Long, long ago, when the Indians owned the land, there lived in Virginia, near the river afterwards called the James, a little girl, the Princess Pocahontas, daughter of the great chief Powhatan.Pocahontas was her father's favorite child, and the pet of the whole tribe; even the fierce warriors loved her sunny ways.She was a child of nature, and the birds trusted her and came at her call. She knew their songs, and where they built their nests. So she roamed the woods, and lea...

THE WARNING!In the early days of the world lived the patriarch Noah, a good and venerable man whose years already numbered six hundred.Now Noah was warned that a great flood was to come, which would pour down from the clouds and drown the whole earth. He straightway told his neighbors what was to happen, but they refused to believe, and scoffed at him, and said: "Let it rain."BUILDING THE ARK:Then Noah went his way, and set to work to build him a great ship, to...

THE WARNING! In the early days of the world lived the patriarch Noah, a good and venerable man whose years already numbered six hundred. Now Noah was warned that a great flood was to come, which would pour down from the clouds and drown the whole earth. He straightway told his neighbors what was to happen, but they refused to believe, and scoffed at him, and said: "Let it rain." BUILDING THE ARK: Then Noah went his way, and set to work to build him a great ship, to be ready for the day of ...

The Seashore Book

THE WARNING! In the early days of the world lived the patriarch Noah, a good and venerable man whose years already numbered six hundred. Now Noah was warned that a great flood was to come, which would pour down from the clouds and drown the whole earth. He straightway told his neighbors what was to happen, but they refused to believe, and scoffed at him, and said: "Let it rain." BUILDING THE ARK: Then Noah went his way, and set to work to build him a great ship, to be ready for the day of ...

The Seashore Book: Bob and Betty's Summer with Captain Hawes written by E. Boyd Smith, Published September 1912. This book has 12 stories. Example:THE FIRST ROWNow I will tell you how Bob and Betty spent the summer at the seashore with Captain Ben Hawes. Captain Hawes was an old sailor. After forty years' service on the high seas he had settled down ashore at Quohaug.Bluff and hearty, and with no end of sea yarns and stories of strange adventures, and of foreign ports ...

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

The oldest stories from around the world tell about the "beginnings of things." This collection of thrilling tales of the Far North is no different. Narratives from the Land of the Midnight Sun describe winters as terrible times of cold and gloom, in a region where jagged mountain peaks tower over deep valleys that are home to giants and other spirits.Specially written for young readers, these rousing Norse myths bring to life a land populated by brave warriors, cruel giants, mischi...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a record of the life of one of the most impressive individuals in the American history. Franklin's autobiography, although unfinished, represents one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. His book is the record of an unusual life told in his own unexcelled conversational style. The Autobiography is Franklin's longest work, and yet it is only a fragment of it. The account of Franklin's life is divided in a manner ...

We live in a world of fear, for our own individual well-being as well as the well-being of those we love. We live in great anxiety in the midst of countless threatening crises.We are not managing well our affairs as individual human beings or as compatriots and colleagues of the rest of the human race. We seem intent on destroying our world and our lives, or at least of not doing our part to enrich our environment and our existence in that environment. We have become victims of our...

"The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith" is a novel about Pocahontas, a Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia.In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smi...