The King of the Golden River
10 best books like The King of the Golden River (John Ruskin): The Burgess Bird Book for Children, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Tanglewood Tales: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Handbook of Nature Study, The Wonder Clock or, Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales, Being One for Each Hour of the Day, Buffalo Bill, The Little Duke, Pagoo, Parables from Nature, Fifty Famous Stories Retold
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0486428400 |
Parents, teachers, and young readers all over the world have enthusiastically welcomed the Dover reprints of Thornton Burgess's classic nature books, including the perennial bestseller, The Adventures of Peter Cottontail. In the present volume, the author's goal of introducing children to the...
| Author | Mordecai Richler |
| ISBN | 0887766862 |
We all grew up with television, right? I still remember when I was a 5-y/o toddler and I was sitting on the floor right in front of our black-and-white television. I was watching a belly dancer and my parents and siblings were laughing because I was having a hard-on.
I also remember the many times...
| 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 | Anna Botsford Comstock |
| ISBN | 0801493846 |
'A matchless handbook for decades, this classic has been the natural history bible of countless teachers and others who seek information about their natural environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common plants and animals, and even less about earth...
It is rare indeed when a writer's original stories are regarded as masterpieces on a par with the great folkloristic fairy tales that have been handed down through the ages. But Howard Pyle's absorbing tales have for generations enjoyed such overwhelming popularity with boys and girls that they have...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380374 |
I've often considered the "Wild West" to be fascinating. Cowboys, buffalo, Indians, wagons and life on the pioneer are tantalizing elements of fiction. Perhaps I read a little too much Little House on the Prairie as a girl.
Of all the famous elements of the west, the person who most embodies...
| 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 | 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 | 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...
| Author | Jennie Hall |
| ISBN | 1599150042 |
Nights were long in Iceland winters of long ago. A whole family sat for hours around the fire in the middle of the room. That fire gave the only light. Shadows flitted in the dark corners. Smoke curled along the high beams of the ceiling. The children sat on the dirt floor close by the fire. The grown people...
| Author | Richard M. Hannula |
| ISBN | 1885767544 |
"Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls" (Jer. 6:16).
Christianity is a faith in love with history. God took on human flesh and dwelt among us. The Spirit carried that divine work over the...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0374327416 |
The story of the golem who wanted to be human that moved me so much in The Alchemist's Door is written with very little emotion in Singer's retelling. He takes a just-the-facts-ma'am approach, and the golem seems more of an out-of-control Frankenstein's monster in this story. Therefore, it's hard to...
| Author | L. Frank Baum |
| ISBN | 0517519046 |
This has sat on my Kindle (a freebie) as a collection of short stories that I read during short trips. I figured if it was made by the Wizard of Oz writer, it could be really interesting. That was my only 'selling' point, or I probably would have ignored it.
I think the book improved as it went along,...
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years.
This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of the Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense,...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0064437485 |
Against the fascinating tapestry of France's history during the Hundred Years War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a story of vision and...
| Author | H.E. Marshall |
| ISBN | 1599150093 |
A child's history of England from earliest legendary times delightfully retold. Beginning with the stories of Albion and Brutus, it relates all the interesting legends and hero tales in which the history of England abounds through the end of the reign of Queen Victoria. Suitable for children ages...
| Author | Charles Kingsley |
| ISBN | 1599150239 |
It's like he's always talking down to the reader.
"Now little kid, I would tell you about this and this but you're too stupid, not old and wise and clever like me... Ah hah! Here is something you might comprehend! I will talk a bit about it. But THAT, oh, don't even try to think about such and such,...
