17 must-read school books like Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics) by William Joseph Long

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Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics)

By: William Joseph Long

4.08

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Vivid sketches of the wood-mouse, otter, kingfisher, red squirrel, partridge, deer, and other wood …

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1. The Story Book of Science

By: Jean-Henri Fabre

4.17

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

The wonders of plant and animal life told with rare literary charm by Uncle Paul in conversations w… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
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2. The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

By: Charles Kingsley

3.74

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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3. Tree in the Trail

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The history of the Great Plains and the Santa Fe Trail is told in text and pictures by focusing on … read more

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  • nature
  • classics
  • school
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4. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

By: Howard Pyle

4.07

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Dünya tarihinin en ünlü halk kahramanlarından biri olan Robin Hood, zorlu bir dönemde ortaya çıkmış… read more

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  • classics
"Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

"So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

"I had to pay a ransom of six hundred pounds in gold. All might have gone well even yet, only that, by ins and outs and crookedness of laws, I was shorn like a sheep that is clipped to the quick."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

"Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I."

-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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5. Viking Tales

By: Jennie Hall , Victor R. Lambdin

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Nights were long in Iceland winters of long ago. A whole family sat for hours around the fire in th… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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6. Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The B… read more

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  • classics
  • animals
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7. Seabird: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.02

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A 1949 Newbery Honor Book The history of America at sea is presented through the travels of Seabir… read more

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  • nature
  • school
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8. A Drop Of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder

By: Walter Wick

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The most spectacular photographs ever created on the subject of water appear in this unique science… read more

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  • school
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Aesop for Children by Aesop, Milo Winter, H.Y. Xiao

9. The Aesop for Children

By: Aesop , Milo Winter , H.Y. Xiao

3.32

Format: None pages,

Here are 126 of the best loved classic fables, including such favorites as 'The Town Mouse And The … read more

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  • classics
  • school
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10. Paddle-to-the-Sea

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.28

Format: 64 pages, Library Binding

A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and na… read more

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  • nature
  • classics
  • school

11. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare

By: Diane Stanley , Peter Vennema

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. … read more

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12. The Landing of the Pilgrims

By: James Daugherty

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

In England in the early 1600s, everyone was forced to join the Church of England. Young William Bra… read more

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13. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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  • classics
"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

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14. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

15. American Tall Tales

By: Adrien Stoutenburg

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Eight exciting classic American Tall Tales! This collection includes the famed stories of Paul Buny… read more

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16. Pagoo

By: Holling Clancy Holling , None

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An intricate study of tide pool life is presented in text and pictures through the story of Pagoo, … read more

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17. The Children of the New Forest

By: Frederick Marryat

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is … read more

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  • classics

18. The Burgess Bird Book for Children

By: Thornton W. Burgess , None

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

Parents, teachers, and young readers all over the world have enthusiastically welcomed the Dover re… read more

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19. The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.90

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more

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  • classics
  • animals
"Mark my trail..."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Each dog barks in its own yard."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

Cover of The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess, None

20. The Burgess Animal Book for Children

By: Thornton W. Burgess , None

4.27

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • animals
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
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21. The Little Duke

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

4.13

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • school
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22. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

4.72

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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24. Marco Polo: his travels and adventures.

By: George Makepeace Towle

4.21

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

This edition is presented complete and unabridged, with larger text for easier reading by younger r… read more

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25. Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics)

By: William Joseph Long

4.08

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Vivid sketches of the wood-mouse, otter, kingfisher, red squirrel, partridge, deer, and other wood … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
Cover of This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated by H.E. Marshall

26. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Volume 1: H. E. Marshall's "This Country of Ours" - Annotated, Expanded, and Updated

By: H.E. Marshall

4.67

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

For many years, boys and girls have read “This Country of Ours” and its stories of the Americans. N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
Cover of Parables from Nature (Yesterday's Classics) by Mrs. Alfred Gatty

27. Parables from Nature (Yesterday's Classics)

By: Mrs. Alfred Gatty

4.03

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Parables for children inspired by nature. This collection includes all 29 stories from the first, s… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
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28. Poor Richard

By: James Daugherty

3.85

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

A biography of Benjamin Franklin from his birth in Boston in 1706 through his years as printer,stat… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • school
Cover of Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures by George M. Towle

29. Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures

By: George M. Towle

3.91

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1271, at the age of seventeen, Marco Polo, his father, and his uncle, set off from Venice for As… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
Cover of Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years by Ellen Vaughn

30. Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

By: Ellen Vaughn

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a remote Amazonian indigenous pe… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. A Walk Through the Glen

By: Anne E. White

4.18

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

What was the unique value of Madam How and Lady Why that made it a staple of Charlotte Mason’s clas… read more

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  • school

17 Best classics books like Secrets of the Woods (Yesterday's Classics) by William Joseph Long

Transform Your Habits

The Story Book of Science

Jean-Henri Fabre

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

Charles Kingsley

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Tree in the Trail

Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

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18 Best classics books like The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess

Transform Your Habits

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

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Tree in the Trail

Holling Clancy Holling

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

4.07

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Helen Sewell , Alice Dalgliesh

3.81

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