Joan of Arc

Author	George MacDonald
ISBN	0140367462

Published in 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is one of the first books in the modern fantasy genre. This book had tremendous and very visible influence on all the (now much more famous) authors that came after it.

It is of course very dated. It does not match the standards that fantasy have created...

Author	Marguerite de Angeli
ISBN	0440227798

The bells clang above plague-ridden London as Robin lies helpless, cold, and hungry. The great house is empty, his father is fighting the Scots in the north, his mother is traveling with the Queen, and the servants have fled. He calls for help but only the stones hear his cries. Suddenly someone else is...

Author	Margaret Hodges
ISBN	0316367958

This special new paperback edition of St. George and the Dragon commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Caldecott Award-winning picture book. Hodges retells an exciting segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which the Red Cross Knight slays a dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the...

Author	Howard Pyle
ISBN	1595406557

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel compiles traditional material into a coherent...

Author	Holling Clancy Holling
ISBN	0808551515

I don't think this would make a great bedtime story as it would take about 30-45 minutes to read it aloud at least. It is a full page of text with a full picture. It would make a great first reader book for someone who wants to read a story if they enjoy more history things.

I really enjoyed this book....

Author	Ingri d'Aulaire
ISBN	0964380315

The D Aulaires researched this classic biography of the Father Of Our Country by traveling in the very footsteps of Washington across Virginia territory, absorbing the essence of this great man. Beautifully illustrated in full color. Recommended in Laura Berquist Syllabus Grades 2, 3 and 4 Author:...

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Holling Clancy Holling

This was one of our geography books for my second grader this past year (see Ambleside Online 2nd grade curriculum). We loved reading one chapter a week but near the end we didn't want to stop and finished reading it all at once.

The illustrations are beautifully detailed with colors true to the...

Author	Charlotte Mary Yonge
ISBN	1406955302

On a bright autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and the windows, which had no glass, were very small,...

Author	Walter Wick
ISBN	0590221973

The most spectacular photographs ever created on the subject of water appear in this unique science book by Walter Wick. The camera stops the action and magnifies it so that all the amazing states of water can be observed - water as ice, rainbow, stream, frost, dew. Readers can examine a drop of water as...

Author	Holling Clancy Holling
ISBN	0395539641

I want to be a Hermit Crab.



No mortgages, just move when you want a new dwelling and take it over. I like that. Pagoo (short for 'Pagurus') is a Hermit Crab. When he is born, he is no bigger than a tiny pencil dot.



When you start life like that, the odds are not good. But...

Author	Mrs. Alfred Gatty
ISBN	1599150050

I cannot say enough about Parables from Nature by Margaret Scott Gatty. What a treasure! Mrs. Gatty wrote with a wonderful prose style, and included many encouraging morals which are a joy to share with children. The stories , which seek to uncover God’s craftsmanship in the natural world, are challenging,...

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Bruce Robertson

Now in many ways Bruce Robertson's Marguerite Makes a Book does a truly wonderful job with both meticulous detail and engagement showing and demonstrating how a hand-painted (illuminated) Mediaeval book is (or more to the point how such a tome generally was) created, was made (and indeed also why these...

Author	Emily Hahn
ISBN	0491002467

Leonardo da Vinci, Emily Hahn
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: دهم ژانویه سال 1989 میلادی
عنوان: گردونه تاریخ جلد 10 : لئوناردو داوینچی نابغه ای که زود به دنیا آمد؛ نویسنده: امیلی هان؛...

Author	Holling Clancy Holling
ISBN	0395266815

Delightful! Holling tells a multi-generational story about fatherhood, the wonders of the natural world, the joy of discovery, and the pride of hard work, all in 27 single-page chapters. Each chapter is told in lively, poetic prose and faces a gorgeous full-color illustration. The margins are filled...

Author	Ingri d'Aulaire
ISBN	0385241062

It sort of pains me to only give this book 4 stars; it is really so good. (I am one of those people who either passionately loves a book or hates it. There is rarely an in between.)

These d'Aulaire books are GORGEOUSLY illustrated, and I feel like I am looking at a work of art as I flip through the pages....

Author	Ingri d'Aulaire
ISBN	0964380390

Read aloud to my children. They collectively gave it 3.5 stars.

Ellie (6 y.o): I loved it, and I thought the bathtub was really funny. That one little part when he went on a boat was the part I did not like. It was too violent.

Connor (7 y.o.): The reason I didn't I didn't like it was because...

Author	Thornton W. Burgess
ISBN	0486437450

When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who share the Green Meadows and Green Forest with him, she encourages him to speak with Old Mother Nature who is only too happy to help. During their "classroom" chats, she not only teaches Peter about Arctic...

Author	James Daugherty
ISBN	0964380358

In the rich turbulence of English history, one day stands magnificently apart: June 15th, 1215, the day of the signing of the Magna Charta. On that day the first blow for English freedom was struck, and it has forever affected the Western World. Here is the story of three men, Stephen Langton, William...