The original Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Illustrated by Anonymous
American Literature 1900-
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children’s wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara)
Children, Adventure, Fantasy
Subject: Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction; New York (State) -- Fiction
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world ; A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world
Excerpt: There is here presented to the reader a careful translation of Heidi one of the most popular of the great Swiss authoress madam Johanna Spyri As particulars of her career are not easily gathered we may here state that Johanna Heusser was born at Zurich...
Excerpt: It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in the tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. Augrh! said Father Wolf, it is time to hunt again; and he was going to spring dow...
The happy prince.--The nightingale and the rose.--The selfish giant.--The devoted friend.--The remarkable rocket
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; Historical Literature; Title within ornamental border
Contents Mowgli’s Brothers Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack Kaa’s Hunting Road-Song of the Bandar-Log Tiger! Tiger! Mowgli’s Song The White Seal Lukannon Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Darzee’s Chant Toomai of the Elephants Shiv and the Grasshopper Her Majesty’s Servants Parade Song of the Camp Animals...
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Excerpt: There was once an old miller who had three sons and at his death he left all that he had to them in this way he gave his mill to the eldest his donkey to the second and his cat to the youngest.
ONCE upon a time in an old town, in an old street, there stood a very old house. Such a house as you could hardly find nowadays, however you searched, for it belonged to a gone-by time—a time now quite passed away. It stood in a street, but yet it was not like a town house, for though the front opened right on to the pavement, the back windows looked out upon a beautiful, quaintly terraced garden, with old trees growing so thick and close together that in summer it was l...
Completed through panagtitinolong (Ilocano for collective heroism, or bayanihan in Tagalog), this eBook was co-created by students and adults who learned and discussed the ways in which any large task can be completed with the unity of many. Students from Kalihi Uka Elementary's Reading and Art Club read this story out loud and drew pictures of scenes in the book. Some of these children's art works have been incorporated as illustrations for this eBook.
The reader takes a journey with Lam-Ang to learn, honor and work with everyone’s unique gifts to achieve a common goal.
Supplemental catalog subcollection information: American Libraries Collection; American University Library Collection