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  • NORTHLAND HEROES - The Sagas of Frithiof and Beowulf in an easy to read format

    Easy to read sagas of heroism for young people

    by Anon E. Mouse, Retold by Florence Holbrook ...
    This illustrated volume contains two Viking, or Norse, sagas rewritten especially for older children and young adults presented in an easy-to-read novella format. Herein are the stories of Frithiof and the epic Beowulf. These stories are from a time when men were knighted for achieving great feats, and great their feats were. A time when the successful application of brain and brawn gained a man a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Nature Myths

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    In preparing of Nature Myths The desire has been to make a second reader which would be adapted to The child's interest, ability, and progress. The subject-matter is of permanent value, culled from The folk-lore of The primitive races; The vocabulary, based upon that of The Hiawatha Primer, is increased gradually, and The new words and phrases will add to The child's power of expression. The naïve ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Nature Myths

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    In "The Book of Nature Myths," Florence Holbrook brings together a diverse range of myths and legends from different cultures, including Native American, African, and European traditions. These stories explore the origins of natural elements such as the sun, moon, stars, rivers, mountains, animals, and plants.Through imaginative storytelling, Holbrook delves into the cultural beliefs and ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Northland Heroes

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    "Northland Heroes" by Florence Holbrook is a captivating exploration of the lives and adventures of remarkable individuals from the northern regions. Holbrook's narrative brings to life the stories of heroes who have shaped their communities through courage, resilience, and determination. The book delves into the rich cultural heritage of the North, highlighting the unique challenges faced by its ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Northland Heroes

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    For centuries The songs of Homer, The blind poet of Greece, recounting The heroic deeds of great Hector and lion-hearted Achilles, have delighted The children, young and old, of many lands. But part of our own heritage, and nearer to us in race and time, are These stories of Beowulf and Frithiof. The records of lives nobly lived are an inspiration to noble living. With The hope that The courage, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    The Book of Nature Myths by Florence Holbrook is one of the great book for those who love folk-lore of the primitive races. The Book of Nature Myths will gratify the childs desire for complete stories, and their intrinsic merit makes them valuable for oral reproduction. The stories have been adapted to youthful minds from myths contained in the works of many students of folk-lore whose scholarship ... Read more

    $1.98 CAD

  • The Book of Nature Myths

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    "The Book of Nature Myths" is a children's book featuring a collection of mythical tales with the common theme of nature at their heart. The author states that, "The subject-matter is of permanent value, culled from the folk-lore of the primitive races; the vocabulary, based upon that of the Hiawatha Primer, is increased gradually, and the new words and phrases will add to the child's power of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why the Crocodile Has a Wide Mouth

    and Other Nature Myths

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    Series series Dover Children's Classics
    These fifty-four wonder-filled stories, adapted for curious young minds, describe in simple folktale style how many amazing creatures of the earth were created — and why they look and act as they do — and other natural phenomena.Learn why the rabbit is timid and the bear has a short tail. Find out how fire was brought to the Indians, and how summer came to the earth. Discover why the sea is salty ... Read more

    $7.39 CAD

  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection

    150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

    by George Ade, Louisa May Alcott, Raymond Macdonald Alden, Cecil Frances, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, Alfred Austin, Mary Austin, Ralph Henry Barbour, L. Frank Baum, William Cox Bennett, William Blake, Edmund Bolton, Anne Brontë, Elbridge Brooks, Heywood Broun, Frances Browne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oliver Bell Bunce, Robert Burns, Ellis Parker Butler, William Wilfred Campbell, William Canton, Willa Cather, Thomas Chatterton, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eliza Cook, Susan Coolidge, François Coppée, Richard Crashaw, F. Marion Crawford, Mary Stewart Cutting (Cutting, Mary Stewart) [A01, Aubrey De Vere, Margaret Deland, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Mary Mapes Dodge, Alfred Domett, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Drummond, Henry Van Dyke, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Anne P. L. Field, Eugene Field, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Watson Gilder, Washington Gladden, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Elizabeth Harrison, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reginald Heber, Felicia Hemans, George Herbert, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, Robert Herrick, T. A. Hoffmann, Florence Holbrook, Thomas Hood, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, James Weber Linn, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, James Russell Lowell, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, Robert Fuller Murray, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Darby Robinson, Edward Payson Roe, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

    $0.66 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Works of Florence Holbrook

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    The Complete Works of Florence HolbrookThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Northland Heroes2 - The Book of Nature Myths3 - Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades4 - 'Round the Year in Myth and Song ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Northland Heroes

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    For centuries the songs of Homer, the blind poet of Greece, recounting the heroic deeds of great Hector and lion-hearted Achilles, have delighted the children, young and old, of many lands. But part of our own heritage, and nearer to us in race and time, are these stories of Beowulf and Frithiof. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Nature Myths

    by Florence Holbrook ...
    A selection of tales from around the world. From the Preface: 'IN preparing the Book of Nature Myths the desire has been to make a second reader which would be adapted to the child's interest, ability, and progress. The subject-matter is of permanent value, culled from the folk-lore of the primitive races; the vocabulary, based upon that of the Hiawatha Primer, is increased gradually, and the new ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus