The Little Lame Prince
10 best books like The Little Lame Prince (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik): The King of the Golden River, Shadow Castle, The Story of a Bad Boy, Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus, Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories, The Orange Fairy Book, The World's Best Fairy Tales, Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, Crown and Jewel, Great Love Poems
| Author | John Ruskin |
| ISBN | 1599151251 |
There are many starting points within the fantasy genre. J. R. R. Tolkien is often, with good reason, regarded as the father of fantasy, despite the fact that there was a vast expanse of stories before his time. Going further back, one can find the early 20th century classics that inspired the master,...
| Author | Marian Cockrell |
| ISBN | 0595092969 |
In the middle of a deep forest is an enchanted valley and a castle where only shadows live, shadows of kings and queens who have waited for hundreds of years for the spell cast upon them to be broken. One day, a girl named Lucy follows a little dog through a tunnel into the valley and meets the mysterious red-haired...
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1406806641 |
In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed...
| Author | James Otis |
| ISBN | 0486293491 |
Cleanliness:
Children's Bad Words
Mild Obscenities & Substitutions - 1 Incident: stupid
Name Calling - 1 Incident: lazybones
Religious & Supernatural - None
Conversation Topics - 5 Incidents: A boy is ungrateful and decides to runaway from home and...
| Author | Washington Irving |
| ISBN | 0140367713 |
The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the Spectre Bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English village and the come-uppance of the over-zealous Mountjoy...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486219097 |
The first Fairy Book I've read so far without any overt racism in it anywhere (and it's the antepenultimate one; sigh).
Look! The black characters get illustrated heroically and everything:
Hooray!
On the other hand, there are quite a few of those stories that...
| Author | Belle Becker Sideman |
| ISBN | 0895770784 |
Contents
Jorinda and Joringel
Puss in Boots
The Emperor's New Clothes
Billy Beg and His Bull
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
The Red Shoes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Snegourka, the Snow Maiden
The Three Little Pigs
The Shoemaker and...
| Author | Tasha Tudor |
| ISBN | 0448442000 |
Many of the classic fairy tales are included in this wonderful compilation; including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Thumbelina, Rumpelstiltskin, The Emperor's New Clothes and a few others, some not as well known.
Each page is decorated with lovely painted borders...
In this second fanciful novel which follows The Bridge, Jeri Massi continues the history of the tiny island country of Bracken. Rosewyn is the young princess, daughter of Rosalynn and Herron. Unlike her quiet and gentle mother, Rosewyn is forever climbing trees and drainspouts, knocking down boys...
| Author | Shane Weller |
| ISBN | 0486272842 |
One 65-minute cassette of the finest love poems in the English language from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay. Works by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Andrew Marvell and many others, all beautifully and sensitively read by Brian Murray and Suzanne Toren and accompanied...
| 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...
| 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...
Welcome to Rootabaga Country--where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs wear bibs, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind. You'll meet baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, corn fairies, and blue foxes--and if you're not careful, you may never find your way...
| Author | Padraic Colum |
| ISBN | 0486297225 |
Compiled by noted Irish author Padraic Colum, this treasury of time-honored tales from the fairy-haunted folklore of the Emerald Isle includes these favorite stories: "Fedelma, the Enchanter's Daughter," "When the King of the Cats Came to King Connal's Dominion," "The Sword of Light and the Unique...
The World's Great Speeches
| Author | Lewis Copeland |
| ISBN | 0486409031 |
This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel.
Among the memorable speeches...
| Author | Alfred Ollivant |
| ISBN | 1434487768 |
The extremely-- no, EXTREMELY gory and tragic story of an old Scotsman and his killer dog, Red Wull, which people inexplicably think is a nice rousing dog story for kids. Two feuding sheep farmers express their hatred and rivalry by entering their respective dogs in sheep-herding contests. It climaxes...
| Author | Mrs. O.F. Walton |
| ISBN | 1584740035 |
Behind many smiling faces there hides a hurting heart, and for what may appear to be glamorous, there is usually a high price to pay. Mrs. Walton gives us a glimpse into the life of a disillusioned young actress. In her fabricated world of glamour and glitz, Rosalie finds solace in the words of a gentle old...
| 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,...
The Adventures of Bob White
| Author | Thornton W. Burgess |
| ISBN | 0884117766 |
(...)"I
A CHEERFUL WORKER
A cheery whistle or a song
Will help the daily work along.
gladdens the hearts of all who hear it. Many and many a time has Farmer Brown's boy stopped to whistle back, and never has he failed to get a response.
A handsome little fellow is this...
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
| Author | Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice |
| ISBN | 1417920319 |
Mrs. Wiggs' life has been anything but easy. Her husband died of alcohol, her farm burned to the ground and now she struggles in her everyday fight to "pull agin' a debt." Her five children, Jimmy, Billy and the geographically named Asia, Australia and Europena, rely on her for encouragement and love...
