund (103)
Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees - Marriott, Alice (65)
Simon Bolivar, the Great Liberator - Whitridge, Arnold (W-14) SCARCE
Sinking of the Bismarck - Shirer, William L. (W-51)
Slave Who Freed Haiti: The Story of Toussaint Louverture - Scherman, Katherine (W-15)
Stonewall Jackson (The) - Daniels, Jonathan (86)
Story of Albert Schweitzer (The) - Daniel, Anita (W-33)
Story of Atomic Energy (The) - Fermi, Laura (W-48)
Story of Australia (The) - Day, A. Grove (W-44)
Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944 (The) - Bliven, Jr., Bruce (62)
Story of Oklahoma (The) - Tinkle, Lon (100)
Story of San Francisco (The) - Jackson, Charlotte (59)
Story of Scotland Yard (The) - Thompson, Laurence (W-16)
Story of Submarines (The) - Weller, George (102)
Story of the Naval Academy (The) - Riesenberg, Jr., Felix (84)
Story of the Paratroops (The) - Weller, George (82)
Story of the Secret Service (The) - Kuhn, Ferdinand (75)
Story of the Thirteen Colonies (The) - Alderman, Clifford Lindse (115) RARE
Story of the U.S. Air Force (The) - Loomis, Robert (89)
Story of the U.S. Coast Guard - Rachlis, Eugene (97)
Story of the U.S. Marines (The) - Hunt, George (14)
Story of Thomas Alva Edison (The) - Cousins, Margaret (110) RARE
Swamp Fox of the Revolution (The) - Holbrook, Stewart H. (90)
Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders - Castor, Henry (41)
Texas Rangers - Henry, Will (72)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Lawson, Ted & Considine, Bob (35)
Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy - Sheean, Vincent (36)
Tippecanoe & Tyler, Too! - Young, Stanley (76) RARE
To California by Covered Wagon - Stewart, George R. (42)
Trappers & Traders of the Far West - Daugherty, James (29)
United Nations in War and Peace - Fehrenback, T. R. (W-63) RARE
U.S. Border Patrol - Hellyer, Clement (104)
U.S. Frogmen of World War II - Blassingame, Wyatt (106)
Up the Trail From Texas - Dobie, J. Frank (60)
Vikings - Janeway, Elizabeth (12)
Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Sperry, Armstrong (1)
Voyages of Henry Hudson - Rachlis, Eugene (W-54)
Walk in Space: The Story of Project Gemini - Gurney, Gene (117) SCARCE
Walter Raleigh - Buckmaster, Henrietta (W-58)
War Chief of the Seminoles - McNeer, May (50)
War in Korea: 1950 - 1953 - Leckie, Robert (W-57)
West Point Story - Reeder, Col. Red & Campion, Nardi Reeder (70)
Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West - Holbrook, Stewart H. (25)
Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater - White, Anne Terry (W-21) SCARCE
William Penn: Quaker Hero - Dolson, Hildegarde (98)
William the Conqueror - Costain, Thomas B. (W-41) SCARCE
Winston Churchill - Reynolds, Quentin (W-56) SCARCE
Winter at Valley Forge - Mason, Van Wyck (33)
Witchcraft of Salem Village - Jackson, Shirley (69)
Women of Courage - Nathan, Dorothy (107) SCARCE
World's Greatest Showman: P.T. Barnum - Bryan, III, Joe (64)
Wright Brothers - Reynolds, Quentin (10)
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall - Holbrook, Stewart H. (67)
Young Mark Twain & the Mississippi - Kane, Harnett T. (113) RARE

Updated June 2011

2005-08-04T17:23:00.002-04:00

Series: Landmark - Random House - Numerical Order

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

UNITED STATES HISTORY LANDMARK BOOKS, numerical order:

Landmark book with dust jacket, the Landmark series logo in top right corner, this logo makes the series easy to recognize.

the Landmark series logo from inside a book

the Landmark series logo from top right corner of a dust jacket

the front of a cloth cover Landmark book without the dust jacket

1. The Voyages of Christopher Columbus - Sperry, Armstrong
2. The Landing of the Pilgrims - Daugherty, James
3. Pocahontas & Captain John Smith - Lawson, Marie
4. Paul Revere & the Minute Men - Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
5. Our Independence and the Constitution - Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
6. The California Gold Rush - McNeer, May
7. The Pony Express - Adams, Samuel Hopkins
8. Lee and Grant at Appomattox - Kantor, MacKinlay
9. The Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad - Nathan, Adele
10. The Wright Brothers - Reynolds, Quentin
11. Prehistoric America - White, Anne Terry
12. The Vikings - Janeway, Elizabeth
13. The Santa Fe Trail - Adams, Samuel Hopkins
14. The Story of the U.S. Marines - Hunt, George
15. The Lewis and Clark Expedition - Neuberger, Richard L.
16. The Moniter and the Merrimac - Fletcher Pratt
17. The Explorations of Pere Marquette - Kjelgaard, Jim
18. The Panama Canal - Considine, Bob
19. The Pirate Lafitte & the Battle of New Orleans - Tallant, Robert
20. Custer's Last Stand - Reynolds, Quentin
21. Daniel Boone - Brown, John Mason
22. Clipper Ship Days - Jennings, John
23. Gettysburg - Kantor, MacKinlay
24. The Louisiana Purchase - Tallant, Robert
25. Wild Bill Hickok Tames the West - Holbrook, Stewart H.
26. Betsy Ross & the Flag - Mayer, Jane
27. The Conquest of the North & South Poles - Owen, Russell
28. Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia - Cousins, Margaret
29. Trappers & Traders of the Far West - Daugherty, James
30. Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone - Shippen, Katherine B.
31. The Barbary Pirates - Forester, C. S.
32. Sam Houston, The Tallest Texan - Johnson, William
33. The Winter at Valley Forge - Mason, Van Wyck
34. The Erie Canal - Adams, Samuel Hopkins
35. Thrity Seconds Over Tokyo - Lawson, Ted & Considine, Bob
36. Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy - Sheean, Vincent
37. Coming of the Mormons - Kjelgaard, Jim
38. George Washington Carver - White, Anne Terry
39. John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor - Sperry, Armstrong
40. The First Overland Mail - Pinkerton, Robert
41. Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders - Castor, Henry
42. To California by Covered Wagon - Stewart, George R.
43. Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York - Crouse, Anna & Russell
44. Lincoln & Douglas: The Years of Decision - Kelly, Regina Z.
45. Robert Fulton & the Steamboat - Hill, Ralph Nading
46. The F.B.I. - Reynolds, Quentin
47. Dolly Madison - Mayer, Jane
48. John James Audubon - Kieran, Margaret & John
49. Hawaii, Gem of the Pacific - Lewis, Oscar
50. War Chief of the Seminoles - McNeer, May
51. Old Ironsides, the Fighting Constitution - Hansen, Harry
52. The Mississippi Bubble - Costain, Thomas B.
53. Kit Carson & the Wild Frontier - Moody, Ralph
54. Robert E. Lee & the Road of Honor - Carter, Hodding
55. Guadalcanal - Tregaskis, Richard
56. Commodore Perry & the Opening of Japan - Kuhn, Ferdinand
57. Davy Crockett - Holbrook, Stewart H.
58. Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross - Boylston, Helen
59. The Story of San Francisco - Jackson, Charlotte
60. Up the Trail From Texas - Dobie, J. Frank
61. Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House - North, Sterling
62. The Story of D-Day: June 6, 1944 - Bliven Jr., Bruce
63. Rogers' Rangers & the French & Indian War - Smith, Bradford
64. The World's Greatest Showman: P.T. Barnum - Bryan III, Joe
65. Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees - Marriott, Alice
66. Ethan Allen & the Green Mountain Boys - Brown, Slater
67. Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshall - Holbrook, Stewart H.
68. The Early Days of Automobiles - Janeway, Elizabeth
69. The Witchcraft of Salem Village - Jackson, Shirley
70. The West Point Story - Reeder, Col. Red & Campion, Nardi Reeder
71. George Washington: Frontier Colonel - North, Sterling
72. The Texas Rangers - Henry, Will
73. Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show - Havighurst, Walter
74. Evageline & the Acadians - Tallant, Robert
75. The Story of the Secret Service - Kuhn, Ferdinand
76. Tippecanoe & Tyler, Too! - Young, Stanley
77. America's First World War: General Pershing - Castor, Henry
78. The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever - Hill, Ralph Nading
79. Remember the Alamo! - Warren, Robert Penn
80. Andrew Carnegie & the Age of Steel - Shippen, Katherine B.
81. Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath - Moody, Ralph
82. The Story of the Paratroops - Weller, George
83. The American Revolution - Bliven Jr., Bruce
84. The Story of the Naval Academy - Riesenberg Jr., Felix
85. Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr - Crouse, Anna & Russell
86. Stonewall Jackson - Daniels, Jonathan
87. The Battle for the Atlantic - Williams, Jay
88. The First Transatlantic Cable - Nathan, Adele Gutman
89. The Story of the Air Force - Loomis, Robert
90. The Swamp Fox of the Revolution - Holbrook, Stewart H.
91. Heroines of the Early West - Ross, Nancy Wilson
92. The Alaska Gold Rush - McNeer, May
93. The Golden Age of Railroads - Holbrook, Stewart H.
94. From Pearl Harbor To Okinawa - Bliven Jr., Bruce
95. The Copper Kings of Montana - Place, Marian T.
96. Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II - Loomis, Robert D.
97. The Story of the U.S. Coast Guard - Rachlis, Eugene
98. William Penn: Quaker Hero - Dolson, Hildegarde
99. John F. Kennedy & PT 109 - Tregaskis, Richard
100. The Story of Oklahoma - Tinkle, Lon
101. Americans Into Orbit: The Story of Project Mercury - Gurney, Gene
102. The Story of Submarines - Weller, George
103. The Seabees of World War II - Castillo, Edmund
104. The U.S. Border Patrol - Hellyer, Clement
105. The Flying Tigers - Toland, John
106. The U.S. Frogmen of World War II - Blassingame, Wyatt
107. Women of Courage - Nathan, Dorothy
108. Dwight D. Eisenhower - Moos, Malcom
109. Diasater at Johnstown: the Great Flood - Dolson, Hildegarde
110. The Story of Thomas Alva Edison - Cousins, Margaret
111. Medal of Honor Heroes - Reeder, Colonel Red
112. From Casablanca to Berlin - Bliven, Jr., Bruce
113. Young Mark Twain & the Mississippi - Kane, Harnett T.
114. The Battle of the Bulge - Toland, John
115. The Story of the Thirteen Colonies - Alderman, Clifford Lindse
116. Combat Nurses of World War II - Blassingame, Wyatt
117. Walk in Space: the Story of Project Gemini - Gurney, Gene
118. The Battle for Iwo Jima - Leckie, Robert
119. Midway, Battle for the Pacific - Castillo, Captain Edmund L.
120. Medical Corps Heros of World War II - Blassingame, Wyatt
121. Flat Tops: Story of Aircraft Carriers - Castillo, Edmund
122. The Mysterious Voyage of Captain Kidd - Whipple, A. B. C.

WORLD HISTORY LANDMARK BOOKS, numerical order:

World Landmark with dust jacket, the World Landmark series logo in top right corner, this logo makes the series easy to recognize.

the Landmark series logo from top right corner of a dust jacket

the Landmark series logo from inside book

the front of a cloth cover World Landmark book without the dust jacket

1. The First Men in the World - White, Anne Terry
2. Alexander the Great - Gunther, John
3. Adventures & Discoveries of Marco Polo - Walsh, Richard J.
4. Joan of Arc - Ross, Nancy Wilson
5. King Arthur & His Knights - Robinson, Mabel Louise
6. Mary, Queen of Scots -
7. Napoleon & the Battle of Waterloo - Winwar, Frances
8. Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Neuberger, Richard L.
9. The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen - Buck, Pearl S.
10. The Battle of Britain - Reynolds, Quentin
11. The Crusades - West, Anthony
12. Genghis Kahn & the Mongol Horde - Lamb, Harold
13. Queen Elizabeth & the Spanish Armada - Winwar, Frances
14. Simon Bolivar, the Great Liberator - Whitridge, Arnold
15. The Slave Who Freed Haiti: The Story of Toussaint Louverture - Scherman, Katherine
16. The Story of Scotland Yard - Thompson, Laurence
17. The Life of Saint Patrick - Reynolds, Quentin
18. The Exploits of Xenophon - Household, Geoffrey
19. Captain Cook Explores the South Seas - Sperry, Armstrong
20. Marie Antoinette - Kielty, Bernadine
21. Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater - White, Anne Terry
22. The French Foreign Legion - Blassingame, Wyatt
23. Martin Luther - Fosdick, Harry Emerson
24. The Hudson's Bay Company - Morenus, Richard
25. Balboa: Swordsman & Conquistador - Riesenberg, Felix
26. The Magna Charta - Daugherty, James
27. Leonardo da Vinci - Hahn, Emily
28. General Brock and Niagara Falls - Adams, Samuel Hopkins
29. Catherine the Great - Scherman, Katherine
30. The Fall of Constantinople - Kielty, Bernadine
31. Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner - Pond, Seymour Gates
32. Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy - Davenport, Marcia
33. The Story of Albert Schweitzer - Daniel, Anita
34. The Marquis de Lafayette: Bright Sword of Freedom - Carter, Hodding
35. Famous Pirates of the New World - Whipple, A. B. C.
36. Exploring the Himalaya - Douglas, William O.
37. Queen Victoria - Streatfield, Noel
38. The Flight and Adventures of Charles II - Norman, Charles
39. Chief of the Cossacks - Lamb, Harold
40. Adventures of Ulysses - Gottlieb, Gerald
41. William the Conqueror - Costain, Thomas B.
42. Jesus of Nazareth - Fosdick, Harry Emerson
43. Julius Caesar - Gunther, John
44. The Story of Australia - Day, A. Grove
45. Captain Cortes Conquers Mexico - Johnson, William
46. Florence Nightingale - Hume, Ruth Fox
47. The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler - Shirer, William L.
48. The Story of Atomic Energy - Fermi, Laura
49. Great Men of Medicine - Hume, Ruth Fox
50. Cleopatra of Egypt - Hornblow, Leonora
51. The Sinking of the Bismarck - Shirer, William L.
52. Lawrence of Arabia - MacLean, Alistair
53. The Life of Saint Paul - Fosdick, Harry Emerson
54. The Voyages of Henry Hudson - Rachlis, Eugene
55. Hero of Trafalgar - Whipple, A. B. C.
56. Winston Churchill - Reynolds, Quentin
57. The War in Korea: 1950 - 1953 - Leckie, Robert
58. Walter Raleigh - Buckmaster, Henrietta
59. The Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt - Payne, Elizabeth
60. Flying Aces of World War I - Gurney, Gene
61. Commandos of World War II - Carter, Hodding
62. Ben Gurion and the Birth of Israel - Comay, Joan
63. The United Nations in War and Peace - Fehrenbach, T. R.

Updated December 2009

2005-07-06T23:57:00.002-04:00

Our Favorite Picture Story Books

This is NOT a list of books for sale. It is a list of titles and series to use as a reference.

These are primarily fiction picture books but a few of our favorite non-fiction Bible, nature/science & history titles are included here. Most of these books are for children in the infant to three-four years of age range. A few of these books were read and re-read to the point of being memorized.

By the time the girls were around 3 or 4 years old I read longer picture books and small chapter books to them. Gradually we read longer chapter books that were more challenging to them. I didn't go by grade level and prefered to chose books that were of interest. I've listed these titles separately.

The books we enjoy for the lovely illustrations are awarded our Seven Pillars Butterfly.

Infant to Three-Four Years of Age

Anholt, Laurence
Degas and the Little Dancer

Anno, Mitsumasa
Anno's Alphabet
King's Flower (The)

Ardizzone, Edward
Johnny the Clockmaker
Sarah and Simon and No Red Paint

Arnosky, Jim

We enjoy his art/illustrations - he has both simple black/white line drawings and wonderful water color art.

Visit Jim Arnosky's Web Site
All About Owls
Chicken Forgets
Come Out, Muskrats
Drawing From Nature
In the Forest
Manatee Morning
Small Rabbit
Swim Little Duck

Barklem, Jill
One of our MOST favorite fiction picture book series. Brambly Hedge Series

Look Inside Sea Story
Visit the Brambly Hedge Web Site
Spring Story
Summer Story
Autumn Story
Winter Story
High Hills
Poppy's Babies
Secret Staircase
Sea Story

Baynes, Pauline-illustrator

I Believe, The Nicene Creed

Bemelmans, Ludwig
Madeline
Madeline and the Bad Hat
Madeline's Rescue

Beskow, Elsa
Pelle's New Suit

Bishop, Jennie

The Princess and the Kiss

Bodecker, N. M.

Miss Jaster's Garden
This is a lovely story about a little hedgehog who stirs up some excitement in the slow-paced life of Miss Jaster who lives by the sea, a wonderful seasonal & sea story.
Look Inside Miss Jaster's Garden

Brock, Emma
Greedy Goat (The)
Little Fat Gretchen

Brown, Margaret Wise

Bunny Book (The)
Friendly Book (The)
Good Night Moon
Little Fur Family (The)
Goodnight Moon
Nibble Nibble
Runaway Bunny (The)
Visit the Margaret Wise Brown Web Site

Burton, Virginia Lee

Calico the Wonder Horse
Choo Choo
Katy and the Big Snow
Little House
Maybelle the Cable Car
Mike Mulligan and His Steamshovel

Virginia Lee Burton Biography
Activites Worksheets for the Mike Mulligan book.

Carroll, Ruth and Latrobe
Salt and Peper

Cooney, Barbara
Chanticleer and the Fox
Hattie and the Wild Waves
Island Boy
Miss Rumphius
Roxaboxen

de Angeli, Marguerite
Read about Marguerite de Angeli
Read a Ted and Tina Story
Lessons Plans for Copper-toed Boots
Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes
Copper-Toed Boots

Domanska, Janina
Turnip (The)

Dr. Suess
Cat in the Hat (The)
Cat in the Hat Came Back (The)
Green Eggs and Ham
Horton Hears a Who

Duvoison, Roger
Petunia
Petunia, Beware!
Petunia's Christmas

Erickson, Mary E.
Six Busy Days, The Wonderful Story of Creation

Flack, Marjorie

Story of Ping (The)
Boats on the River (The)

Gag, Wanda
ABC Bunny
Funny Thing (The)
Millions of Cats
Snippy and Snappy

Grossman, Bill - illustrated by Sue Truesdell, great rhyming text
Donna O'Neeshuck was Chased By Some Cows

Haidle, David and Helen - beautiful illustrations, don't miss!
He Is My Shepherd

Hawkinson, John

We enjoy his watercolor illustrations and use them for art.

Ekorn the Squirrel
Mouse That Fell Off the Rainbow (The)
Robins and Rabbits
Where the Wild Apples Grow
Who Lives There?

Herriot, James
Bonnie's Big Day
Christmas Day Kitten
Moses the Kitten
Smudge, the Little Lost Lamb

Hines, Anna Grossnickel
Big Like Me
Visit the Anna Grossnickel Hines Web Site

Hoban, Russell and Lillian
Sorely Trying Day (The)

Hoffmann, E.T.A
adapted by Janet Schulman, illustrated by Renee Graef, Audio CD narrated by Claire Bloom, music Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - HarperCollins
Nutcracker (The

Hughes, Shirley

We enjoy the warm illustrations and the kind actions of the siblings, wonderful for infant/toddlers.

Alfie Gets In First
Alfie Gives a Hand
Alfie's Feet
Alfie's Night Out
Annie Rose is My Little Sister
Dogger
Lucy and Tom's Day
Olly and Me

Kahl, Virginia
Duchess Bakes a Cake (The)
Droopsi
Giants, Indeed!
Habit of Rabbits (The)
How Many Dragons Are Behind the Door?
Who's Cat is That?

Krasilovsky, Phyllis - illustrated by Peter Spier
Cow Who Fell in the Canal (The)

Kumin, Maxine - illustrated by Don Almquist
When Great-Grandmother was Young

Kuskin, Karla
James and the Rain

Langstaff, John
illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky - lovely illustrations of meadow life.
Over in the Meadow

Lewis, Kim

These are in print, recently published by Candlewick Press, c1998, wonderful for infants/toddlers, lovely soft-edged watercolor illustrations with some stories in rural, pastoral settings, don't miss!

Visit the Kim Lewis Website
Emma's Lamb
Floss
Goodnight, Harry
Here We Go, Harry
A Quilt for Baby
Little Lamb
Little Puppy
Just Like Floss

Littlesugar, Amy

illustrated by Ian Schoenherr, in print, recently published by Philomel Books, c1996

Marie in Fourth Position, The Story of Degas' "The Little Dancer"

Lobel, Arnold
Days with Frog and Toad
Frog and Toad All Year
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Frog and Toad Together
On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town

Locker, Thomas
We like these books for Thomas Locker's art/illustrations, have an old world look and feel, beautiful! - also includes nature/science topics, in print, don't miss!
Artist (The)
Boy Who Held Back the Sea (The)
Farm (The)
First Thanksgiving (The)
Rip Van Winkle
Sky Tree
Snow Toward Evening
Water Dance

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - illustrated by Ted Rand
Paul Revere's Ride

Lowery, Janette Sebring
Pokey Little Puppy
Six Silver Spoons

MacDonald, Amy

illustrations by Marjorie Priceman, in print, great fun, rhyming text.

Rachel Fister's Blister
Cousin Ruth's Tooth

MacDonald, Elizabeth
illustrated by Ken Brown with lovely watercolor illustrations, in print recently published by Dutton's Children's Books, c1999
Dilly-Dally and the Nine Secrets - text/story is a simple counting story for the infant/toddler learning to count -- one of our favorites for the illustrations! If your prefer to put beautiful artwork in your young child's hands and heart, this is one not to miss -- Ken Brown's illustrations are beautiful, be sure to see!

Mackenzie, Carine
Caring Creator (The)
Our Loving God

Maier, Paul
Very First Christmas (The)
Very First Easter (The)

Marxhausen, Joanne
illustrated by Benjamin Marxhausen
3 in 1 (A Picture of God)
If I Should Die, If I Should Live

Mayhew, James
These are in print, recently published by Orchard Books, c1997 & c1998, beautifully illustrated.

Look Inside Katie and the Sunflowers
Katie and the Mona Lisa
Katie Meets the Impressionists
Katie's Sunday Afternoon
Katie in London
Katie and the Sunflowers

McCloskey, Robert
Blueberries for Sal
Lentil
Make Way for the Ducklings
Time of Wonder

McCully, Emily Arnold
Mirette on the High Wire

Miles, Miska - illustrated by Peter Parnall
Apricot ABC

Morrison, Bill
Squeeze a Sneeze

Morgan, Shirley - illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Rain, Rain, Don't Go Away

Ness, Evaline
Sam, Bangs, & Moonshine

Newberry, Clare Turlay
April's Kittens
Marshmallow
Smudge
Widget

Numeroff, Laura Joffe
Laura Numeroff's Kid's Fun Web Site
If You Give a Moose a Muffin
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

O'Neill, Mary
Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Oppenheim, Joanne - illustrated by Jean and Mou-Sien Txeng
We enjoy this book for the lovely illustrations and use it for art, in print, recently published by Scholastic Hardcover, c1995
Have You Seen Trees?

Parrish, Peggy
A Beastly Circus - illustrated by Peter Parnall, a nature/science ABC book with Peter Parnall's beastly art/illustrations.
Amelia Bedelia and more in the Amelia Bedelia series

Piper, Watty
The Little Engine That Could

Polacco, Patricia
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair
Mrs. Katz and Tush
Thunder Cake

Potter, Beatrix
Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit (The)

Purdy, Carol
Least of All

Sanders, Scott Russell - beautifully illustrated.
Aurora Means Dawn
Floating House (The)
Warm As Wool

Slepian, Jan and Seidler, Ann
The Cat Who Wore a Pot on Her Head (Original title Bendemolena)

Spier, Peter - One of our favorite illustrators!
Crash! Bang! Boom!
Gobble Growl Grunt
Oh, Were They Ever Happy!
London Bridge
People
Rain
Tin Lizzy
The Star Spangled Banner
We the People

Sproul, R. C. - illustrated by Liz Bonham , beautiful, be sure to see!
King Without a Shadow (The)
Priest with Dirty Clothes (The)

Steig, William
Amos and Boris
Brave Irene
Dr. Desoto
Yellow and Pink

Streatfeild, Noel
Theater Cat (The)

Thaxter, Celia - adapted and illustrated by Loretta Krupinski, lovely illustrations
Celia's Island Journal

Titus, Eve
Anatole and the Cat
Anatole and the Piano
Anatole and the Toy Shop
Anatole in Italy
Anatole Over Paris

Tudor, Tasha
1 is One
A is for Annabelle
Mother Goose

Udry, Janice May - illustrated by Martha Alexander
Mary Ann's Mud Day

Watts, Mabel
One of my most favorite.

A Cow in the House

Wildsmith, Brian
Circus
Exodus
Farm Animals
Fishes
Joseph
Little Wood Duck (The)
Saint Francis
Squirrels

Yashima, Mitsu and Taro

Momo's Kitten
Umbrella

Ziefert, Harriet

A New Coat for Anna

Zolotow, Charlotte

Big Sister, Little Sister
I Like to Be Little
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
Over and Over
Park Book (The)
Seashore Book (The)
Storm Book (The)
When the Wind Stops

Three-Four to Seven Years of Age

Dalgliesch, Alice
Blue Teapot (The)
Relief's Rocker
Little Wooden Farmer (The)

De Jong, Meindert
Big White Goose and the Little White Duck (The)
Puppy Summer
Meindert De Jong Biography

Holberg, Ruth
Hester & Timothy, Pioneers
Mitty and Mr. Syrup
Wee Brigit O'Toole

Kipling, Rudyard
Just-So Stories

Milne, A. A. - illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard
One of our most favorite!

World of Winnie-the-Pooh (The)
World of Christopher Robin (The

O. Henry
Gift of the Magi and Five Other Stories

Olson, Arielle North - illustrated by Elaine Wentworth
Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter (The

Roop, Peter and Connie
Keep the Lights Burning Abbie

van Stockum, Hilda
A Day on Skates

Wilde, Oscar
Selfish Giant (The) - illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger

2005-07-05T23:54:00.000-04:00

I'm searching for these books for our home library and looking for "reading copy condition" books in the price range of $1.00-$3.00. Our home library is made up of mostly ex-library books in "Reading Copy" condition, and I prefer them because of their durability.

I have additional links with list of more titles in the series and also images for viewing. You can see what the books look like to better help you recognize the books.

Baxter, Richard
The Christian Directory
The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Benefic Press What is . . .? Series - nature/science
For a complete list and images see: What is ...?

What is a Dinosaur?
What is a Plant?
What is Chemistry?
What is Electricity?
What is Soil?

Bennett, Arthur
Valley of Vision

Berkhof, Louis
Hismayca
Systematic Theology

Boettner, Loraine
The Reformd Doctrine of Predestination

Boice, James Montgomery
Foundation of the Christian Faith
The Doctrines of Grace
Two Cities, Two Loves

Brady, Irene
for a list of other books by Irene Brady and images see: Irene Brady
Beaver Year - 1976 Houghton Mifflin Co.
Owlet, The Great Horned Owl - 1974 Houghton Mifflin Co.

Burroughs, Jeremiah
The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
The Saints Happiness, 41 Sermons on the Beatitudes

Calvin, Johm
Institutes of the Christian Religion
Instruction in the Faith
Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God
Heart Aflaame, Daily Readings from Calvin on the Psalms

Chubb, Mary with Jill Wyatt - history
For complete list and images see: Mary Chubb
An Alphabet of Ancient Britain
An Alphabet of Assyria and Babylonia - published by either Geoffrey Bles, London or Watts International, Great Britian

Church, Alfred J.
Lucias: Adventures of a Roman Boy
Three Greek Children, A Story of Home in Old Time

Earle, Olive L. - This is one of our favorite authors for nature/science!
For complete list and images see: Olive L. Earle

Birds and Their Beaks
Birds of the Crow Family
Praying Mantis
Squirrels in the Garden
The Swans of Willow Pond
White Patch, A City Sparrow

Edwards, Jonathan
Charity and Its Fruits
Altogether Lovely
Freedom of the Will

Garrard Publishing (Garrard Press)-Discovery Biography Series - history
For complete list and images see: Discovery Biographies

Martha Washington, First Lady of the Land - Anderson, LaVere
Phillis Wheatley, America's First Black Poetess - Fuller, Miriam Morris
Robert E. Lee, Hero of the South - Graves, Charles P.
Sojourner Truth, Fearless Crusader - Peterson, Helen Stone

Garrard Publishing (Garrard Press)-How They Lived Series - history
For complete list and images see: How They Lived

Brave Balloonists, America's First Airmen - Douty, Esther M.
Flatboat Days on Frontier Rivers - McCague, James
Sutter's Fort, Empire on the Sacramento - Luce, Willard and Celia
When Americans Came to New Orleans - Cavanah, Frances
When a Ton of Gold Reached Seattle - Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider
When Cape Cod Men Saved Lives - Janes, Edward C.
When Chicago Was Young - McCague, James
When Clipper Ships Ruled the Seas - McCague, James
When Cowboys Rode the Chisholm Trail - McCague, James
When Jamestown was a Colonial Capital - Andrews, Mary Evans

Goddard, Burton
Animals and Birds of the Bible

Golden Universal History of the World - Volume 9 only, to complete my set.

Grahame, Kenneth
Reluctant Dragon

Greenleaf, Margery
Banner Over Me

Guerber, H. A.
Empresses of France
Legends of the Rhine
Story of the Chosen People
Story of Greece

Handford, Elizabeth Rice
Exiled Prince
Fugitive King

Howie, John
The Scots Worthies

Hunt, Mabel Leigh - historical fiction
Susan - Beware!
Little Girl with Seven Names

Hunter, James H. - historical fiction
Hammer of God
How Sleep the Brave

Hyman, Frieda Clark
Jubal and the Prophet

Immortals of Series - Franklin Watts, Inc., 1960's
For complete list and images see: Immortals of series

Immortals of Science
Copernicus, Titan of Modern Astronomy - Knight, David C.
Euclid and Geometry - DeLacy, Estelle Allen
Galileo and Experimental Science - Marcus, Rebecca B.

Immortals of Philosophy & Religion
Plato, His Life and Teachings - Pittenger, W. Norman
Socrates, The Father of Western Philosophy - Turlington, Bayly
Immortals of History
Charlemagne, Monarch of the Middle Ages - Stearns, Monroe
Hannibal, Invader from Carthage - Webb, Robert N.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Revolutionary of Music - Reingold, Carmel
Rembrandt and His World - Sterns, Monroe
Richard the Lion-Hearted, the Crusader King - Pittenger. W. Norman

Irwin, Grace - history
Servant of Slaves
The Seventh Earl

Kubie, Nora Benjamin
King Solomon's Horses

Landmark - Random House
For complete list and images see: Landmark
King Arthur & His Knights - Robinson, Mabel Louise

Leacroft, Helen and Richard
For list and images of other titles see: Helen and Richard Leacroft
The Buildings of Ancient Man
The Buildings of Early Islam

Leighton, Margaret
Journey for a Princess

Lerner Publications Company - Lerner Archaeology Series - originally published in 1973 by Lerner Publications Company. This series is for approximately grade levels 4 & up. For complete list and image see: Lerner's Archaeology series

Jewelry of the Ancient World
The Art of Mosaics
Coins of the Ancient World
Underwater Archaeology
City Planning in Ancient Times

Lerner Publications Company - Cambridge History Library - originally published in 1972 by Cambridge University Press as part of The Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind written and edited by Trevor Cairns. Republished in 1977.
Lerner Publications Company - Cambridge Introduction to History of Mankind-written by Trevor Cairns. For complete list and images see: Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind

The Romans and Their Empire
The Middle Ages
The Birth of Modern Europe
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Power for the People
Europe Around the World

Lerner Publications Company - The Cambridge Topic Books-edited by Trevor Cairns. For complete list and images see: Cambridge Topic Books -- scroll down to mid-page.
Life in a Fifteenth-Century Monastary
The American War of Independence - Evans, R.E.
The Earliest Farmers and the First Cities - Higham, Charles
The First Ships Around the World - Brownlee, W.D.
The Industrial Revolution Begins

MacDonald, George
Lilith

Madison, Lucy Foster
A Maid at King Alfred's Court

Mayflower Series for Girls

Morrison, Lucille - historical fiction
Lost Queen of Egypt

Nolan, Dennis
Androcles and the Lion

Orton, Helen Fuller - historical fiction, I have Gold-Laced Coat, Story of Old Niagara
A Lad of Old Williamsburg
Brave Frontier
Hoof-Beats of Freedom
The Winding River

~~Packer, J. I.~~
~~Knowing God~~

Pink, Arthur W.
The Saints' Perserverance
The Sovereignty of God
Pink Jewels
Practical Christianity

Piper, John
Dangerous Duty of Delight: The Glorified God and the Satisfied Soul
Desiring God
Pleasures of God

Polland, Madeline
White Twilight (The)

Prokop, Phyllis
The Sword and the Sundial

Ranson, Arthur - hardcover
Peter Duck
Winter Holiday
The Big Six
The Picts and the Martyrs
Great Northern

Row Peterson Real People Biography Series
For complet list and images see: Real People Biography
If you can add to this list, please, let me know. This is most likely not a complete list.
Alfred the Great - Eloise Lownsbery
Daniel Boone - Jeannette Covert Nolan
Hernando Desoto - Condon,Vesta E.
Iknaton of Egypt - Enid LaMonte Meadowcraft
Jane Addams - Blackstock, Josephine
Robert E. Lee - Solem, Elizabeth Kinloch
Abraham Lincoln - Cavanah, Frances

Russell, William (c1856)
Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer

Ruvolo, Carol J.
God With Us

Ryle, J.C.
Holiness
Rediscovering Holiness
The Duties of Parents

Shankland, Frank North
Nature Study-for list and images see: Frank North Shankland
Chisel-Tooth And Other Forest Dwellers
Common Birds

Slaughter, Gertrude
Shakespeare and the Heart of a Child

Snedeker, Caroline Dale
Luke's Quest

Spurgeon, Charles
Treasury of David

Sproul, R. C.
~~Chosen by God~~
~~Essential Truths of the Christian Faith~~
Holiness of God

Tappan, Eva March
For list of more of her books see: Eva March Tappan
Chaucer Story Book
Old, Old Ballads in Prose
Old, Old Story-Book
Story of the Greek People
When Knights Were Bold

Terry, Arthur Guy - history, Row Peterson, c1920's - History Stories of Other Lands Series:
Tales From Far and Near
Tales of Long Ago
Lord and Vassal
The Modern World

Ventura, Piero
For more of his titles see: Piero Ventura
1492 The Year of the New World
Grand Constructions
Great Composers
Great Painters
Life in Ancient Crete

White, James
The Potter's Freedom

Williamson, Joanne
Eagles Have Flown
Iron Charm

The Young Biography series - Roy Publishers c1960-70
For complete list and images see: The Young series

The Young Alexander the Great - Mitchison, Naomi
The Young Alfred the Great - Mitchison, Naomi
The Young Byron - Barbary, James
The Young Catherine the Great - Almedingen, E. M.
The Young Charles Lamb - West, Trudy
The Young David - Groom, Arthur
The Young Dickens - Pringle, Patrick
The Young Drake - Knight, Frank
The Young Edgar Allan Poe - Cooper, Lettice
The Young Einstein - Pringle, Patrick
The Young Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Abrahall, Clare H.
The Young Elizabeth Fry - Pringle, Patrick
The Young Faraday - Pringle, Patrick
The Young Florence Nightingale - Cooper, Lettice
The Young Gilbert & Sullivan - Harris, Paula
The Young Helen Keller - Wymer, Norman
The Young James Barrie - Elder, Michael
The Young John Bunyan - Abrahall, Clare H.
The Young Lawrence of Arabia - Cadell, James
The Young Leonardo Da Vinci - Almedingen, E. M.
The Young Lewis Carroll - Richardson, Joanna
The Young Louis Braille - Abrahall, Clare H.
The Young Louis Pasteur - Richardson, Joanna
The Young Louisa M. Alcott - Robinson, Martha
The Young Marie Curie - Abrahall, Clare H.
The Young Mary Queen of Scots - Plaidy, Jean
The Young Milton - Hobbs, Mary
The Young Mozart - Jenkins, Alan
The Young Napoleon - Cooper, Leonard
The Young Nelson - Syme, Ronald
The Young Pavlova - Almedingen, E. M.
The Young Robert Bruce - Oliver, Jane
The Young Robert Louis Stevenson - Finlay, Ian
The Young Shelley - Rush, Philip
The Young St. Mark - Haughton, Rosemary
The Young William Booth - Watson, Bernard

Young Historian Books - The John Day Company
For complete list and images see: The Young Historian.
Byzantium - Rice, Tamara Talbot (also by Tamara Rice: Everyday Life in Byzantium - published by Dorset, New York,1987 or Barnes and Noble, New York, 1994 reprint of 1967)
The Reformation - Cowie, Leonard

Other Homeschool Curriculum:
Uncle Bob's Nature Corner Mammals by Moody Audio Ministry
Uncle Bob's Nature Corner Our Feathered Friends by Moody Audio Ministry
Ancient History from Primary Sources: A Literary Timeline - Bluedorn

2005-06-19T23:17:00.001-04:00

Poem: When Mother Reads Aloud

When Mother reads aloud, the past
Seems real as every day;
I hear the tramp of armies vast,
I see the spears and lances cast,
I join the thrilling fray;
Brave knights and ladies fair and proud
I meet when Mother reads aloud.

When Mother reads aloud, far lands
Seem very near and true;
I cross the desert's gleaming sands,
Or hunt the jungle's prowling bands,
Or sail the ocean blue.
Far heights, whose peaks the cold mists shroud,
I scale, when Mother reads aloud.

When Mother reads aloud, I long
For noble deeds to do...
To help the right, redress the wrong;
It seems so easy to be strong,
So simple to be true.
Oh, thick and fast the visions crowd
My eyes, when Mother reads aloud.
Author Unknown

2005-06-18T22:34:00.000-04:00

Poem: A Book

"Now" -- said a book unto me --
Open my pages and you shall see
Jewels of wisdom and treasures fine,
Gold and silver in every line,
And you may claim them if you but will
Open my pages and take your fill.

"Open my pages and run them o'er,
Take what you choose of my golden shore,
Be you greedy I shall not care --
All that you seize I shall gladly spare;
There is never a lock on my treasure doors,
Come--here are my jewels, make them yours!

"I am just a book on your mantel shelf,
But I can be part of your living self,
If only you'll travel my pages through,
Then I will travel the world with you
As two wines blended make better wine
Blend your mind with these truths of mine.

"I'll make you fitter to talk with men,
I'll touch with silver the lines you pen,
I'll lead you nearer the truth you seek,
I'll strengthen you when your faith grows weak--
This place on your shelf is a prison cell,
Let me come into your mind to dwell!"

~ Edgar Guest~

2005-06-17T23:32:00.000-04:00

Quote: There is No Academy on Earth

"There is no academy on earth equal to a mother's reading to her child." -- Horace E. Scudder

2005-06-16T23:20:00.001-04:00

Poem: The Reading Mother

I had a Mother who read to me

Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea,

Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth,

"Blackbirds" stowed in the hold beneath

I had a Mother who read me lays

Of ancient and gallant and golden days;

Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe,

Which every boy has a right to know.

I had a Mother who read me tales

Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales,

True to his trust till his tragic death,

Faithfulness blent with his final breath.

I had a Mother who read me the things

That wholesome life to the boy heart brings-

Stories that stir with an upward touch,

Oh, that each mother of boys were such!

You may have tangible wealth untold;

Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.

Richer than I you can never be-

I had a Mother who read to me.

~Strickland Gillian~

2005-06-15T00:02:00.000-04:00

Poem: Adventure

Here's an adventure! what awaits
Beyond these closed, mysterious gates?
Whom shall I meet, where shall I go?
Beyond the lovely land I know?
Above the sky, across the sea?
What shall I learn and feel and be?
Open, strange doors, to good or ill!
I hold my breath a moment still!
Before the magic of your look.
What shall you do to me, O Book?

2005-06-14T00:11:00.004-04:00

Quote: A Precious Mouldering Pleasure

"A precious - mouldering pleasure - 'tis - to meet an Antique Book - In just the Dress his Century wore - a privilege - I think --" ~Emily Dickinson~

2005-06-12T01:08:00.003-04:00

Quote: There Are Rainy Aternoons in the Country

"There are rainy afternoons in the country in autumn, and stormy days in winter, when one's work outdoors is finished and after wet clothes have been changed for dry, the rocking-chair in front of the open wood fire simply demands an accompanying book." ~Theodore Roosevelt~

2005-06-11T00:06:00.002-04:00

Quote: The Man Who Does Not Read Good Books

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." ~Mark Twain~

2005-06-10T00:03:00.003-04:00

Quote: Good Books, Like Good Friends

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen. The more select, the more enjoyable." ~Louisa May Alcott~

2005-06-08T22:00:00.002-04:00

Quote: The More You Read

"The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." ~Dr. Suess~

2005-06-07T14:51:00.003-04:00

Quote: Some Books Are To Be Tasted

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." ~Roger Bacon~

2005-06-02T09:07:00.007-04:00

Poem: Happy Chimney Corner Days

Summer fading, winter comes--
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs,
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story-books.

Water now is turned to stone
Nurse and I can walk upon;
Still we find the flowing brooks
In the picture story-books.

All the pretty things put by,
Wait upon the children's eye,
Sheep and shepherds, trees and crooks,
In the picture story-books.

We may see how all things are
Seas and cities, near and far,
And the flying fairies' looks,
In the picture story-books.

How am I to sing your praise,
Happy chimney-corner days,
Sitting safe in nursery nooks,
Reading picture story-books?

~Robert Louis Stevenson~