Children's Books

The Red Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books. The series was immensely popular and proved of great influence in chi..

Spontaneous Activity in Education

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori saw that children gained a sense of satisfaction through doing work of their own choosing, and that the role of the adult was to allow this natural ability of the child to flourish th..

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

Edith Howes

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories is a collection of three fairy tales with moral lessons written for children by Edith Annie Howes, a New Zealand teacher, educationalist, and writer of childre..

The Little Red Hen

Florence White Williams

The Little Red Hen is a Folk-tale from England written by Florence White Williams, an American artist and illustrator who is known for his popular works The Story of Little Black Sambo...

Folk Lore

James Napier

Folk Lore, Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century is a collection of folk tales written by James Napier, who is also the author of Manufacturing Art in Ancient Times, N..

Irish Fairy Tales

James Stephens

Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustr..

The Great Panjandrum Himself

Samuel Foote

The Great Panjandrum Himself is one of sixteen picture books created by the illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The book was published in 1885 by Frederick Warne & Co. It was the last book illustrated..

The Magic World

Edith Nesbit

The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesbit. It was first published in book form in 1912 by Macmillan and Co. Ltd., with illustrations by H. R. Millar and Gerald ..