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Marco Polo Travelling
Myths, Legends and Non-Fiction

Myths and Legends

Folk Tales of the Khasis

Legends of the Gods

Hawaiian Folk Tales

The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit

Nursery Magazine, 1875

The Travels of Marco Polo, by Marco Polo

Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee, by Davy Crockett

Color Key to North American Birds

Robin Hood
Robin Hood

You also might like The Robin Hood Project and Early Poems About Robin Hood

Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles and Stories of King Arthur and His Knights by Thomas Mallory

There is also a Camelot Project

A story that's a little like Robin Hood is Ivanhoe. It was written by an interesting man from Scotland named Sir Walter Scott. He preserved many legends of the Border Reivers, (who included your Beattie ancestors and who were fought by your Page ancestors!)

Leonardo Da Vinci: 

The Complete Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Billy the Kid
The History of Billy the Kid by Charles A. Siringo

Animals of the Past

Ghost Stories:

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Twilight Stories

Best Ghost Stories



Poems

Poems Every Child Should Know

Cautionary Tales for Children by Hillaire Belloc

Cole's Funny Picture Book

Fiction

Books by 'Wizard of Oz' author, L. Frank Baum (more coming soon, he wrote LOTS of them!) try Dot and Tot of Merryland

Books by E. Nesbit - one of the first authors to write about magic in the everyday world!

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

Stories for Children by Leo Tolstoy

Raggedy Ann Stories


Kaa's Hunt, 'The Jungle Book'
By Rudyard Kipling:

The Jungle Book

Just So Stories

Indian Tales

Peter Pan and Other Books by J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Peter and Wendy

The Little White Bird or Adventures in Kensington Gardens

Peter Pan
Sherlock Holmes and Other Books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs

Tarzan and Other Stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson 

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories for Children

Children's Book of Christmas Stories

By Daniel Defoe:

Robinson Crusoe

King of Pirates

The Scarlet Pimpernel  by Baroness Orczy

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahme

The Time Machine and other stories by H. G. Wells

The Three Muskateers by Alexander Dumas

Pinnochio
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The Adventures of Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi

The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Oliver Twist and Other Stories by Charles Dickens

Nonsense Books by Edward Lear

By Lewis Carroll:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Through the Looking Glass

Alice in Wonderland
The Hunting of the Snark

By Louisa May Alcott:

Little Women

Jo's Boys

Little Men

By Frances Hodgson Burnett:

The Secret Garden

A Little Princess (my favorite when I was little and it may be STILL!)

Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Princess and The Goblin
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margory Williams

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

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