Books

Originally a short story, then made into a play, this is a more developed story of the orphan girl left at a boarding school who is reduced to servitude, then rescued by a friend of her father’s. Read online at archive.org.

An Anglo-Indian orphan girl and and an English invalid find their cure in a garden.

A yellow lab, an ancient bull terrier and a Siamese cat make their way home across two hundred and fifty miles of Canadian wilderness.

When the big snow paralyzes the town, Katy goes to work and plows it out.

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When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel Mary Anne win the bid to dig the cellar for the new town hall in Popperville, they get a chance to prove that Mary Anne ‘can dig as much in a day as a hundred men in a week.’

Read online at archive.org. 

When Nate’s chicken lays an enormous egg, every one is anxious to see what will hatch.

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David and Chuck are off in their spaceship to rescue the world from the Brumblitron.

David and Chuck are approached by their neighbor Mr. Bass to build a space ship.

In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. And in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, she climbs through a mirror into a fantastical world.

Includes The Hunting of the Snark and poems from Rhyme? and Reason?, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Sylvie and Bruno. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Alice returns to Wonderland by way of the looking glass over the mantle and meets many queer people, including the Walrus and the Carpenter. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

A young girl named Dorothy takes a journey with three wooden statues who come alive on Christmas Eve. Read online at archive.org.

These humorous verse renderings of the familiar Aesop fables are ideal for memorization. Read online at archive.org.

Guy Wetmore Carryl brings his gift for comic verse to fairy tales. Read online at archive. org.

A poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great.

Before the gods that made the gods
Had seen their sunrise pass,
The White Horse of the White Horse Vale
Was cut out of the grass.

A collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction. Read online at archive.org.

John Walters and the members of the Tomahawk Club set out to explore a cave he has found.

John Walters and the members of the Tomahawk Club undertake the exploration of a cave he has discovered.

A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.

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The story of a wooden puppet who becomes a real boy. This edition has been shortened by the editor.