Children's Books

Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit

Siddha Mohana Mitra

Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit is a collection of tales translated to English. These tales are not only of a kind to enchain the attention of children. They also illustrate well the close affinity..

Æsop's Fables - A Version for Young Readers

Aesop

The good fortune which has attended the earlier edition of this book is a proof that there is less occasion now than formerly to plead the cause of fables for use in elementary schools. And yet their ..

About Peggy Saville

Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

About Peggy Saville is a story for girls which introduces Peggy Saville who has left India to be educated in England. Written by Jessie Bell, later Jessie Mansergh, was an English writer bor..

Aunt Judy's Tales

Mrs. Alfred Gatty

Aunt Judy's Tales is a collection short stories for children written by Margaret Gatty, an English children's author and writer on marine biology. Some of her writings argue against Charles Darwi..

Baby Chatterbox

Anonymous

Baby Chatterbox is an illustreated collection of poems and short stories for children written by anonymous authors.Hop, hop, hop! In it came at the window, the dearest little yellow canary, not a..

Christmas Holidays at Merryvale

Alice Hale Burnett

Christmas Holidays at Merryvale is a collection of stories for children written by Alice Hale Burnett, an American author of children's books. She is best known for writing books set in a small t..

Five Little Peppers Abroad

Margaret Sidney

This book is the next in the series of the Five Little Peppers, by Margaret Sidney, after Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Five Little Peppers Midway. It continues the series where Ben, Polly..

Anecdotes of Animals

Anonymous

Anecdotes of Animals is a children's book about animals written by Anonymous authors.An abbot, a man of wit, and skilled in the making of new musical instruments, was ordered by Louis XI., king o..