Books on Topic: 'Children'

This is the classic story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves in India: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther...

Helen's Babies is a humorous novel by American journalist and author John Habberton, first published in 1876. The book's full title is: Helen's Babie...

If you've heard and loved that delightful nursery rhyme/lullaby, Wynken Blynken and Nod you'd certainly enjoy browsing through its creator Eugene Fiel...

Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work w...

This is the story of a little girl from New York who moves with her family to Florida in the late 19th Century.

This is one of several adaptations of famous classics made by Lucy Aikin under the pen name Mary Godolphin, using exclusively words of one syllable. T...

Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. These tales are about Viking adventures exploring the world. They...

This book follows the adventures of Bunny Brown, a 6-year old lively little boy, and his Sister Sue, a happy 5-year old little girl. You will enjoy le...

This charming book for children is full of interesting facts about all sorts of plants, insects, birds and animals and how they all help to enrich the...

A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythica...

The book opens with a little girl, Betsy, wishing for another Alice book. She passes into a dream, and finds in the attic a book which begins with Ali...

This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths!

A collection of fairy tales, where most of the types are recognizable among European fairy tales, but with their own touches. I suspect literary influ...

There was formerly, in the most fertile part of India, a city called Pushpapuri, the capital of Magadha, magnificent as a mine of jewels, abounding in...

A collection of stories explaining flowers that seem wholly fabricated by the author himself. Instead of focusing on the original intent of European l...

Beautiful simple tale of a brother and two sisters who go to live temporarily at a lovely house called Rosebuds. There they find a hidden door in the...

She went from a passenger on a nice cruiser to a dish washer where some of the passengers snubbing her when she'd taken a job dishwashing upon arrivin...

The first story is Mr. Smith's version of the Story of Noah's Ark. He then tells us the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Next we join a hen...

Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they...

"A story of hope and achievement against slavery, of right and wrong. It transcends race creed, class and national boundaries. A story that even two h...

A mediocre book of mediocre stories written to resemble fairy tales. Suffers from historical defects such as misogyny, racism, violence, and religion.

Short bedtime stories for young children. Some were cute and others a little strange, but overall they were fairly interesting and enjoyable.

A charming fairytale -- with realistic touches -- from the mid-19th Century.

I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the particular kind of fairies that inhabit the Land of Morning Splendo...