item: #1 of 26
          id: 14220
      author: Potter, Beatrix
       title: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
        date: None
       words: 1082
      flesch: 85
     summary: While she and Benjamin were talking, close under the wall, they heard a heavy tread above their heads; and suddenly Mr. McGregor emptied out a sackful of lawn mowings right upon the top of the sleeping Flopsy Bunnies! While he was gone, Mrs. Flopsy Bunny (who had remained at home) came across the field.
    keywords: illustration; mcgregor
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        item: #2 of 26
          id: 15575
      author: Potter, Beatrix
       title: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers; Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding
        date: None
       words: 2757
      flesch: 88
     summary: [Illustration] Please sir, the chimney wants sweeping, said poor Tom Kitten. * * * * * [Illustration] Now this is what had been happening to Tom Kitten, and it shows how very unwise it is to go up a chimney in a very old house, where a person does not know his way, and where there are enormous rats.
    keywords: illustration; kitten; tabitha; tom
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        item: #3 of 26
          id: 16540
      author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia
       title: Melchior's Dream and Other Tales
        date: None
       words: 62136
      flesch: 83
     summary: There is, perhaps, no argument so strong, and no virtue that so commands the respect of young men, as consistency. But I think you may venture to assure yourself that when a poor soul has passed the waves of this troublesome world, by whatever means, it doesn't come back kicking about under a white sheet in dark lanes, to frighten little boys from going to school.
    keywords: antoine; arthur; bed; bill; book; boy; brother; children; day; eyes; face; father; friedrich; friend; god; good; hands; head; home; lay; left; life; little; look; man; master; melchior; monsieur; mother; night; people; place; room; round; sisters; things; think; thought; time; viscount; want; way; young
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        item: #4 of 26
          id: 18661
      author: Various
       title: The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
        date: None
       words: 122457
      flesch: 85
     summary: Mr. Haberton, immersed in affairs, had little time to consider his daughter's whims. That's where I'm only half like other little girls.
    keywords: anna; aunt; away; brother; child; children; christmas; claudia; course; day; days; dear; doctor; door; dorothy; edith; eily; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; god; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jack; jane; joan; kind; lady; leave; left; life; little; look; love; man; mary; men; miss; mittie; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; poor; room; round; sidenote; sister; tell; things; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #5 of 26
          id: 18859
      author: MacDonald, George
       title: Cross Purposes and The Shadows
        date: None
       words: 18576
      flesch: 88
     summary: But our work we still must do, Shadow men, as well as you. When we're lurking, Yet we're working, For our labour we must do, Shadow men, as well as you.
    keywords: alice; bed; eyes; fairy; head; king; light; majesty; man; moment; richard; room; shadow; thought; time; water; way
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        item: #6 of 26
          id: 20541
      author: Wilberforce, Samuel
       title: The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes
        date: None
       words: 28710
      flesch: 79
     summary: There were persons coming in of all nations and people, and some, too, of all ages, though the greatest number were little children, so small that their little hands would not hold the man's gifts, and so he hung them round their necks, for them to use as soon as they were able. There were a multitude of other happy children too in the castle, with whom they lived, and learned, and spent their glad days.
    keywords: book; children; darkness; eyes; god; heart; king; light; look; lord; man; path; round; thought; way
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        item: #7 of 26
          id: 23112
      author: Walton, Amy
       title: The Kitchen Cat, and other Tales
        date: None
       words: 11733
      flesch: 89
     summary: Miss Ruth was always so fond of making believe. Well, ma'am, replied Nurse, Miss Ruth's better; but she's not, so to say, as cheerful as I could wish.
    keywords: betty; cat; kitchen; miss; nurse; ruth; sarah; thought; way
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        item: #8 of 26
          id: 23114
      author: Walton, Amy
       title: Our Frank and other stories
        date: None
       words: 29839
      flesch: 83
     summary: It was a mild spring evening, and Mrs Frank Darvell was toiling slowly up Whiteleaf Hill on her way back from market. The room Mrs Frank Darvell entered with a heavy, tired tread was a good-sized kitchen, one end of which was entirely occupied by a huge open fireplace without any grate; on the hearth burned and crackled a bright little wood-fire, the flames of which played merrily round a big black kettle hung on a chain.
    keywords: barney; boy; boys; bridget; darvell; dog; eyes; face; frank; good; head; home; joshua; mother; mrs; penny; roger; room; round; thought; tim; time; work; yer
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        item: #9 of 26
          id: 23452
      author: Dickens, Charles
       title: The Trial of William Tinkling Written by Himself at the Age of 8 Years
        date: None
       words: 3463
      flesch: 82
     summary: [Illustration: Waving his black flag, the Colonel attacked.] Waving his black flag, the Colonel attacked.
    keywords: alice; bride; colonel; court; illustration
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        item: #10 of 26
          id: 23661
      author: Nesbit, E. (Edith)
       title: The Book of Dragons
        date: None
       words: 43367
      flesch: 89
     summary: Boys brought barrowloads of dead dragons, and children on their way home from morning school would call in to leave the handful or two of little dragons they had brought in their satchels, or carried in their knotted pocket handkerchiefs. The children saw other dragons in the air as they went, but the dragon who was as big as the dining room never stopped to speak to any of them, but just flew on quite steadily.
    keywords: book; children; cockatrice; come; course; day; dear; door; dragon; edmund; fire; george; good; jane; king; lionel; little; nurse; page; people; princess; queen; things; thought; time; tom; town; way; wings
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        item: #11 of 26
          id: 23735
      author: Lindsay, Maud
       title: The Story-teller
        date: None
       words: 17079
      flesch: 87
     summary: But as for Hildegarde, she kept the vision in her heart alway; and when as the years went by she had little ones of her own to rock to sleep, she told them of it, and sang to them as her mother had sung to her: Stay with us, they begged; but the harper said: I _must_ go, for it would be discourtesy to disappoint the king; but as sure as holly berries are red and pine is green, I will come back by Christmas day to eat my share of the Christmas pudding, and sing the Christmas songs by my own fireside.
    keywords: blossom; christmas; day; good; hans; home; king; little; mother; pease; time; way; woman
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        item: #12 of 26
          id: 26018
      author: Browne, Frances
       title: Granny's Wonderful Chair
        date: None
       words: 23131
      flesch: 87
     summary: So much news about all sorts of great people came out of these stories, that lords and ladies ran to complain of Spare as one who spoke against people. All their neighbours, being poor, looked up to the family--insomuch that they thought themselves great people.
    keywords: chair; children; civil; country; day; forest; good; king; lady; lords; people; scrub; snowflower; spare; thought; way; woman
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        item: #13 of 26
          id: 26164
      author: None
       title: Child-Land: Picture-Pages for the Little Ones
        date: None
       words: 9665
      flesch: 90
     summary: [Illustration] THE BROKEN CUP. [Illustration] THE KIND BROTHER.
    keywords: baby; children; dolly; illustration; little; mama; morning; school; sister
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        item: #14 of 26
          id: 27903
      author: Nesbit, E. (Edith)
       title: The Magic World
        date: None
       words: 61248
      flesch: 94
     summary: [Illustration: Quentin de Ward.] III ACCIDENTAL MAGIC; OR DON'T TELL ALL YOU KNOW Quentin de Ward was rather a nice little boy, but he had never been with other little boys, and that made him in some ways a little different from other little boys. Now the school in Salisbury was a little school for little boys--boys who were used to schools and took the rough with the smooth.
    keywords: aunt; bell; boy; cat; course; day; dear; edward; elsie; eyes; father; fish; glass; good; gustus; hand; hugh; kenneth; king; look; lord; magic; maurice; mother; people; princess; queen; quentin; right; ring; room; sep; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; yes
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        item: #15 of 26
          id: 30120
      author: Wilde, Oscar
       title: The Happy Prince, and Other Tales
        date: None
       words: 16818
      flesch: 90
     summary: [Illustration: THE GREEN LINNET] Little Hans had a great many friends, but the most devoted friend of all was big Hugh the Miller. Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season.
    keywords: children; day; garden; giant; good; hans; miller; night; prince; red; rocket; rose; swallow; tree
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        item: #16 of 26
          id: 30272
      author: Clifford, W. K., Mrs.
       title: Very Short Stories and Verses For Children
        date: None
       words: 14902
      flesch: 93
     summary: Dear little swallows, tell mother that we are watching for her! What are they all a-doing? Poor little rabbit, all alone, Don't let the master meet you; He'll shoot you with his little gun, And merrily he'll eat you!
    keywords: birds; boy; children; day; dear; doll; girl; mother; poor; round; saw; time
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        item: #17 of 26
          id: 32241
      author: Dickens, Charles
       title: Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
        date: None
       words: 64768
      flesch: 84
     summary: Ah! Said he wanted to, did he, my boy? inquired the gentleman in the white waistcoat. When little Oliver was nine months old they took him away from the workhouse and carried him to the Poor Farm, where there were twenty-five or thirty other poor children who had no parents.
    keywords: boy; boys; child; cobbs; day; dear; door; eyes; face; father; gentleman; good; half; hand; head; home; house; joe; lady; life; little; look; man; master; miss; morning; mother; mrs; murdstone; night; oliver; peggotty; people; pip; place; poor; room; round; sir; thought; time; todgers; way; work
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        item: #18 of 26
          id: 32488
      author: Kipling, Rudyard
       title: Just So Stories
        date: None
       words: 35892
      flesch: 90
     summary: Said the Ethiopian to Baviaan, 'Can you tell me the present habitat of the aboriginal Fauna?' The umbrella-ish thing about his head is his Conventional Mane.] Said Leopard to Baviaan (and it was a very hot day), 'Where has all the game gone?' And Baviaan winked.
    keywords: beloved; bin; cat; cave; child; daddy; daoud; day; dog; elephant; great; illustration; know; magic; magician; man; picture; sea; suleiman; taffy; tegumai; water; woman
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        item: #19 of 26
          id: 35820
      author: Browne, Frances
       title: Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times
        date: None
       words: 38819
      flesch: 79
     summary: Sing on by fane and forest old By tombs and cottage eaves, And tell the waste of coming flowers The woods of coming leaves;-- Their custom increased from day to day, and all that were disappointed, discontented, or unlucky, came to the hut as in old times, before Spare went to court.
    keywords: chair; children; civil; company; country; day; fair; forest; gold; good; king; lady; lord; man; merrymind; night; palace; people; princess; queen; scrub; sea; snowflower; spare; story; thought; time; way; white; woman
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        item: #20 of 26
          id: 36178
      author: Edgeworth, Maria
       title: The Little Dog Trusty; The Orange Man; and the Cherry Orchard; Being the Tenth Part of Early Lessons (1801)
        date: None
       words: 7992
      flesch: 82
     summary: Little boys, I advise you, never be afraid to tell the truth; never say, _Stay a minute_, and, _Stay a little longer_, but run directly, and tell of what you have done that is wrong. Little boys, who wish to be honest, beware of temptation; do not depend too much upon yourselves; and remember, that it is easier to resolve to do right at first, than at last.
    keywords: frank; marianne; mother; owen; robert
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        item: #21 of 26
          id: 37121
      author: Dickens, Charles
       title: Charles Dickens' Children Stories
        date: None
       words: 19349
      flesch: 85
     summary: Mr. Murdstone did not take any notice of poor little David, nor had Miss Murdstone a word of kindness for the orphan. For little Jo was very poor.
    keywords: away; child; david; day; father; good; house; little; man; master; mother; mrs; night; pip; poor; sir
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        item: #22 of 26
          id: 43110
      author: Molesworth, Mrs.
       title: Tell Me a Story
        date: None
       words: 34693
      flesch: 89
     summary: They were, on the whole, a happy, united family; they had their troubles, and disagreements perhaps too, sometimes, but in one thing they all joined, and that was in loving and petting little Janet. For little Janet could not read much to herself.
    keywords: betsy; con; dear; fairies; girl; good; home; hughie; janet; judy; louisa; mamma; mother; nance; night; nurse; things; thought; time; way; winny
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        item: #23 of 26
          id: 50466
      author: McIntosh, Jean
       title: Animal Chums: True Tales about Four-footed Friends
        date: None
       words: 8206
      flesch: 96
     summary: It was drawing very near to Christmas time, and they were thinking of all the nice presents and things that little boys like you would be sure to get on Christmas morning. Said Robbie (for that was the boy's name) to his sister,-- Mamie, do you think Father Christmas will bring _us_ anything this year? Poor little thing, how he does shake! Mother, mother!
    keywords: brer; day; father; illustration; mother; rabbit; time
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        item: #24 of 26
          id: 582
      author: Potter, Beatrix
       title: A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
        date: None
       words: 24546
      flesch: 91
     summary: Peter,--said little Benjamin, in a whisper--who has got your clothes? One day he was living in a stick-house in the coppice, causing terror to the family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer.
    keywords: benjamin; bland; brock; dear; door; duchess; end; flopsy; hole; house; kitchen; mcgregor; mrs; old; peter; pie; pigling; rabbit; ribby; time; tod; tommy; way
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        item: #25 of 26
          id: 697
      author: MacDonald, George
       title: The Light Princess
        date: None
       words: 15289
      flesch: 88
     summary: It was rather cunning in the prince to request such an easy post, for the princess could not possibly soil as many shoes as other princesses. They argued that, if water of external origin and application could be so efficacious, water from a deeper source might work a perfect cure; in short, that if the poor afflicted princess could by any means be made to cry, she might recover her lost gravity.
    keywords: day; king; lake; light; look; majesty; mind; moment; princess; queen; round; time; water; way
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        item: #26 of 26
          id: 7870
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: Tales of Daring and Danger
        date: None
       words: 47359
      flesch: 86
     summary: _ =A Pair of Clogs:= And other Stories. --_Academy._ =Stories Of Old Renown:= Tales of Knights and Heroes.
    keywords: 8vo; board; boat; book; boys; browne; cloth; crown; crown 8vo; dick; edges; fenn; fothergill; g.a; george; good; gordon; half; hands; henty; illustrations; jack; junks; life; man; men; mrs; page; people; percy; place; read; round; sea; seabird; stories; story; tale; time; tom; village; water; watkins; way; work
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