I am teaching about Black History to kids at a Museum, and although I am an author and an artist, I am white. My understanding of Kente cloth is limited, and yet, I plan to teach about it. I want the kids to design their own Kente patterns. Yet, I have had difficulty finding adequate…
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Spring – The Awakening by W. Hamilon Gibson
PASTORAL DAYS OR MEMORIES OF A NEW ENGLAND YEAR W. Hamilton Gibson illustrated NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1881 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS, WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON AS far as the eye can reach, the snow…
New Year by Laura Richards – 1881
NEW YEAR https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/43336/pg43336-images.html#NEW_YEAR THE little sweet Child tied on her hood, and put on her warm cloak and mittens. “I am going to the wood,” she said, “to tell the creatures all about it. They cannot understand about Christmas, mamma says, and of course she knows, but I do think they ought to know about New…
A Christmas Adventure – Looking for a Christmas Tree
A CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE By J. E. Chamberlin Having lived all his fourteen years in New York City, making occasional visits to his grandfather’s house in Connecticut, Horace Mason had often sighed for an adventure, and lamented because life in the eastern part of the country is so tame and uninteresting. It had certainly never occurred…
Cressy’s New Year’s Rent
CRESSY’S NEW-YEAR’S RENT By Albert Lee in Junior Classics Volume 9 Gutenberg https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/57522/pg57522-images.html#CRESSYS_NEW-YEARS_RENT Fred Hallowell was sitting at his desk in the Gazette office, looking listlessly out into the City Hall Park, where the biting wind was making the snowflakes dance madly around the leafless trees and in the empty fountain, and he was almost wishing that…
Christmas with the Tudors – 12 Days of Christmas
Christmas with the Tudors by Suzannah Lipscomb History Today, pgs. 106 -107 https://web-s-ebscohost-com.northark.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=ec58c6d0-590e-4bc2-97d4-6f64b8ccc1be%40redis In Tudor England, the festive season was a tale of contrasts. It began with a period of spiritual preparation for the coming of Christ. Its name, Advent, came from the Latin, advenīre, to come towards. It was a season of fasting, which…
Story of the Bible Animals – Wood –
Story OF THE Bible Animals A Description of the Habits and Uses of every living Creature mentioned in the Scriptures, WITH Explanation of Passages in the Old and New Testament in which reference is made to them. ———— BY J. G. WOOD, AUTHOR OF “HOMES WITHOUT HANDS,” “THE ILLUSTRATED NATURAL HISTORY,” ETC. 300 ILLUSTRATIONS….
Read the Bible in 365 Days – Schedule
365-day Cover-to-Cover Bible Reading Plan
Read the Bible Cover to Cover in 90 Days Schedule
1 Genesis 1:1 – Genesis 16:16 2 Genesis 17:1 – Genesis 28:19 3 Genesis 28:20 – Genesis 40:11 4 Genesis 40:12 – Genesis 50:26 5 Exodus 1:1 – Exodus 15:18 6 Exodus 15:19 Exodus 28:43 7 Exodus 29:1 Exodus 40:38 8 Leviticus 1:1 Leviticus 14:32 9 Leviticus 14:33 Leviticus 26:26 10 Leviticus 26:27 Numbers 8:14…
Animals of the Bible
I I’m in Fish, Helen Dean. Animals of the Bible. Illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. [First book awarded the Caldecott Medal] “1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of…