Welcome to this mornings Homeschool Resource: Project Gutenberg. On here you will find free books for your children to read during school. As I was on the website I even found books from my childhood I would like to share with Charlie.
All Grades, with parental supervision.
Many of you may already be familiar with the Gutenberg Project that is composed of a team of volunteers endeavoring to make as many books as possible available online at no cost. Currently, there are over 60,000 books. Gutenberg makes it easy for you to find just the titles that might interest you.
When you get to the site, select the “Bookshelves” option from the “Search and Browse” dropdown menu in the top menu bar. When a new page opens, scroll down where you can select from categories such as children’s literature, picture books, book series, instructional books, and more!
Click on any category, and a new page opens with a list of the free books available. These books can be read online or downloaded.
On the Children’s Literature bookshelf you will be able to access the writings of L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edith Nesbit, Anna Sewell, and many more popular children’s authors.
Other authors in the bookshelves of Project Gutenberg include Agatha Christie, Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, Dostoyevsky, and many more.
One more thing: Project Gutenberg is always in need of more volunteers willing to proofread one page per day. You or your teen might like to join the team and take advantage of this exciting, fulfilling, skill-building opportunity.
While on the website I found Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney which is a series of books I read as a child. I can’t wait to sir down and read these books with Charlie.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney.
Complete Edition. Top 100 Children’s Books.
The Five Little Peppers book series was created by Margaret Sidney from 1881 to 1916.
The Five Little Peppers covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper who are born into poverty in a rural “little brown house.”
The series begins with the Peppers in their native state and develops with their rescue by a wealthy gentleman who takes an interest in the family. The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house.
They are poor, and Mamsie must work constantly to keep the wolf from the door, but their lives are unexpectedly happy. They make do with whatever they have and the older children help the younger ones.
They bear bad times as best they can and make the most of the good times. When Phronsie is kidnapped by an organ grinder, she is rescued by young Jasper King and his dog Prince, both of whom soon become fast friends with the Peppers.
The family so charms Jasper and his father that one by one they are invited to visit the Kings’ home in the city and soon the entire family is living there. Mr. King makes Mrs. Pepper his housekeeper and does everything in his power to entertain and educate the children.
Though the Kings surround the Pepper children with luxury–in 5 years Phronsie collects 200 dolls–the values of hard work, humility, and togetherness are still firmly enforced by their mother.
This puts them in a curious position in society. Though they live with an upper-class father and son, the older children are aware they’ll someday work for their livings. This makes them willing to befriend anyone, from street girls to grocers’ sons.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
