A collection of well-known stories, including 'The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie,' 'The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,' and 'The Story of Sinbad the Sailor.'

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Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor

A collection of favorite holiday tales features O. Henry's timeless classic, 'The Gift of the Magi,' and stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa May Alcott, and Kate Douglas Wiggin. Original.

Product Description: "Illustrated. Noted author Kate Wiggin treats us to a marvelous Christmas tale for Children. Young Carol, confined to a wheelchair loves to watch the playful large, but poor, family down the street. On her birthday, Christmas day, she invites them all to dinner...read more

Product Description: Kate Douglas Wiggin was one of the late 19th century's most popular authors of kids books, and her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is still widely read today.

Product Description: It was very early Christmas morning and in the stillness of the dawn, with the soft snow falling' on the housetops, a little child was born in the Bird household. They had intended to name the haby Lucy, if it wrere a girl; but they had not expected her on Christmas morning, and a real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named - the whole family agreed in that...read more

Product Description: "[...]mankind. Parsifal is medieval, mystic, rapt, devout. Its ideals are those of celibacy and asceticism, the products of an age whose theories and practices as regards sex-relationships can have no echo in modern civilization. What more natural than that Wagner should fling himself, for mental and emotional relief, into a story throbbing with human love and marriage? Neither would some calm domestic drama serve, some story of the nursery or hearth-stone, dealing with the relations of one fond husband and father, one doting mother and child...read more

Kate Douglas Wiggin, nee Smith (1856-1923) was an American children's author and educator. She was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the "Silver Street Free Kindergarten"). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Her best known books are The Story of Pasty (1883), The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887), Polly Oliver's Problem (1893), A Cathedral Courtship (1893), The Village Watchtoer (1896), Marm Lisa (1897) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" The subject of Children's Rights does not provoke much sentimentalism in this country, where, as somebody says, the present problem of the children is the painless extinction of their elders. I interviewed the man who washes my windows, the other morning, with the purpose of getting at the level of his mind in the matter. "Dennis," I said, as he was polishing the glass, "I am writing an article on the 'Rights of Children.' What do you think about it?" Dennis carried his forefinger to his head in search of an idea, for he is not accustomed to having his intelligence so violently assaulted, and after a moment's puzzled thought he said, "What do I think about it, mum? Why, I think we'd ought to give 'em to 'em. But Lor', mum, if we don't, they take 'em, so what's the odds?" And as he left the room I thought he looked pained that I should spin words and squander ink on such a topic.

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Product Description: Two short works of Charles Dickens have been presented here. The genius of the author is evident through both works. With colloquial languages and amazing word-pictures drawn of every scene, this work inspires and relaxes. Truly engrossing!

Product Description: Here are the favorite fairy tales of many countries, told for modern children as they have been told for centuries to boys and girls in every part of the world. There are English, Spanish, French, an German Stories. There are tales from the Norse and Gaelic mythology, from the Russian and the East Indian...read more

Product Description: Kate Douglas Wiggin was one of the late 19th century's most popular authors of kids books, and her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is still widely read today.

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more