Young Readers Books

Fairy Tales for Workers' Children

Herminia zur Muhlen

The work of translating this little book of fairy tales for workers’ children is very small in comparison to the joy I get from the knowledge that you, my beloved young comrades, are going to enjoy it..

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales with illustrations by William Robinson. The first pair of storks who knew it had their summer quarters on a Viking’s log-house by the moor in Wendsyssel, which is in the co..

Grammar-land

M. L. Nesbitt

WHAT is Grammar-land? Where is Grammar-land? Have you ever been to Grammar-land? Wait a minute and you shall hear. You will not find Grammar-land marked on the globe, and I never saw a map of it; but ..

A Life Unveiled, by a Child of the Drumlins

Anonymous

I fancy that this “Child of the Drumlins” did not know she was living amid drumlins when she passed her youth there. She knew them only as the long, smooth, loaf-shaped hills that were scattered over ..

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 374, February 26, 1887

Various Authors

The only difficulty I know of in making this delicious dish is to avoid breaking the tomatoes, which are more liable to give way when they are hot than when they were first taken out of the tin. Shake..

The Young Supercargo - A Story of the Merchant Marine

William Drysdale

Patrolman McSweeny had been a Brooklyn policeman long enough to understand all the favorite police ways of stirring out homeless tramps who are so desperately wicked as to go to sleep in the warmest c..

Next Stop, Nowhere!

Dick Purcell

Meanwhile, the elevator operator, upon finding he could not move the elevator, returned to reassure the occupants. He went to the seventh floor and called down very cheerily, "Everything's all right, ..

The Strange Likeness

Harriet Pyne Grove

Shirley’s mother smiled. “It would be better for you to learn more definitely, daughter, just what your classical father is going to do over there. I can assure you that we are not going to bring home..