Category Archives: Children’s Non-fiction
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...
Historic Boyhoods
Author(s): Rupert S. Holland Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men,...
Great Englishwomen
Author(s): M. B. Synge Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 14, Feb. 3, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing serialized stories,...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 17, Feb. 24, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes delightful serialized and...
Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman
Author(s): C. H. Forbes-Lindsay Daniel Boone is celebrated in history and legend as one of...
Cleopatra
Author(s): Jacob Abbott A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner,...
Daniel Boone
Author(s): Katharine Elliott Wilkie “Get out of Kentucky and stay out!” the Indians told Daniel...
George Washington
Author(s): Calista McCabe Courtenay In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the...
Famous Men of Rome
Author(s): John Henry HaarenA. B. Poland Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 21, March 23, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off...
Four Great Americans
Author(s): James Baldwin Written for children, James Baldwin’s history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln...
Harper’s Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 19, March 9, 1880
Author(s): Various Harper’s Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off...
Diggers in the Earth
Author(s): Eva March Tappan This book of 11 knowledgeable chapters is a good read for...
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