Category Archives: Science
The Insect Folk
Author(s): Margaret Warner Morley Through delightful outings with her students, a teacher introduces her class...
The Outline of Science Vol. 3
Author(s): J. Arthur Thomson The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in...
The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser
Author(s): Ray Vaughn Pierce The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser In Plain English, Or, Medicine...
The Peaceful Atom
Author(s): Bernice Kohn Hunt In this children’s science book from the early 1960s, the concept...
The Child’s Day
Author(s): Woods Hutchinson The Child’s Day, The Woods Hutchinson Health SeriesBy Woods Hutchinson, A.M., M.D....
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Author(s): Thornton W. Burgess The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written...
The Children’s Life of the Bee
Author(s): Maurice Maeterlinck Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life...
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
Author(s): Charles Darwin PART I. THE DESCENT OR ORIGIN OF MAN. Part 1 of 3...
The Bee People
Author(s): Margaret Warner Morley “The Honey-bees are buzzy-fuzzy little pepper pots” Thus this wonderful nature...
The Children’s Book of Birds
Author(s): Olive Thorne Miller The Children’s Book of Birds combines under a single cover the...
The Boys’ and Girls’ Pliny Vol. 4
Author(s): Pliny the ElderJohn S. White The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one...
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
Author(s): Thornton W. Burgess Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher....
The Evolutionist at Large
Author(s): Grant Allen These Essays originally appeared in the columns of the ‘St. James’s Gazette,’...
The Boys’ and Girls’ Pliny Vol. 2
Author(s): Pliny the ElderJohn S. White The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one...
The Birds of the Air
Author(s): John Frost In this book, aimed at children, the author provides a brief profile...
Searchlights on Health
Author(s): B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols SEARCHLIGHTS ON HEALTH. THE SCIENCE OF EUGENICSBy...
Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes
Author(s): Mary Earle Hardy Water is fascinating! Which child is not delighted by the sea...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007
Author(s): Various A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays,...
Star Stories for Little Folks
Author(s): Gertrude Chandler Warner Gertrude Chandler Warner, known mainly for her “Boxcar Children” series of...
The Autobiography of an Electron
Author(s): Charles R. Gibson “While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe,...
Sophistical Elenchi
Author(s): Aristotle The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle’s six texts on logic which...
The Adventures of a Grain of Dust
Author(s): Hallam Hawksworth This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all...
Short Nonfiction Collection
Author(s): Various A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the...
Stories of Starland
Author(s): Mary Proctor Henry asks his sister Mary about the sky. She tells him all...
Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome
Author(s): Sextus Julius Frontinus Frontinus’ Stratagems is a collection of examples of military stratagems from...
Seed-Babies
Author(s): Margaret Warner Morley Seed Babies piques the child’s interest about how seeds grow. It...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006
Author(s): Various A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays,...
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
Author(s): Robert Armitage Sterndale NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLON.By Robert A....
On the Parts of Animals
Author(s): Aristotle On the Parts of Animals (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ ΜΟΡΙΩΝ; Latin: De Partibus Animalium)...
Madam How and Lady Why
Author(s): Charles Kingsley Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such...