Category Archives: Children’s Non-fiction
Young Girl’s Diary
Author(s): Anonymous The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her...
Treasury of Heroes and Heroines
Author(s): Clayton Edwards It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book...
When They Were Children: Stories of the Childhood of Famous Men and Women
Author(s): Amy Steedman Sketches about the childhood of many famous men and women, written just...
When They Were Girls
Author(s): Rebecca Deming Moore Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Frances Burnett, Julia Howe,...
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2)
Author(s): Margaret Duncan Kelly The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to...
The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
Author(s): Various From the preface of the book: “To the present time, there has been...
The Story of Napoleon
Author(s): Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon’s rise to power....
The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
Author(s): Wayne Whipple This is a careful and fascinating collection of interviews with people who...
The Story of Edison and The Wonders of Electricity
Author(s): Frank Mundell Despite not having attended conventional school for more than a few months...
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh
Author(s): Margaret Duncan Kelly “Relates the story of Raleigh from his boyhood days on the...
The Story of Wool
Author(s): Sara Ware Bassett Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the...
The Story of the Treasure Seekers (version 3)
Author(s): E. Nesbit This story follows the six Bastable Children; Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel...
The Moral Picture Book
Author(s): Anonymous A collection of stories is presented here with the intent of teaching children...
The Life of George Washington in Words of One Syllable
Author(s): Josephine Pollard The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some...
The Elder Edda (Bray Translation)
Author(s): Sæmund Sigfusson The Elder or Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems...
The Carpenter’s World Travels: Holy Land and Syria
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Join a journey through the Holy Land and Syria as it...
The Book of Art for Young People
Author(s): Agnes Ethel Conway This is a charming book on Art History for children (and...
The Book of Famous Sieges
Author(s): Tudor Jenks History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are...
Stories of Grit
Author(s): Archer Wallace “There are just two classes of boys who should be permitted to...
Stories of Great Composers for Children
Author(s): Thomas Tapper This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of...
Sydney Past and Present
Author(s): John Arthur Barry An account of the early history of Sydney, Australia’s first colonial...
Stories of the Fire Brigade
Author(s): Frank Mundell The stories presented here have been collected from reports of actual incidents...
My School Days
Author(s): E. Nesbit A short memoir about the author’s school days, serialised in The Girl’s...
Pirates of Panama
Author(s): Alexandre Exquemelin This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first...
Our Young Folks’ Plutarch
Author(s): Rosalie Kaufman Plutarch’s Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and...
Music Talks With Children
Author(s): Thomas Tapper _”A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach...
Knights of Art – Stories of the Italian Painters
Author(s): Amy Steedman A children’s version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many...
Indian Boyhood
Author(s): Charles Alexander Eastman Indian Boyhood is a lively and appealing first-person recounting of the...
Little Pillows, or Good-Night Thoughts for Little Ones
Author(s): Frances Ridley Havergal Thirty-one little evening devotionals, simple enough for the child audience for...
Historic Girls
Author(s): Elbridge Streeter Brooks Twelve short stories of real girls who have influenced the history...
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