Category Archives: Family
Pollyanna’s Jewels
Author(s): Harriet Lummis Smith In this fourth “Glad Book”, Pollyanna returns to her public, no...
Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (version 2)
Author(s): Eleanor Hallowell Abbott If you don’t like Christmas stories, don’t read this one! And...
Our Little English Cousin
Author(s): Blanche McManus This delightful little book is another in the “Our Little Cousin” series...
Miss Ingalis
Author(s): Gertrude Hall As the story begins, title character Grace Ingalis is a young woman...
Miss Lochinvar
Author(s): Marion Ames Taggart At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece —...
On Angel’s Wings
Author(s): Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene Louisa Lilias Plunket Greene was an Irish author of children’s...
Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)
Author(s): Blanche McManus Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living...
Pollyanna’s Debt of Honor
Author(s): Harriet Lummis Smith This is the fifth Pollyanna Glad Book. Pollyanna is kept busy...
Peggy’s Trial
Author(s): Mary Knight Potter Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and...
More About Pixie
Author(s): Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories...
Peter and Wendy
Author(s): J. M. Barrie Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a...
Mother Carey’s Chickens
Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin “When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown...
Original Stories from Real Life
Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin Rebecca goes to live with her two stern aunts in a...
Rose in Bloom
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott Opening several years after the close of “Eight Cousins”, we find...
Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms
Author(s): Harriet Lummis Smith Pollyanna marries sweetheart Jimmy Pendleton, and together they move to start...
Nobody’s Rose
Author(s): Adele Eugenia Thompson In the hustle and bustle of the big city, nobody heard...
Pollyanna (version 2)
Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna...
Pickett’s Gap
Author(s): Homer Greene Rival railroads want to run a rail line through Pickett’s Gap. A...
Mary Ware in Texas
Author(s): Annie Fellows Johnston A continuation of the adventures of Mary Ware, the chum of...
Return to Gone-Away
Few authors capture the intoxicating wonder of childhood discovery with as much sensory warmth and...
Pollyanna (version 4)
Author(s): Eleanor H. Porter Spinster Polly Harrington is perfectly content to be in control of...
Helen in the Editor’s Chair
Author(s): Ruthe S. Wheeler After her father, Hugh Blair, falls ill from exhaustion as editor...
Little Queen of Hearts
Late Victorian children’s literature frequently relied on the transformative power of an innocent, sunny disposition,...
Hive of Busy Bees
Author(s): Effie Mae Hency Williams In the summer, Don and Joyce stay on their Grandma...
Jack and Jill (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott When Jack and Jill tumble off their sled on the first...
Jan Of The Windmill
Few nineteenth-century domestic narratives capture the quiet tension between rustic labor and hidden artistic genius...
Jack and Jill
Author(s): Louisa May Alcott Jack and Jill went up a hillTo coast with fun and...
Heidi (version 3)
Author(s): Johanna Spyri Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a 5 year old little Swiss orphan...
Jonas on a Farm in Winter
Author(s): Jacob Abbott This little work, with its companion, Jonas On A Farm In Summer,...