Marco Polo Travelling |
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 |
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 |
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' |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald