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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: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1888), a fictional account of travelling around the world.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Children of Colonial Days by Elizabeth S. Tucker

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Children of Colonial Days by Elizabeth S. Tucker (c1894), a collection of illustrated children's stories and poems.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Old Time Days and Ways by Luthera Whitney

For Students 1st - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Old-Time Days and Ways by Luthera Whitney (1883), an illustrated children's book about old time things such as bees, cookery, and homespun suits.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Reynard the Fox, the Crafty Courtier by Samuel Phillips Day

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Reynard the Fox, The Crafty Courtier by Samuel Phillips Day (1887), a children's novel in words of one syllable.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bright Happy Days by Mc Loughlin Bros.

For Students 1st - 3rd
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Bright Happy Days by McLoughlin Bros., (1880?) a book of illustrated children's poems including ones for the seasons and the months of the year.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Golden Days of Childhood by e.c.c.

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Golden Days of Childhood by E.C.C., a collection of children's stories and poems.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day (1865), an illustrated children's novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Nellie Grey, Or, Ups and Downs of Every Day Life by Knight

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Nellie Grey, or, Ups and Downs of Every-day Life by Knight (1865), a children's novel.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Peep of Day by Favell Lee Mortimer

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Peep of Day by Favell Lee Mortimer (1888). It is a book of religious instruction for young children with verses illustrative of the subject.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Nelly's Dark Days by Hesba Stretton

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Nelly's Dark Days by Hesba Stretton [1870], a children's novel about an alcoholic father.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Gertie's Rainy Day by Joseph Swain

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Gertie's Rainy Day by Joseph Swain (c1884), a novel about a little girl's rainy day.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Little Nellie's Days in India by e.e.c

For Students 2nd - 3rd
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Little Nellie's Days in India by E.E.C (c1885), an illustrated novel about Little Nellie's journey to India.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Trust in God or Three Days in the Life of Gellert Robert Carter

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Trust in God, or, Three Days in the Life of Gellert by Robert Carter (1861). This is a description from three days in the life of Gellert taken from his writings.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The World's Birth Day by Professor L. Gaussen

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The World's Birth-day by Professor L. Gaussen (1861). This is a story about the Biblical creation of the world from Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress by Samuel Phillips Day

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress in Words with One Syllable by Samuel Phillips Day [1870]. It is also known as The Pilgrim's Progress.
Website
Brown University

Brown University Library: Lincolniana at Brown

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital archive of newspapers, objects, graphics, letters, and similar resources that document Lincoln's life and legacy. Browse the collection to find newspaper reports of Lincoln's assassination, badges of mourning worn at his funeral,...
Activity
Other

University of Maryland Medical Center: Sleep Disorders

For Students 9th - 10th
Many of us go to bed, sleep, and wake up to a bright new day! However, after reading through the sleep disorders on this website, you will never take another restful night for granted. Authors list some startling statistics pertaining to...
Activity
Indiana University

Lilly Library: Indiana University: The Appeal of James Whitcomb Riley

For Students 9th - 10th
For James Whitcomb Riley's sesquicentennial in 1999, the Lilly Library created this exhibition which provides biographical information as well as background on several of his more popular poems, such as "Little Orphant Annie," and "The...
Activity
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A New Day [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"A New Day" is a one-page, fictional reading passage about children who learned about civil rights marches while visiting their grandfather in Mississippi. They helped people register to vote before President Obama was elected for the...
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Mama's Happy Christmas [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Mama's Happy Christmas" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about children creating a play for their sick mother on Christmas day. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Mama's Happy Christmas [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
"Mama's Happy Christmas" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about children creating a play for their sick mother on Christmas day. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from...
Article
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Sarah Josepha Hale

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Toronto site contains a brief biography about Sarah Josepha Hale and her poem "Mary's Lamb," which children everywhere learn as "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Daisy Days by Agnes M. Clausen

For Students 1st - 3rd
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Daisy Days by Agnes M. Clausen (1890), a collection of children's poetry.