Five Children and It, 
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
, and more)- The Book of Dragons
You can get all but one or two of the books in this next series free. This is just a sampling. I find them very useful for history. The TOC is not hyperlinked. You can work around that by reading the TOC and then doing a search for the title of the chapter you want.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05(From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa)
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21The Recent Days (1910-1914)
For the dog lovers:
His Dog
Fabre's books on insects remain some of the most well written, engaging texts you will ever find on the topic. this is just one of several available for free for the Kindle at Amazon:
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
There are several of these from different states, all free for Kindle:
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United StatesFrom Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1
Love Jean Henri Fabre books! Thanks for the link!
ReplyDeleteThe E Nesbit books are also available on Librivox - I use Librivox a lot to prevent my voice wearing out with all the reading aloud I do for the kids :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the book recs! I just finished a dog book that I found for free on Freebooksy (http://www.freebooksy.com) called "A Howl in the Night" and I've been wanting to read another one. Definitely will check out 'His Dog.' Thanks!
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