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id: 25883
author: Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
title: Denslow's Humpty Dumpty
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flesch: 85
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summary:
  Copyright 1903 by W. W. Denslow Published, August 1903 * * Denslow's Picture Books for Children For these books W. W. Denslow has revised and adapted several of the best classical fairy tales.


id: 28125
author: Various
title: Dear Santa Claus
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words: 3645
sentence: 212
flesch: 90
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summary:
  [Illustration] Did you? asked little Susy, breathlessly. [Illustration] Another of their favorite stories is about the flower fairies who come and dance and sing for little children in the forest when it is very still and the sun is shining brightly.


id: 15684
author: Amerel
title: The Summer Holidays: A Story for Children
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words: 9187
sentence: 521
flesch: 91
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summary:
  See if you can tell it what Mr. Harvey told Samuel about bats, locusts, rivers, the rain, and sloths. Mr. Harvey said yes; and then John lifted it on a large sheet of paper, and threw it into the air.


id: 16046
author: Blaisdell, Mary Frances
title: Boy Blue and His Friends
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words: 11666
sentence: 1007
flesch: 101
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summary:
  After dinner Grandma and little Mary took their sewing and sat out under the old apple-tree in the garden. The stories progress gradually from very easy to more difficult matter, keeping pace with the child's increasing knowledge and ability,--the book being carefully arranged for use as a supplementary reader, or for home reading for the little ones. ~CONTENTS~ LITTLE BOY BLUE SNOWBALL FIRE-CRACKER BOY BLUE'S DREAM MARY'S LAMB THE LAMB AT SCHOOL LITTLE BO-PEEP HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK MISTRESS MARY TOMMY TUCKER FIVE LITTLE PIGS JACK AND JILL JACK HORNER'S PIE THE OLD WOMAN IN THE SHOE MISS MUFFET HUMPTY DUMPTY THE MOTHER GOOSE BOOK Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,


id: 11991
author: Dodge, Mary Mapes
title: Po-No-Kah: An Indian Tale of Long Ago
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words: 13734
sentence: 672
flesch: 82
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summary:
  As Tom gave him a hearty hand-shake and the rest crowded about him, all, even to little Kitty, thanking him over and over again, he waved them off with dignity. Casting one despairing look about him, and seeing not a possible chance of escape, even if he were not bound to the spot by the presence of Rudolph and Kitty, poor Tom entered upon the dread ordeal.


id: 17371
author: Gruelle, Johnny
title: Raggedy Andy Stories Introducing the Little Rag Brother of Raggedy Ann
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words: 15844
sentence: 914
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Daddy wished to catch a whole lot of Raggedy Ann's cheeriness and happiness and put all this down on paper, so that those who did not have Raggedy Ann dolls might see just how happy and smiling a rag doll can be. Is it any wonder that I was surprised when I saw the title of your book? Introduce Raggedy Andy to Raggedy Ann, dear Johnny.


id: 18190
author: Gruelle, Johnny
title: Raggedy Ann Stories
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words: 16399
sentence: 974
flesch: 93
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summary:
  The puppy dogs were surprised, and Fido was very sorry indeed, for he remembered how good Raggedy Ann had been to him and how she had rescued him from the dog-pound. The Dutch doll rolled off the doll sofa and said Mamma in his quavery voice, he was so surprised at hearing anyone speak so of beloved Raggedy Ann--dear Raggedy Ann, she of the candy heart, whom all the dolls loved.


id: 35773
author: Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden)
title: Violet: A Fairy Story
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words: 19711
sentence: 735
flesch: 79
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summary:
  She would stand on tiptoe, and laugh aloud when she saw the shadows fly away, like frightened birds, before the sunshine, which flooded all the valley now, and which lay upon the beautiful wreaths of mist that went curling up to meet it from the ponds and brooks, brightening them to dazzling whiteness--so like the clouds in heaven that Violet half believed the earth about her was beautiful as that far-off blue sky. The kitten went fast asleep in her lap, and Violet, folding her hands, looked up among the leaves, and across where the boughs parted a little into the wood, and down at her feet, where the grass grew so long and fine, and was sprinkled over with such pretty little leaves--as tiny, some of them, as Violet's finger nails, and yet as beautifully scolloped or pointed, and as perfectly finished, as the stoutest laurel or broadest oak leaf in the wood; and, noticing this, Violet wondered if God, who had taken as much pains in making little leaves as big ones, had not taken as much pains with, and didn't care as much for, little _people_ as big ones.


id: 39706
author: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
title: Mother West Wind's Animal Friends
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words: 25895
sentence: 1694
flesch: 94
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summary:
  When they met old Mr. Rabbit they would pretend not to see him, because he wore a white patch on the seat of his trousers. Back at the old house on the hill, where Granny Fox had discovered Peter Rabbit, was little Johnny Chuck, trembling with fright.


id: 14958
author: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
title: Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories
extension: .txt
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words: 27970
sentence: 1622
flesch: 92
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summary:
  Old Mr. Rabbit, the grandfather a thousand times removed of Peter Rabbit, was always getting into trouble. Yes, Sir, old Mr. Rabbit was always getting into trouble.


id: 27085
author: Sandburg, Carl
title: Rootabaga Stories
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words: 29022
sentence: 1517
flesch: 88
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summary:
  [Illustration: There on a high stool in a high tower, on a high hill sits the Head Spotter of the Weather Makers] It was easy enough for the rabbit who has long ears and no tail at all except a white thumb of cotton. Every morning when he went up the street with the two blue rats on his shoulders, blinking their eyes straight ahead and chewing their whiskers so they sometimes tickled the ears of old Rags Habakuk, sometimes women came running out on the front porch to look at him and say, Well, if he isn't a queer old mysterious ragman and if those ain't queer old mysterious blue rats! All the time the gold buckskin whincher and the power was working.


id: 33510
author: Leslie, Eliza
title: Stories for Helen
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words: 28325
sentence: 1630
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Juliet _did_ smile, and Madeline throwing her arms round her neck, kissed her, exclaiming, as she patted her cheek, There's my own good baby. Most of the faults and follies that were likely to be acquired at a show-boarding-school, Henrietta Harwood brought with her to the excellent and well-conducted establishment of Mrs. Middleton: but she had some redeeming qualities that made her rather a favourite with her new companions, and disposed her governess to hope that all would come right at last.


id: 20877
author: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
title: Mother West Wind's Children
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words: 29848
sentence: 1656
flesch: 92
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summary:
  By and by up came old Mr. Toad. Good morning, Danny Meadow Mouse, said old Mr. Toad, it's a fine morning.


id: 4357
author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
title: American Fairy Tales
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words: 32439
sentence: 1783
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Gouie would have asked more questions then, but another crowd of black men impatiently waited to ride on the back of the laughing hippopotamus. commanded Keo, remembering that black men have no tusks to swear by.


id: 163
author: Alcott, Louisa May
title: Flower Fables
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words: 34625
sentence: 1151
flesch: 81
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summary:
  IN a quiet, pleasant meadow, Beneath a summer sky, Where green old trees their branches waved, And winds went singing by; Where a little brook went rippling So musically low, And passing clouds cast shadows On the waving grass below; Where low, sweet notes of brooding birds Stole out on the fragrant air, And golden sunlight shone undimmed On all most fresh and fair;-- There bloomed a lovely sisterhood Of happy little flowers, Together in this pleasant home, Through quiet summer hours. We pity thee, foolish little flower, To trust what the false worm said; He will not come in a fairer dress, For he lies in the green moss dead.


id: 39757
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: Half-Hours with Jimmieboy
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words: 37191
sentence: 2122
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Hadn't I better send for the doctor? Does dogs frost-bite? queried Jimmieboy, looking around the room for a stick with which to beat the dog that had done the biting, if perchance it was a dog that was responsible. Whereupon Jimmieboy rubbed his eyes, and opened them wider than ever to find his papa bending over him, and saying the very words he had seen on the set piece.


id: 39871
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy
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words: 42399
sentence: 2454
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Mr. Jimmieboy will be sent forthwith to the violent ward. Meanwhile poor Jimmieboy was locked up in the violent ward.


id: 30953
author: Davis, Richard Harding
title: The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys
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words: 44409
sentence: 2609
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Men unafraid; men not afraid of fever or sudden death; not afraid to tell the truth--even to _you_. Anyway, says he, every smooth-coated dog is better than any hairy old camel like those St. Bernards, and if ever you're hungry down at the stables, young man, come up to the house and I'll give you a bone.


id: 32172
author: Wright, Henrietta Christian
title: Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860
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words: 45456
sentence: 1618
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Uncle Tom's Cabin_ within a few years, after which Mrs. Stowe turned her attention to the material that lay closer at hand, and began the publication of a series of New England life. It was a little world in which still lingered all the quaintness and simplicity of early New England life, and Lowell, imbibing these influences unconsciously in childhood, was able afterward to reproduce their flavor in his literary work and thus preserve them from oblivion.


id: 33927
author: Coolidge, Susan
title: Not Quite Eighteen
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words: 45062
sentence: 2528
flesch: 87
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summary:
  This is a nice place where they take care of little children who are ill, and make them well again, answered the nurse, brightly. Janet's father was a busy lawyer, and had little time to give to the study of his children's characters.


id: 27075
author: Mitchell, Lucy Sprague
title: Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
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words: 53203
sentence: 3820
flesch: 91
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summary:
  This is not new: the kindergarten gives domestic life a prominent place with little children. We hope this book will bring to parents and teachers what it has to us, a new method of approach to literature for little children, and to children the joy our children have in the stories themselves.


id: 19336
author: Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
title: The Tangled Threads
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words: 56064
sentence: 3673
flesch: 88
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summary:
  All this was within Hester; but without-- There had been but little room in Hester's life for music. Oh, Aunt Ellen, how can you say such a dreadful thing! Listen, replied Mrs. Howland; it's little bits of things that you don't think of.


id: 60625
author: Garis, Howard Roger
title: Uncle Wiggily's Story Book
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words: 61326
sentence: 4277
flesch: 95
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summary:
  But she doesn't know what I want! said poor Uncle Wiggily to himself. Do you mean to say you are going to hurt good, kind Uncle Wiggily, who has just given me a cherry pie? asked the horse quickly.


id: 19909
title: Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
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words: 84621
sentence: 4521
flesch: 85
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  With that true spirit of Christian charity which marked all his actions, he invariably chose out the homeliest and most neglected, and thus worthy Aunt Keziah, dear old soul, was for a time made quite prominent by his attentions.... Grandmother's face was radiant with satisfaction, as the wave of joyousness crept up higher and higher round her, till the elders, who stood keeping time with their heads and feet, began to tell one another how they had danced with their sweethearts in good old days gone by, and the elder women began to blush and bridle, and boast of steps that they could take in their youth, till the music finally subdued them, and into the dance they went. For myself, said little old Mr. Crooker, with a smile.


