Henry Carter Hull

Excerpt: "Tad Coon was lost! And Doctor Muskrat and Nibble felt pretty discouraged over their chances of ever seeing him again. All the same they meant to try. They sent word of a meeting to the Woodsfolk by everyone they met. When they reached the pond, Stripes Skunk was sitting out on Doctor Muskrat's flat stone, waiting for him. "I'm leaving," said he. "But I have to thank you for all you've done for me. Perhaps I'll come back some time." He seemed...

Le Morte d’Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory’s book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table. Edited by Alfred W. Pollard. “A text modernised as to its spelling, but in other respects in accurate accordance with Caxton’s text, as represented by Dr. Sommer’s reprint.”

Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, ungrammatical Middle French for

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Excerpt: "Since the childhood of the races, certain old-world stories have appeared in different form in the folklore of different nations, all bearing the stamp of the same source; the interest of primitive people in attributing human impulses and human lines of conduct to the animal world. Perhaps the earliest of all is The Kid Who Would Not Go, which corresponds to the old New England nursery tale of the Old Woman and Her Pig, and which, in its...

Excerpt: ""YES, children, I will tell you the story of Aunt Milly's diamonds; and in telling about them, you must hear the tale of my own life almost, because one is so mixed up with the other that they can scarcely be separated." The speaker, an old lady, looked pleasantly at a group of grandchildren, her Christmas visitors; who, tired with many a merry game, were clustering round her and asking for the story. It was Christmas Eve, and they had been...

Hettie's PirouetteHilda the hippopotamus and Hettie the heron both love the ballet. They join the Ballet school and begin training. They enter the end-of-year competition for couples (pas de deux) and perform five movements, the pose well known in the ballet Swan Lake, the movement that shows the bond between the two dancers in the ballet Le Diable à Quatre, the movement where the dancer being held by the partner is able to descend very low to the...

Excerpt: ""Take to the water, quick!" shouted Doctor Muskrat. "Climb a tree!" advised Chatter Squirrel, balancing on the tip end of a limb. And they had the Woodsfolk so excited they didn't know what to do. Most of them couldn't climb if they wanted to, and mighty few of them like to swim. So those who were there tried to run away, and those who weren't came to see what was going on. Tommy Peele's woods were just alive with scuttling and fluttering....

Marjorie resigns the senior class presidency in order to devote herself the the newly-formed Girl Scout troupe of which she is captain.

The Pirate Frog and Other Tales is a collection of very funny poems by W. A. Frisbie with delightful illustrations by Bart. Published 1901. - Google Books

Originally published in 1924, this collection The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen is illustrated with the magnificent Art Nouveau color illustrations of Kay Nielsen. It was a project that took Nielsen twelve years to complete, and his illustrations perfectly capture the other-worldly spirit of Andersen's subject matter. It includes such well-known and loved tales as "The Snow Queen," "The Real Princess," "The Hardy Tin Soldier" and "The Nightingale."...

Grampa in Oz (1924) is the eighteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Things are going from bad to worse in the dilapidated kingdom of Ragbad; even the rag crop is failing. To top it all off (or not), King Fumbo's head is blown away in a ferocious storm (with "ten thousand pounds of thunder"). Prince Tatters of Ragbad, and Grampa, a former soldier and the bravest...