PDF Books in Stories For Kids
Little Miss Dorothy
by Bryce WaltonDorothy May was a dear little girl, whose soft eyes met yours with a twinkle in their brown depths. She was very fond of Cousin Ray, a bright-haired boy all curves and dimples, who lived quite near and often came to play with her. These two little people wondered about the great world around them; about the trees and flowers, the birds and the blue..
The Starlight Wonder Book
by Henry BestonThe Starlight Wonder Book is a collection of short stories for children written by Henry Beston. THE BRAVE GRENADIERTHE PALACE OF THE NIGHTTHE ENCHANTED BABYTHE TWO MILLERSTHE ADAMANT DOORTHE CITY OF THE WINTER SLEEPAILEEL AND AILINDATHE WONDERFUL TUNETHE MAN OF THE WILDWOODTHE MAIDEN OF THE MOUNTAINTHE BELL OF THE EARTH AND THE BELL OF T..
Blessed Event
by Henry FarrellGinny nodded and moved toward the entrance to the hall. "I'd better see if he's all right," she said. "You really shouldn't have yelled at him." Lester watched broodingly as she left the room. For a moment his gaze remained darkly fixed, then moved back and down to the toes of his shoes. He sighed again, and the lines of worry, as though of sh..
No-Time-Land - A Story for Girls and Boys
by M. J. C. FultonHe was just dropping off to sleep, when his eyes seemed to wander to the open window, where the moonbeams were dancing in, as if they had come to see what sort of a room it was, and what the inmate was like. They are inquisitive little things, you know; both moonbeams and sunbeams. They like to get into all the odd dark corners, and if people are d..
The Art of Story-Telling
by Julia Darrow CowlesIn preparing this book the author has sought to awaken a keener perception and a higher appreciation of the artistic and ethical value of story-telling; to simplify some of its problems; to emphasize the true delight which the story-teller may share with her hearers; and to present fresh material which answers to the test of being good in substance..
Daffydowndilly and the Golden Touch
by Alpha Banta BensonThere was once a king who was very rich. His name was Midas. King Midas loved gold better than anything else in the world. There was nothing he loved half so well except his little daughter, Marygold. He thought, foolish man, that the way to show this love, was to get for her as much gold as he could.Down deep under his castle, was a small, dark ro..
Wonder Tales from Tibet
by Eleanore Myers JewettThe Siddhi-kur is a strange and mysterious creature! He is so old that we cannot even guess at his age, and he has traveled so many leagues from the land that originally produced him that we really do not know how much of him is as he was, and how much of him has been changed by time and place. Dusky little boys and girls in faraway India, long, lo..
Corporal Jacques of the Foreign Legion
by H. De Vere StacpooleThe first rays of the morning sun were stealing up the palm-bordered roads towards Sidi-bel-Abbès, above whose ramparts the minaret of the great mosque blazed white in the sky. Eighty miles from Oran on the coast, and the headquarters of the Foreign Legion, Sidi-bel-Abbès is surely one of the strangest cities on earth.It was built by the Foreign Le..