Tuesday, October 5, 2010

This Years Booklist

Trial and Triumph (Church history from a definite Protestant perspective) by Richard Hannula
An Island Story by H.E. Marshall, chapters 1-21 (this book known as Our Island Story in England) Free Audio at Librivox Part 1, Part 2
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin (see note below detailing which ones to include this year)
Viking Tales by Jennie Hall (hero stories and myths of Norway) Part 1, chapters 1-11
Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling
Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock,
The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess (six chapters per term)
Online pictures and information for each chapter More Bird Photos Bird songs online
AO's free collection of over 200 classic children's poems.Available by month, 20 poems per page (click Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec) or as a single document
The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter (also online here )
Nine Tales
Parables from Nature by Margaret Gatty
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder


Fifty Famous Stories Retold

The following chapters are scheduled:
The Sword of Damocles (Greek)
Damon and Pythias; and A Laconic Answer (Greek)
The Brave Three HundredAlexander and Bucephelas; and *Diogenes (Greek)
The Story of Regulus (Roman)
Cornelia's Jewels (Roman)
Horatius at the Bridge (Roman)
Cincinnatus (Roman)
Androclus and the Lion (Roman)
King Alfred and the Beggar (Saxon England)
The Story of William Tell (Switzerland 1300's)
Arnold Winkelried; (1386)
Bruce and the Spider (Britain, 1329)
The Black Douglas (James Douglas, Britain, d 1330)
Whittington (Britain, 1423)
The *Inchcape Rock (1500's)
Casablanca (1500's)
Sir Philip Sidney (1586) and *The Ungrateful SoldierGeorge Washington and his Hatchet; .5 page and *Doctor Goldsmith (1774)
Picciola (1800's)
How Napoleon Crossed the Alps (1800's)
Maximillian and the Gooseherd (King of Bavaria, 1800's)
Antonio Canova (1822)
Grace Darling (1842)
The Kingdoms (Frederick William, King of Prussia)

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