The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
10 best books like The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children (Charles Kingsley): The Landing of the Pilgrims, Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, Indian Fairy Tales, Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Grey Fairy Book, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, The Little Duke, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children, The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales
| Author | James Daugherty |
| ISBN | 0394846974 |
In England in the early 1600s, everyone was forced to join the Church of England. Young William Bradford and his friends believed they had every right to belong to whichever church they wanted. In the name of religious freedom, they fled to Holland, then sailed to America to start a new life. But the winter...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688162940 |
William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.
Drama...
Stories included are:
The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackel
The Soothsayer's Son
Harisaman
The...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1402166516 |
1853. Hawthorne wrote these stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature. Contents: The Gorgon's Head; The Golden Touch; The Paradise of Children; The Three Golden...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486217914 |
It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. The goat-faced girl, Prunella, the three sons of Hali, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres—these are the companions who thrill boys and girls of all lands and all...
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis was invited to Japan for the purpose of organizing schools along Western lines. He prepared the New Japan Series of reading and spelling books and primers...
| 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,...
I chose to read "The Fisherman and the Merman" folk-story out of this book. Like many other folk-stories this was at times hard to understand what was going on and was required to be read more than once. This story showed the very dark side that these types of stories can posses. This story says things like,...
Title
Celtic Tales Told to the Children: The Starry-Eyed Deirdre
Author
Louey Chisholm
Illustrator
Catherine Cameron
Category
Traditional and ICDL
Copyright Date
1910
Estimate of age level of interest
Adult
Estimate...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
The Ice Maiden rules the cold snowcapped mountains of Switzerland. Before Rudy was a year old, the Ice Maiden claimed his father into the icy depths of the mountains -- and now she wants Rudy too. The precocious little boy must now do everything in his power to resist the lure of the Ice Maiden . . . and escape...
| Author | H.E. Marshall |
| ISBN | 1599150107 |
Stories from the history of the United States beginning with a full account of exploration and settlement and ending with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. The 99 chapters are grouped under 7 headings: Stories of Explorers and Pioneers, Stories of Virginia, Stories of New England, Stories of the Middle...
| 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,...
| Author | Adrien Stoutenburg |
| ISBN | 0140309284 |
My new student and I listened to this book on audio. The narration was excellent and most of the stories were fun too. A few of them bogged down but this is a great introduction to American stories. I don't often do audio with students but I am happy we did with this book, the voice helped to make the book more...
| Author | Charles Major |
| ISBN | 0253203309 |
The Bears of Blue River describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite...
This is basically a children's book, but an excellent one at that.
It's a straightforward chronological history of Greece, with
authors and philosophers basically getting a passing mention.
The early history is by its own admission mythological and the
only myths covered...
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 1599150069 |
No book is better for introducing children ages 6 to 9 to legendary historical figures than this collection of stories admirably retold by James Baldwin at the beginning of the last century. Selecting the best of our literary heritage, Baldwin cast it into a form that delights children of all ages. Beginning...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0760734046 |
This book reminded me of how weird and delightful Shakespeare can be, but I was also amused to see how many tropes he uses. Namely:
- women disguised as men
- men disguised as women (and occasional donkeys)
- people falling in love with the disguised
- women loving complete and utter...
