Dla dzieci
Adam Bahdaj
Podobno jeszcze trochę z Maćka dzieciak (piętnastoletni?), ale rozmawia się z nim jak z dorosłym. Podobno też patrzy spode łba, ale szczerze. No i mizerne sprawia wrażenie. Nic dziwnego od dwóch tygodni jest w drodze. Nie na gigancie, bo nie ma skąd uciekać. Zwykle wieje się z domu, a Maciek mieszka w internacie. A w drodze jest od czasu, kiedy zobaczył program w telewizji o przodownikach pracy. I robili wywiad z jego ojcem! Maciek go szuka. Już tylu ciekawych ludzi spotkał po drodze! Tylko ojca jeszcze nie. Druga część, Gdzie twój dom, Telemachu? została wpisana na Listę Honorową IBBY.
Irena Jurgielewiczowa
Ulka, Pestka, Marian i Julek są zaskoczeni pojawieniem się na ich wyspie obcego, potrzebującego pomocy chłopaka. Ukrywają go przed dorosłymi, ale nie wiedzą, że Zenek ma za sobą bolesne przeżycia i nie jest tym, za kogo się podaje. Wkrótce sytuacja tak bardzo się skomplikuje, że trzeba będzie ujawnić prawdę... Ponadczasowa powieść dla młodzieży teraz w wersji do słuchania!
Stanisław Jachowicz
Stanisław Jachowicz Bajki i powiastki Teodorek Teodorek łapał muszki, Obrywał im skrzydła, nóżki. Siostra na to patrząc z boku, Mówiła mu z łezką w oku: O niedobry Teodorze! Jak cię też to bawić może? Cóż ci winny biedne muszki? Czyż ty im dał skrzydła, nóżki? ----- Ta lektura, podobnie jak tysią... Stanisław Jachowicz Ur. 17 kwietnia 1796 w Dzikowie (dziś dzielnica Tarnobrzega) Zm. 24 grudnia 1857 w Warszawie Najważniejsze dzieła: Rozmowy mamy z Józią służące za wstęp do wszelkich nauk, a mianowicie do gramatyki, ułożone dla pożytku młodzieży, Pisma różne wierszem Stanisława Jachowicza, Śpiewy dla dzieci, Rady wuja dla siostrzenic: (upominek dla młodych panien), Pomysły do poznania zasad języka polskiego, Ćwiczenia pobożne dla dzieci, rozwijające myśl, Podarek dziatkom polskim: z pozostałych pism ś. p. Stanisława Jachowicza, Upominek z prac Stanisława Jachowicza: bajki, nauczki, opisy, powiastki i różne wierszyki Poeta, bajkopisarz, pedagog, działacz charytatywny. Ukończył szkołę pijarów w Rzeszowie oraz gimnazjum w Stanisławowie. Studiował na wydziale filozoficznym na Uniwersytecie we Lwowie. Na studiach był współzałożycielem i wpływowym członkiem tajnego Towarzystwa Ćwiczącej się Młodzieży w Literaturze Ojczystej, a także inspiratorem i prezesem Towarzystwa Studenckiego Koła Literacko-Naukowego. Po studiach zamieszkał w Warszawie, gdzie objął posadę kancelisty w Prokuratorii Generalnej Królestwa Polskiego. Przystąpił do Związku Wolnych Polaków, po wykryciu którego otrzymał zakaz zajmowania posad rządowych. Wobec tego jego głównym zajęciem była praca pedagogiczna jako nauczyciela języka polskiego w domach i na prywatnych stancjach dla dziewcząt. Debiut literacki Jachowicza miał miejsce w 1818 r. w Pamiętniku lwowskim, gdzie opublikował bajki. Pierwszą książkę wydał w 1824 r. - zbiór bajek i powiastek pt. Bajki i powieści. Przez cztery kolejne lata ukazywały się rozszerzone wydania tego zbioru pod tym samym tytułem; w 1829 r. zbiór zawierał już 113 utworów. Jest autorem kilkuset wierszyków i powiastek dydaktyczno-moralizatorskich. Publikował również w periodykach pod własnym nazwiskiem lub pod pseudonimem Stanisław z Dzikowa. W 1829 r. redagował przez rok Tygodnik dla Dzieci. W W 1830 r. przy współudziale Ignacego Chrzanowskiego zaczął wydawać pierwsze w Europie codzienne pismo dla dzieci - Dziennik dla Dzieci. Publikowane przez niego gazety i książki miały wychowywać, ale też uczyć czytania, liczenia i historii. Zajmował się również opieką społeczną nad dziećmi. Kupując książkę wspierasz fundację Nowoczesna Polska, która propaguje ideę wolnej kultury. Wolne Lektury to biblioteka internetowa, rozwijana pod patronatem Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W jej zbiorach znajduje się kilka tysięcy utworów, w tym wiele lektur szkolnych zalecanych do użytku przez MEN, które trafiły już do domeny publicznej. Wszystkie dzieła są odpowiednio opracowane - opatrzone przypisami oraz motywami.
The Admirable Tinker. Child of the World
Edgar Jepson
Edgar Jepson was a prolific English writer whose career spanned from the eighteen-nineties to the nineteen-thirties. He achieved fame principally for his entertaining mainstream detective and adventure stories, although he also wrote two fantasies, The Horned Shepherd and The Garden at 19. If you enjoy the works of Edgar Jepson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. The title character of The Admirable Tinker is repeatedly described as an angel child and has a knack for attracting improbably large sums of money. Tinker plays tricks on people, and most of the time they serve some kind of practical purpose, but the favorite thing about him is how perfectly at home he is in all situations.
The Adventures of a Suburbanite
Ellis Parker Butler
A city man moves to the suburbs with humorous results gardening, automobiling, and golfing become new avocations. The book The Adventures of a Suburbanite includes two chapters on golf: The Royal Game and Advanced Golf. The subjects of humor in this book are mostly the two neighbors opposing opinions about all aspects of domestic and rural life, the gardening, and a variety of slapstick troubles with an automobile. Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia... much the same today as it was in 1911. Find out!
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The elderly Mrs. Barry had one son, Mark, whom she passionately hoped to marry Lois Wilbur, his childhood friend. Nevertheless, Mark went to the city of Queens, where he fell in love and became engaged to actress Beatrice, much to Mrs. Barrys dismay. Great story, easy and laid back.
The Boy Fortune Hunters in China
L. Frank Baum
The fourth in a series, The Boy Fortune Hunters in China appeared in 1909, published by Reilly & Britton under Baums pseudonym, Floyd Akers. Unlike most of L. Frank Baums work, the series is told in first person narrative by the protagonist, 16 year-old Sam Steele. Sams father is a sea captain who was reported killed in a shipwreck. After being cheated of his inheritance, he finds his uncle and they set sail in the Pacific. Here, Sam Steele and his two pals, Joe and Archie, have fished a wounded Chinese Prince out of the ocean. Prince Kai Lun Po rewards the boys with detailed directions on how to plunder his family tomb of its treasure and he gives them his blessing to do so. All the boys have to do is get to China, hoodwink the palace staff, and get past Fo-Chu, the Sacred Ape that guards the treasure! Come adventuring with young Sam on one of his most exciting and dangerous adventures in China!
The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt
L. Frank Baum
Writing under a pseudonym, the prolific Wizard of Oz author created a series of far-flung adventure tales starring Sam Steele, a resourceful young sailor. In this story of mystery, deceit, and murder, Sam and his companions seek the legendary wealth of Karnak a 2,000-year-old treasure buried in the desert sands. The adventure begins when Sam rescues an escaped cabin boy from a sinking dinghy in Boston Harbor. Runaway Joe Herring, along with pampered aristocrat Archie Ackley, accompany Sam to Alexandria, Egypt. There, the trio learn of the legendary lost riches of Karnak and Luxor a wealth of pearls, gold, precious gems, and historic papyrus rolls, all hidden from invading Persians. Relying upon their pluck, luck, and quick wits, the American boys follow an ancient caravan route to uncover a secret from beyond the grave. Unusually for Baum, the tale of The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt is told in the first person, by the title character.
The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas
L. Frank Baum
If you like the books by Iain Lawrence The Wreckers, The Smugglers, and The Buccaneers youll love the adventures of Sam Steele. The Boy Fortune Hunters series began in 1906 with the novel Sam Steeles Adventures on Land and Sea (later re-published as The Boy Fortune Hunters in Alaska). The series lasted six novels, ending in 1911 with the novel The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas. Here, Sam Steele and crew are shipwrecked on a forbidding and mysterious island where the natives worship a powerful Pearl God in a temple overflowing with the most luxurious pearls in the world. Sam is delighted at the prospect of such enormous riches but the boy-king of the island is forced to sentence Sam to a watery grave. Airplane rescues, uncharted islands, revolutionaries, a lost king, and riches beyond imagination await you as you travel with the Boy Fortune Hunters to fabulous adventure in the South Seas!
Ellis Parker Butler
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author in the first half of the 20th century. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story Pigs is Pigs. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. More of this popular authors fun, a bundle of absurd complications and ridiculous situations arising from a young married couples scheme to provide funds for their year-old sons education. They decide to finance their babys college education by collecting a toll on any goods brought into their home by friends or family members. The Cheerful Smugglers is a veritable Stocktonian story, as delightfully absurd in theme as it is realistic in characterization.
Charles Dickens
The Chimes - a novella by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. On New Year's Eve, Trotty, a poor elderly "ticket-porter" or casual messenger, is filled with gloom at the reports of crime and immorality in the newspapers, and wonders whether the working classes are simply wicked by nature. His daughter Meg and her long-time fiancé Richard arrive and announce their decision to marry next day.
The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series. MultiBook
Lucy Maud Montgomery
One of the most famous novels of the Canadian writer Lucy Mod Montgomery. A single brother and sister living on a farm decide to adopt a boy from a shelter in Nova Scotia so that he becomes an au pair. But due to a misunderstanding, on the island of Prince Edward, eleven-year-old Anne, a tireless inventor and a cheerful seeker of adventures, who will forever change their lives, falls. The multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Annes House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, Further Chronicles of Avonlea.
Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth - a novella by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
L. Frank Baum
Join Dorothy and the Wonderful Wizard as they take Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a fabulous tour of Oz. During their journey they encounter such amazing and amusing people as King Kleaver with his Spoon Brigade and Miss Cuttenclip of the land of paper dolls. Aunt Em and Uncle Henry also meet old friends like the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead and H. M. Wogglebug T. E. But while Dorothy and her friends play, the wicked Nome King has joined forces with the terrible Whimsies, the fearsome Growleywogs, and the evil Phanfasms in a plot to capture the Emerald City. Will Dorothys friends discover the danger before its too late? Can they rescue the Land of Oz from destruction? L. Frank Baum had intended to cease writing Oz stories with this book, but financial pressures prompted him to write and publish between 1913-1920 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with seven other Oz books to follow.
L. Frank Baum
The Island of Yew is set at some undisclosed place in the Earths global ocean in the middle of the sea. A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on fast and furious adventures. Transformed, he is Prince Marvel, but he keeps his fairy powers, as they might prove handy in a world where you will quite likely encounter giants, dwarves, wizards, rowdy robber gangs, talking dragons, damsels in distress, and overgrown hedges. He takes as a sidekick a dedicated masochist, which is just one of the ways the author keeps things interesting. Full of magic, and fairies and evil hearted villains, this a good read for young adults with a love of gentle adventure stories. The Enchanted Island of Yew is a 1903 childrens book, a fantasy written by L. Frank Baum. It is not an Oz book, though materials in it show a clear relationship and resemblance with Baums most famous fantasy country.
Michel de Montaigne
Montaignes The Essays is an unusual book, largely due to the authors attitude to it. This is an exclusively everyday book, suitable for everyday use, in which the author does not discuss how the world works and where everything goes, but discusses the essential: how to raise children, how to build a married life, how to spend leisure time, etc. At the same time, Montaigne does not have a very high opinion of himself, although he praises him for his non-commitment to excesses and the measuredness of being.