Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Fictitious narratives, designed for the perusal of children, should (in the opinion of the Writer) be familiar in their _subjects_ as well as in their style; and slight in their construction: They should hardly aim to excite more than a very transient or superficial emotion. I...
Fictitious narratives, designed for the perusal of children, should (in the opinion of the Writer) be familiar in their _subjects_ as well as in their style; and slight in their...
2. Part 2“But how I wonder you do not live in the parlour: I cannot think what you have it for,” said Phebe; who was very fond of talking when her Mamma was out of the way.
3. Part 3“Now we see that John has acquired a great stock of most delightful and important knowledge. His mind is like a large room that is filled with many hundred pictures of the most...
4. Part 4As soon as breakfast was over, their Father took them out to walk: he was obliged to take great care of them, or they would have been pushed down, while they were looking eagerl...
5. Part 5_Father._ Perhaps then it is he who is fighting. Go and see. If Archibald is there, bring him away: tell him I have sent you to fetch him home: and if he is fighting, let the bo...
6. Part 6In the evening, when he went home, Thomas described to his Father the dress and appearance of the French boy whom he had seen; and he afterwards hinted at the subject of his med...