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- 11991
- author: Dodge, Mary Mapes
- title: Po-No-Kah: An Indian Tale of Long Ago
- date: None
- words: 13734
- flesch: 82
- 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.
- keywords: answer; arms; bag; bear; bessie; best; big; bouncer; boy; bright; brother; children; close; course; creature; dance; day; days; dead; dear; deer; delight; direction; dog; escape; eyes; faces; father; fearful; feet; fellow; forest; frightened; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; heart; hedden; help; hennessy; home; hope; hunt; hunting; indian; instant; kah; kind; kitty; like; little; long; look; man; medicine; men; moment; mother; mrs; neighbor; new; night; old; ones; pale; party; poor; prisoners; qua; red; rudolph; savages; search; shoot; skins; spirit; spot; strange; stream; strong; sure; time; tom; tribe; turn; vain; voice; warrior; water; way; white; wife; wigwam; wild; women; wonder; words; work; year; young; youngsters
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- 14958
- author: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
- title: Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories
- date: None
- words: 27970
- flesch: 92
- 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.
- keywords: adventures; ago; away; bear; best; better; big; billy; breezes; business; buzzard; children; chipmunk; chuck; chug; coat; coon; course; coyote; day; eyes; fine; fly; forest; fox; frog; good; grandfather; grandfather frog; great; green; happy; hard; head; home; house; johnny; king; legs; little; little mr; long; look; meadow; merry; mistah; mother; muskrat; nature; neighbors; ol'; old; old mother; old mr; people; peter; peter rabbit; place; pool; possum; rabbit; reddy; right; rum; sir; skunk; spotty; story; striped; sure; tail; thing; thought; time; trouble; unc; voice; water; way; work; world
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- 15684
- author: Amerel
- title: The Summer Holidays: A Story for Children
- date: None
- words: 9187
- flesch: 91
- 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.
- keywords: air; alice; animals; barn; bats; boys; chapter; children; corn; country; cousin; daddy; day; dog; evening; father; field; fig; fruit; garden; good; great; ground; hall; harvey; hawk; house; illustration; iron; john; large; little; locusts; long; man; near; old; people; place; poor; rock; samuel; small; stones; summer; thomas; time; tree; uncle; walk; water
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- 16046
- author: Blaisdell, Mary Frances
- title: Boy Blue and His Friends
- date: None
- words: 11666
- flesch: 101
- 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,
- keywords: alice; baby; big; blue; box; boy; boy blue; boys; brown; children; christmas; course; cow; day; eyes; fire; fleecy; good; grandma; hall; happy; hill; home; house; illustration; jack; jill; lamb; little; long; mary; miss; morning; mother; mrs; old; party; peep; pig; pigs; play; pretty; room; school; sheep; shoe; sister; smith; snowball; time; tommy; water; white
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- 163
- author: Alcott, Louisa May
- title: Flower Fables
- date: None
- words: 34625
- flesch: 81
- 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.
- keywords: annie; arms; beautiful; beauty; bee; bees; bell; beneath; bent; birds; blossom; blue; breast; bright; broad; bud; care; cheer; child; clouds; cold; comfort; cool; crown; cruel; dark; day; dear; deeds; deep; dew; dim; dreary; drooping; dwell; earth; elf; elves; eva; eyes; face; fairies; fairy; farewell; fire; flowers; fly; forest; form; fragrant; fresh; friends; frost; garden; garments; gay; gayly; gentle; gift; golden; good; great; green; hair; hands; happiness; happy; hard; harm; head; heart; help; high; home; honey; joy; kind; kindly; king; land; lay; leaf; leaves; length; life; light; lily; little; little fairy; long; longer; look; love; lovely; loving; moss; mother; music; near; patient; place; pleasant; poor; power; pure; queen; quiet; ripple; rose; round; sad; saw; sea; singing; sky; sleep; sleeping; snow; soft; sorrow; spirits; spring; strange; summer; sunlight; sunny; sweet; task; tears; tender; tenderly; things; thistle; thistledown; thoughts; time; trees; vain; violet; voices; warm; watch; water; waves; weary; welcome; white; wide; wild; wind; wings; words; work; worm
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- 17371
- author: Gruelle, Johnny
- title: Raggedy Andy Stories Introducing the Little Rag Brother of Raggedy Ann
- date: None
- words: 15844
- flesch: 93
- 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.
- keywords: ann; arm; arms; beautiful; bed; bunny; candy; cheery; clem; daddy; day; dollies; dolls; door; dutch; easter; eyes; feet; fido; floor; french; fun; good; gran'ma; hands; happy; head; henny; horse; illustration; inside; left; little; long; mama; man; marcella; medicine; new; nice; nursery; pipe; pretty; pull; quiet; raggedy andy; rest; right; run; shell; shiny; singing; smile; snow; soft; stairs; taffy; thinking; thought; time; tiny; uncle; uncle clem; water; way; white; wish; wooden; years
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- 18190
- author: Gruelle, Johnny
- title: Raggedy Ann Stories
- date: None
- words: 16399
- flesch: 93
- 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.
- keywords: annabel; arms; away; basket; bed; boots; button; candy; cat; clean; clem; clothes; cotton; daddy; day; dear; dinah; dog; dollies; dolls; door; dress; eyes; face; fairies; fido; find; floor; freddy; french; good; hair; hand; happy; head; heart; hen; hens; hole; home; house; illustration; kite; kittens; little; love; lovely; mamma; marcella; mistress; morning; new; nice; night; nursery; old; penny; peterkins; play; puppy; raggedy ann; room; shoe; smile; soft; soldier; thomas; time; tin; uncle; way; white; window; yarn
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- 19336
- author: Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
- title: The Tangled Threads
- date: None
- words: 56064
- flesch: 88
- 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.
- keywords: 'em; afternoon; ann; apple; aunt; auntie; automobile; away; bad; beads; beautiful; bed; believe; best; big; bit; black; blake; blue; boat; bob; bobby; book; box; boy; boys; breath; brother; brown; bugs; business; but--; cabin; caleb; care; carrie; carroll; cents; chair; change; cheeks; children; chin; christmas; church; city; clayton; closed; codfish; coming; continued; corner; cost; counter; course; cousin; crumbs; cry; curious; cut; dad; danny; dat; daughter; day; days; dear; dinner; disease; dishes; doctor; dog; dollars; door; doorway; downstairs; early; edith; end; ethel; evening; eyes; face; family; famous; farm; father; fear; feet; fine; fingers; floor; flushed; folks; foot; fred; friends; fur; george; girl; glad; glance; goin'; gold; good; grass; gray; great; green; half; hall; hands; hannah; happy; hard; harold; harriet; hat; hawkins; head; heart; helen; help; hephzibah; herbert; hester; high; hitty; home; hope; hours; house; howland; humph; hurried; husband; idea; interest; james; jared; jason; jasper; jessica; jest; jim; jimmy; john; joy; kate; kind; kitchen; lady; laugh; left; letter; life; like; lips; little; livingstone; long; longer; look; lost; lots; love; low; ma'am; magazine; man; margaret; marvin; mary; matter; mean; middle; mike; millionaire; mind; minister; minutes; miss; moment; monday; money; month; morning; morrow; mother; mrs; murmured; music; muttered; near; need; new; nice; night; note; o'clock; o'flannigan; office; old; open; pair; paper; parlor; past; pause; pay; penelope; people; piano; picture; place; play; polly; poor; possible; present; pretty; professor; proud; quick; rain; rathburn; raymond; read; relief; rest; robert; room; rose; round; run; sarah; school; self; sell; set; seth; sharp; short; shut; sick; silence; silent; sir; sitting; skates; small; smile; squire; stay; steps; store; straight; stranger; street; stub; subject; sudden; summer; sun; supper; sure; table; tell; ter; thank; thar; thing; thought; throat; time; tired; tommy; town; turning; uncle; voice; wa'n't; want; watch; way; week; wentworth; wetherby; wheelers; white; wife; window; woman; wonder; words; work; world; yard; years; yer; young
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- 19909
- author: None
- title: Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
- date: None
- words: 84621
- flesch: 85
- summary: 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.
- keywords: adams; afraid; afternoon; air; amsterdam; animal; answer; apples; apron; arms; aunt; axe; baby; ball; bank; barn; bear; beautiful; bed; beetle; belding; bennett; bert; best; beth; betty; bible; big; bill; birds; bit; black; blue; bluff; boaz; body; book; boston; box; boys; bread; breem; broken; brother; brown; brush; bullets; business; busy; butter; cake; calm; camp; candy; care; cat; cents; certain; chance; cheeks; cheerful; chickens; chief; children; chintz; chip; christmas; church; city; clear; clock; close; colchester; cold; coming; company; continued; cook; corn; corner; country; courage; course; cover; crust; cry; curtius; cut; cyrus; dance; dark; date; daughter; davis; day; days; deacon; dead; deal; dear; death; deep; delight; dick; different; dinner; dish; dishes; doll; dollars; dominie; donald; door; doubt; dozen; dreadful; dressed; dry; early; ears; earth; eating; eggs; elliott; ely; end; england; eph; evening; everett; expected; eyes; ezra; face; fact; fair; family; farm; fast; father; fear; feet; fellow; fields; fine; finished; fire; fisherman; fit; floor; folks; following; food; footnote; forest; freddie; fresh; friends; fruit; fun; game; gander; geese; general; gentle; george; ghost; girl; glad; gobbler; god; going; good; governor; gown; grace; grandmother; grandpa; gray; great; greedy; green; guess; gun; guy; hair; half; hand; hannah; happy; hard; harvest; hat; hath; head; heart; heaven; heavy; heer; helen; help; high; hill; hiram; hitty; hold; hole; home; honk; hope; horses; hour; house; hungry; hurt; husband; indian; inglefield; inventor; jack; jarvis; jason; jessie; joe; john; johnnie; jonas; jonathan; joy; kill; kind; kindly; king; kitchen; kittredge; knock; know; land; large; late; laugh; laura; leave; left; letter; life; like; line; lips; little; little old; log; lois; long; look; looking; lord; lost; lot; lots; love; luck; lucy; mad; madam; majesty; making; mamma; man; manner; married; mary; master; mean; meat; merry; miles; milk; miltiades; mince; mind; minister; minty; minute; miss; mistress; mitchel; molasses; moment; money; months; moose; morning; morrow; mother; mother mitchel; mrs; naomi; nathaniel; nature; near; neck; need; nepash; new; news; nice; november; nuts; obadiah; obed; obie; october; old; old man; ones; open; order; outside; oven; page; pale; papa; paper; pard; parents; parson; party; patem; pay; people; picture; piece; pies; pine; pink; place; play; pleasant; plenty; plum; pocket; polly; poor; pose; possible; potatoes; poultry; pounds; power; prayers; present; pretty; priscilla; proud; prudence; pudding; pumpkin; question; quick; rain; raisins; ready; real; rest; rich; ridges; right; ring; river; road; roast; roof; room; rose; rough; round; run; ruth; sad; salmagundi; sam; sarah; school; sea; season; seat; second; sell; sense; set; shack; sharp; shot; silence; silver; single; sir; sister; skid; sleep; small; smile; snow; sober; soft; song; sons; sorry; sort; soul; soup; spirit; spot; spread; spring; standing; state; stone; story; strange; street; strength; submit; sugar; summer; sun; sunday; sure; surprise; sweet; sylvia; sylvy; table; talk; tart; teeth; tender; thankful; thanksgiving; thanksgiving day; thanksgiving dinner; things; thinking; thompson; thought; tildy; time; tiny; tired; todd; tom; town; trees; true; turkey; turn; twins; uncle; usual; vain; valley; vast; village; virginia; visit; voice; waddle; wagon; wait; waiting; walk; wall; want; warm; water; way; weak; weather; wedding; week; west; wheat; white; wife; wild; window; wing; winter; wish; wishbone; woman; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; yard; year; young; youth
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- 20877
- author: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
- title: Mother West Wind's Children
- date: None
- words: 29848
- flesch: 92
- summary: By and by up came old Mr. Toad. Good morning, Danny Meadow Mouse, said old Mr. Toad, it's a fine morning.
- keywords: away; bag; bear; big; billy; bobby; bowser; brown; bush; busy; chipmunk; chuck; coat; coon; course; cry; danny; day; ears; eyes; fast; foolish; fox; frog; good; grandfather; grandfather frog; great; green; green meadows; happy; home; hooty; jimmy; joe; johnny; johnny chuck; jolly; king; laugh; lily; little; little breezes; little meadow; little path; lone; lone little; long; look; meadow; meadow mouse; merry little; mink; morning; mother; mouse; mouth; nature; new; nuts; old; old mother; old mr; otter; owl; pad; path; people; peter; peter rabbit; play; pool; rabbit; reddy; reddy fox; right; round; secret; skunk; squirrel; striped; suit; sun; tail; thought; time; toad; tree; way; west; white; wind; world; yellow; young
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- 25883
- author: Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
- title: Denslow's Humpty Dumpty
- date: None
- words: 1067
- flesch: 85
- 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.
- keywords: bright; children; denslow; fall; farmer; hard; heart; hen; humpty; illustration; little; new; water; wife
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- 27075
- author: Mitchell, Lucy Sprague
- title: Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
- date: None
- words: 53203
- flesch: 91
- 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.
- keywords: adult; adventure; afraid; air; animals; arms; art; attempt; auto; away; baby; bang; barn; basket; bed; better; big; bit; black; blue; board; boat; boris; boys; breakfast; brook; brush; button; calf; calling; car; carpenter; chicken; children; chug; city; clopperty; close; clothes; coal; cock; content; cotton; country; course; cow; cows; cut; dan; day; dear; deep; different; dirty; doodle; door; dresses; early; east; eben; egg; eggs; end; engine; engineer; enormous; environment; experiences; expression; eyes; face; facts; familiar; farmer; fast; father; feel; feet; fence; fire; fish; fly; form; frog; funny; girl; good; goodbye; grass; great; green; grocery; hair; hands; hay; head; help; hen; high; hole; home; horse; human; illustration; jog; jump; kachunk; kathump; kind; lake; language; large; leaves; left; life; lip; literature; little; little boy; little children; little girl; little lake; little new; long; look; looking; lots; love; man; marni; material; matter; men; meow; method; middle; milk; moo; morning; mother; motor; nancy; near; need; new; noise; old; old dan; olds; open; pail; pat; pattern; pedro; people; personal; peter; physical; pipe; pitter; place; play; pleasure; poor; present; process; puff; pull; purrrr; queer; questions; ready; real; red; relationships; right; river; road; robert; rock; rocking; room; rooster; round; run; ruth; sand; saw; school; scraper; sea; second; sense; shell; shiny; silly; simple; singing; sky; sleep; slow; small; smoke; social; song; south; speed; spot; station; steady; steamer; steps; stories; story; straight; stream; street; strong; subway; summer; sun; sure; table; tales; terms; things; thinking; thought; thum; time; tom; toot; train; trees; turn; use; verse; wagon; walk; warm; water; waves; way; west; wheels; white; wide; wild; window; wish; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; year; yellow; york; young
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- 27085
- author: Sandburg, Carl
- title: Rootabaga Stories
- date: None
- words: 29022
- flesch: 88
- 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.
- keywords: accordion; animals; baby; balloons; bibs; big; bimber; black; blind; blixie; blue; blue wind; boy; broom; buckskin; cash; cistern; committee; corn; country; cream; day; diamond; doll; early; ears; eyes; face; fairies; far; father; feet; fingers; fire; flim; flongboos; foxes; gimme; girl; goat; gold; good; goose; gray; green; habakuk; hair; half; handle; hat; head; high; home; horse; illustration; jack; jason; leaves; left; legs; letter; like; little; liver; long; look; lost; lucky; man; mittens; molasses; money; moon; morning; new; night; nose; onions; people; pigs; place; policeman; popcorn; potato; power; procession; puffs; questions; rabbits; rag; rags; railroad; rats; red; rootabaga; sad; secret; shoes; silver; sky; skyscrapers; sleep; slippers; snow; song; spot; squiff; stories; straight; street; summer; sun; tails; thumb; ticket; time; tin; tip; tracks; traffic; train; uncles; understand; vest; village; way; weather; wedding; whincher; whistle; white; wind; winter; wishes; year; yellow; young; zigzag
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- 28125
- author: Various
- title: Dear Santa Claus
- date: None
- words: 3645
- flesch: 90
- 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.
- keywords: bessie; big; children; chimney; christmas; claus; day; dog; fairies; fairy; good; grandma; great; happy; head; house; illustration; little; long; nelly; night; nose; philip; pretty; santa; stockings; stories; time
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- 30953
- author: Davis, Richard Harding
- title: The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys
- date: None
- words: 44409
- flesch: 87
- 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.
- keywords: afraid; air; answer; arms; arrest; awful; barbara; barkeeper; barn; beat; beautiful; believe; best; better; big; bit; black; blood; blue; boat; book; box; boy; boys; bull; burdett; cab; calls; captain; car; care; carr; carroll; chain; champion; city; class; clerk; close; cold; company; corner; country; course; cries; crowd; cuba; dad; darkness; david; day; days; dead; detective; dog; dogs; door; dorothy; driver; dwyer; ears; editor; emily; engine; excitement; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; fellow; fighting; fine; fingers; fire; free; friends; gallegher; gate; gentleman; german; golf; good; grandfather; great; gun; hade; hair; half; hand; hard; hastings; hat; head; heart; hefflefinger; help; high; hill; hold; home; hot; hour; house; hurt; inside; island; jimmie; jimmy; jocks; judge; kennel; keppler; kid; kind; knees; lady; large; late; laughs; leave; left; legs; letters; life; lights; like; little; live; long; longer; looking; man; master; men; miles; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; near; need; new; news; newspaper; night; nodded; nolan; nose; office; old; open; outside; paper; past; people; philadelphia; pilot; place; police; present; press; puppy; quick; railroad; read; real; red; ribbons; ring; road; room; round; royal; run; sawdust; scout; sea; set; sharp; shot; shoulder; sir; sleep; snow; son; sons; sorry; spoke; sporting; spy; stables; standing; station; stone; stop; story; straight; stranger; street; sun; tail; thing; thorne; thought; throat; time; town; train; trouble; tug; turn; unknown; van; voice; vorst; walk; wall; war; washington; water; way; week; white; wife; work; world; wyndham; york; young; young man; youth
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- 32172
- author: Wright, Henrietta Christian
- title: Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860
- date: None
- words: 45456
- flesch: 65
- 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.
- keywords: able; academy; account; adventures; allan; american; american literature; atlantic; audubon; author; away; bancroft; battle; beautiful; beauty; beginning; best; birds; book; boston; boy; boyhood; boys; brave; brilliant; british; bryant; cambridge; camp; canada; career; cause; celebrated; century; chapter; character; charming; chief; childhood; children; church; cities; city; civilization; class; clever; collection; college; colonies; composition; conquest; cooper; corner; country; course; court; curious; daily; dark; day; day life; days; death; delight; delightful; description; devoted; different; discipline; distinguished; door; dream; dutch; earliest; early; education; effect; eliot; emerson; england; english; entire; essays; europe; evening; events; existence; experiences; exquisite; eyes; fact; fairy; faithful; fame; familiar; family; famous; far; farm; father; favorite; fiction; fields; fire; fitting; flowers; foreign; forest; form; france; freedom; french; friend; future; garden; general; generation; genius; gift; gold; good; great; greatest; green; half; hand; happy; harriet; harvard; hawthorne; head; heart; hero; hiawatha; high; highest; hills; historian; history; holmes; home; honor; hope; hours; house; human; humanity; idea; imagination; important; independence; indian; indian life; influence; inspiration; interest; irving; james; john; joy; king; kitchen; knickerbocker; knowledge; known; lake; language; large; later; leatherstocking; legends; lessons; letters; liberty; life; life work; like; literary; literary work; literature; little; live; living; long; longfellow; lost; love; lowell; magazine; making; man; master; material; meadows; meeting; memories; memory; men; mexico; midst; miles; military; mind; minister; mississippi; modern; moment; money; months; moors; mother; motley; mountains; mrs; narrative; nation; national; native; nature; naval; navy; new; new england; new world; news; night; noble; north; note; novelist; novels; old; old world; order; original; pages; papers; parkman; past; pathetic; people; period; periodicals; peru; philip; picture; picturesque; pioneers; place; plains; play; pleasant; poems; poet; poetic; poetry; point; political; popular; possession; post; power; prescott; present; prose; public; publication; pupils; puritan; quiet; race; reader; reading; ready; real; red; region; reputation; return; revolution; river; romance; romantic; room; salem; savage; scene; school; sea; search; second; secretary; sense; series; set; settlement; ship; short; shows; sketches; small; snow; songs; soul; spain; spanish; spirit; spring; stage; states; stories; stowe; strange; streams; streets; struggle; student; studies; study; subject; success; summer; sunday; tales; thought; time; title; touch; town; trees; tribes; true; united; unknown; valley; verses; village; vision; visit; volume; walls; war; washington; way; wealth; week; west; white; whittier; wife; wild; william; wind; winter; women; wood; words; work; world; writer; writing; yankee; years; years old; york; young; youth
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- 33510
- author: Leslie, Eliza
- title: Stories for Helen
- date: None
- words: 28325
- flesch: 81
- 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.
- keywords: adelaide; afternoon; aunt; bad; ball; beautiful; bed; benson; best; better; books; business; caldwell; care; cause; cecilia; children; church; cloak; closet; clothes; cold; cook; cotillon; course; dance; day; dear; desire; determined; diana; dinner; disette; dollar; door; dress; edward; evering; excellent; eyes; face; family; father; feast; flowers; french; friend; frock; girls; good; governess; great; hair; half; hand; happy; harwood; head; henrietta; home; hope; house; idleness; improper; isabella; jelly; josephine; juliet; kind; ladies; lady; lansdowne; large; leave; length; lessons; life; little; long; longer; loxley; madame; madeline; malcolm; manner; marbury; mary; middleton; mind; minutes; miss; moment; money; morning; morrow; mortlake; mother; mrs; new; night; note; oil; old; parents; parlour; people; place; play; pleasure; poor; possible; reading; renwick; room; rosalie; rosalind; rosamond; round; school; secret; servant; set; shelf; short; sister; small; sorry; stairs; street; summer; table; tales; tea; tell; theatre; thing; thought; time; trouble; usual; venus; way; week; white; wish; woman; work; years; young
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- 33927
- author: Coolidge, Susan
- title: Not Quite Eighteen
- date: None
- words: 45062
- flesch: 87
- 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.
- keywords: 16mo; afraid; air; alice; amy; apt; arms; aunt; authority; baby; bad; barbara; beautiful; bed; believe; best; better; big; bird; bit; blue; boat; book; boy; boys; bread; bright; broken; brothers; brown; bunny; busy; candles; care; carpenter; catch; chance; cheeks; children; close; clothes; cloud; coco; cold; cool; corn; corner; country; course; cousin; crying; cut; cynthia; dark; day; days; deal; dear; deep; delightful; different; dimple; dolly; door; dotty; dreadful; dress; drew; early; easy; effie; elsie; end; eunice; evening; excited; eyes; face; fact; fairy; fall; family; far; farm; father; fear; feast; feet; figure; fire; flamingo; flint; floor; folks; foot; forest; fox; fresh; frightened; fun; gale; gervas; ghost; girls; glad; good; great; green; habit; hair; half; hand; happy; hard; hassan; head; heart; help; hesse; hester; high; hill; hold; home; horses; hot; hotel; hour; house; hung; hurry; idea; illustrations; jack; janet; jean; jessie; jim; katy; keene; kind; kitchen; kitty; lancey; large; leave; left; legs; life; like; little; long; longer; look; looking; lost; louis; love; lovely; luck; madge; making; mamma; man; marsh; mary; matter; mean; mercy; mind; minute; missy; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; near; neck; ned; need; new; nice; night; nursey; old; ones; open; papa; paper; pass; past; patty; pauline; people; person; pink; place; pleasant; pleasure; pony; poor; presence; pretty; price; proud; queen; ready; real; red; rest; reuben; rich; roger; room; round; run; safe; school; sea; seat; sense; set; silver; sister; sleep; small; smoke; snow; sorry; sort; stepmother; stories; story; straight; strange; strong; summer; supper; sure; sweet; table; talk; tall; thee; things; thought; thy; time; tired; tone; trouble; true; turn; uncle; village; visit; voice; want; water; way; weather; week; white; wide; wind; window; wing; winter; wish; wolves; woman; wonderful; woods; word; work; worth; years; yellow; young
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- 35773
- author: Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden)
- title: Violet: A Fairy Story
- date: None
- words: 19711
- flesch: 79
- 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.
- keywords: alfred; beautiful; berries; better; birds; birthday; blossoms; blue; books; boughs; bright; brook; care; carriage; chapter; child; children; close; contentment; cool; cottage; cup; day; dear; delicate; doctor; door; dust; eyes; face; fairies; fairy; father; field; fine; flowers; fly; friends; garden; girl; glad; god; golden; good; grass; great; green; hair; half; hands; happy; head; heart; hill; home; hop; house; hut; kind; kitten; kitty; lady; large; leaves; leg; life; light; little; little girl; long; look; love; mabel; man; mary; money; morning; mother; narcissa; new; old; people; place; poor; pride; purple; queen; reuben; rich; round; school; splendid; stems; story; sun; sunny; sunshine; sure; sweet; thing; thinking; thought; time; tired; toady; tree; vines; violet; walk; warm; watching; water; way; white; wild; wings; woman; wood; work; world; young
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- 39706
- author: Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
- title: Mother West Wind's Animal Friends
- date: None
- words: 25895
- flesch: 94
- 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.
- keywords: bark; big; billy; blacksnake; blacky; bowser; breezes; brown; catch; chipmunk; chuck; crow; danny; day; eggs; eyes; farmer; fish; forest; fox; frog; good; grandfather; granny; grass; great; green; happy; head; home; house; jay; jimmy; joe; johnny; johnny chuck; lily; little; little breezes; little meadow; long; look; meadow; merry; merry little; mink; morning; mother; mrs; muskrat; new; old; old mr; otter; panther; path; people; peter; peter rabbit; pool; porcupine; porky; prickly; reddy; reddy fox; right; round; run; sammy; sharp; skunk; stranger; striped; suit; thought; time; toad; water; way; west; white; wind; world
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- 39757
- author: Bangs, John Kendrick
- title: Half-Hours with Jimmieboy
- date: None
- words: 37191
- flesch: 89
- 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.
- keywords: afraid; air; alarm; answer; asleep; awful; bad; beautiful; bed; believe; best; better; big; bird; bit; bite; blank; boat; book; boys; brother; children; chimney; choo; claus; cold; comet; course; cracker; creature; day; days; deal; dear; dictionary; door; dreadful; dream; dude; dwarf; end; eyes; face; fact; far; fast; father; feet; fellow; fine; fire; flat; floor; flowers; forepate; friend; frost; funny; garden; gas; getting; giant; good; great; half; hand; hard; hat; hats; head; heart; help; high; home; hours; house; huge; hurt; idea; illustration; jack; jimmieboy; joke; jumping; kind; king; know; laugh; laureate; left; life; lips; little; long; looking; lost; lot; lovely; mamma; man; marmy; matter; mean; middle; mind; minute; moment; morning; mother; nate; new; nice; nonsense; old; pad; papa; peanuts; pencil; people; picture; place; poem; poetry; poor; queer; red; rest; right; river; rocket; roof; room; run; russ; santa; saw; secretary; set; shake; small; smile; snowman; song; sort; stairs; stand; state; story; stove; strange; street; sun; sure; sweet; tennis; things; thought; time; tiny; toys; trouble; true; voice; warm; water; way; white; window; wings; words; world; years
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- 39871
- author: Bangs, John Kendrick
- title: Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy
- date: None
- words: 42399
- flesch: 89
- summary: Mr. Jimmieboy will be sent forthwith to the violent ward. Meanwhile poor Jimmieboy was locked up in the violent ward.
- keywords: able; afraid; air; animals; answer; apple; baby; bad; battery; beautiful; bed; bee; bell; best; better; bicycle; big; bikey; book; box; brownie; bush; button; care; cat; ceiling; cent; children; christmas; circus; claus; core; country; course; creature; custard; day; dear; difference; dollars; door; dude; easy; electricity; end; eyes; face; fact; fairy; father; feet; fellow; fine; finest; fire; floor; food; foot; fred; friend; funny; gas; glad; good; great; half; hall; hand; hard; hat; head; home; hospital; hotel; house; hullo; hurry; idea; illustration; imp; inn; inside; jimmieboy; jump; jumping; kind; landlord; laugh; lawn; left; library; like; little; live; lobster; long; look; lot; mamma; man; matter; mean; mind; minutes; moment; money; morning; mother; mouth; music; new; nice; nursery; old; open; papa; people; picture; pie; pies; pixyweevil; place; play; pneumatic; poem; poetry; porter; pretty; pump; queer; rake; ready; real; red; ride; right; ring; room; rose; round; rubber; running; santa; saturn; saw; school; set; shark; sled; small; smile; snow; soft; sorry; sort; stone; stop; story; strange; stupid; sure; swanny; sweet; talking; telephone; thing; time; tires; toys; train; tree; trouble; true; turn; valentine; voice; wall; water; way; week; wheel; wide; window; wire; wish; wonderful; work; world; year
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- 4357
- author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
- title: American Fairy Tales
- date: None
- words: 32439
- flesch: 86
- 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.
- keywords: bandits; bear; beautiful; beetle; beni; bessie; best; better; big; birds; black; blower; book; bostwick; box; boy; boys; butterfly; case; cave; chest; chief; child; children; city; clown; corner; counselor; course; creature; crowd; day; dog; dollars; donkey; door; drop; dummy; earth; evening; eyes; face; fairy; fashion; father; fear; feathers; feet; filled; floor; following; girl; glass; glinkomok; gold; good; gouie; great; gulls; hair; hand; happy; hard; hats; head; high; hippopotamus; home; house; husband; idea; jane; jim; jolly; joy; keo; king; knook; lady; lasso; laugh; left; legs; life; little; living; long; look; looking; loud; lugui; magic; majesty; man; mandarin; manner; martha; matter; men; middle; milliner; miss; molasses; moment; money; morning; mother; mydas; new; open; people; pieces; pig; place; polar; policeman; poor; popopo; prisoner; promise; pump; purse; queen; read; red; return; rich; right; river; room; rope; run; senator; shop; skin; small; store; strange; street; sure; thing; thought; time; tis; town; tribe; tusks; uncle; victor; village; voice; water; wax; way; wealth; white; wicked; wife; window; wise; wish; wizard; woman; work; world; wrong; year; yellow; young
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- 60625
- author: Garis, Howard Roger
- title: Uncle Wiggily's Story Book
- date: None
- words: 61326
- flesch: 95
- 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.
- keywords: adventure; afraid; animal; baby; bad; bad boy; ball; bed; better; big; billie; bird; birthday; black; blue; boots; bow; boy; boys; broken; brother; bungalow; bunny; bunny gentleman; bunny rabbit; bunny uncle; bushes; cake; camel; candles; cat; chap; children; christmas; circus; course; cow; crutch; day; dear; dog; door; eggs; elephant; eyes; face; fall; far; fast; fire; forest; freckled; friends; fun; fuzzy; gentleman; girl; glad; good; goosey; grandpa; green; happy; hard; hat; head; help; hole; hollow; home; hop; hope; horns; house; housekeeper; ice; illustration; jackie; jane; johnnie; kind; lady; large; left; like; lion; little; little boy; longears; look; looking; lost; matter; miss; morning; mother; mud; mumps; muskrat; near; new; nice; nose; nurse; nurse jane; old; party; paw; peetie; pie; piece; pine; pink; place; play; poor; pull; queer; rabbit; rabbit gentleman; rain; real; red; rheumatism; rich; right; run; sammie; school; set; silk; sister; snow; stone; stop; story; striped; stubby; stump; sudden; susie; tail; talk; tall; tame; tent; thanksgiving; things; thinking; thought; time; tin; toes; tommie; toothache; toy; tree; twinkling; uncle; uncle wiggily; voice; water; way; white; wiggily; wild; window; wolf; wonder; woods; year
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