Category Archives: Reference

Audiobook: Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for

Audiobook: Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

Written in 1910, this “cyclopedia” is full of information that was quite useful at the

Audiobook: Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20

Audiobook: Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe

Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits

Audiobook: Grammar-Land

In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the

Audiobook: Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands

_128kb.mp3″> The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a

Audiobook: My Very First Little German Book

An adorable picture book with 29 little lessons in German. Learn many simple phrases, such

Audiobook: Makers of Many Things

How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the

Audiobook: Little Candy Book for a Little Girl

Join Betsey Bobbitt, a girl with an undeniable sweet tooth, as she discovers new recipes

Audiobook: Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: North America

The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of

Audiobook: Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: South America

In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour

Audiobook: Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Europe

The book tries to give its young readers a living knowledge of Europe. The author

Audiobook: Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

The first volume in Frazer’s seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of

Audiobook: Around the World with the Children

An introduction to world geography for young and old alike. Topics such as China, Japan,

Audiobook: On The Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls

Lina and Adelia Beard, co-founders of the first American girls’ scouting group, originally called the

Audiobook: Stories That Words Tell Us

A history of English words, written for younger readers. Parental advisory: the text was published

Audiobook: Oration by Frederick Douglass Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument, April 14, 1876

This is the speech given by Fredrick Douglass at the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument

Audiobook: London Labour and the London Poor Volume III

Subtitled, “A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that

Audiobook: Guide to Mythology

My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them

Audiobook: Bird World: A Bird Book for Children

Bird World is a children’s guide to New England Birds. It explores the characteristics, habitat,

Audiobook: Really So Stories

These stories for young people are Really So; they are not made up stories about