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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bessie, the Blackberry Gatherer Society for Christian Knowledge

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bessie, the Blackberry Gatherer, or, What Trying May Do from The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [1870]. This is a children's Christian novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Aaron in the Wildwoods

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Aaron in the Wildwoods by Joel Chandler Harris, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A Cracker Bon Bon for Christmas Parties by Robert B. Brough

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Baldwin Library: A Cracker Bon-Bon for Christmas Parties by Robert B. Brough (1861). This is a collection of short witty plays, poetry, and character sketches.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Cedwalla, Or, the Saxons in the Isle of Wight by Frank Cowper

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Caedwalla, or, The Saxons in the Isle of Wight by Frank Cowper (1888). It is an illustrated adventure story.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Jean Fritz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover more about the children's author Jean Fritz, whose work often combines literature and history.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
Website
Virginia Tech

Literature in an Interdisciplinary Unit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A good resource for teachers, this website describes an interdisciplinary unit through which Linda Crew's novel, "Children of the River," is used as part of project on the study of rivers.
Lesson Plan
Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Ww Ii as Seen Through Children's Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This interdisciplinary unit plan relies on children's literature about World War II. Bibliographies for both students and teachers are included as well as a rationale for the unit. Includes links to resources.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Lectures to Children: Illustrating Important Truth by John Todd

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Lectures to Children: Familiarly Illustrating Important Truth by John Todd (1866), a book of sermons for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Lectures to Children: Second Series by John Todd

For Students 3rd - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Lectures to Children: Familiarly Illustrating Important Truth: Second Series by John Todd (1866), a book of sermons for children.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Language Arts Professional Books

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Resources for teachers in children's literature can be found in this bibliography--whole language philosophy, reading/writing techniques, spelling, and assessment.
Activity
Other

Presenting Sid Fleischman

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is children author Sid Fleischman's personal website, which offers a fascinating look into his life and work.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

For Students 4th - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1890) an illustrated children's novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Steele's Sciences: New Descriptive Astronomy by Joel D. Steele

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Steele's Sciences: New Descriptive Astronomy by Joel D. Steele (c1884), an astronomy text for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (1890), a children's frontier novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

For Students 4th - 6th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1890) an illustrated children's novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Gulliver's Travels in the Kingdom of Lilliput by Jonathan Swift

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Gulliver's Travels in the Kingdom of Lilliput by Jonathan Swift, a children's novel about a voyage to Lilliput where the people were tiny.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Life and Adventure of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

For Students 5th - 7th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner by Daniel Defoe (1864), including Parts I and II of the novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Every Day Gems: A Collection of New Music by R. B. Mahaffey

For Students 1st - 9th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Every Day Gems: A Collection of New Music by R. B. Mahaffey (c1885), a collection of music for public schools.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Rip Van Winkle by George P. Webster

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Rip Van Winkle by George P. Webster (1887), a poetry version of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Robinson Crusoe, His Life and Adventures by Daniel Defoe

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Robinson Crusoe, His Life and Adventures by Daniel Defoe (1887), illustrated by Ernest Henry Griset with numerous original wood engravings and twelve full-page...

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