MainLesson.com hosts a free archive of public domain children's literature
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The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project...Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children
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About Us
I, Lisa, have always loved books! As a child I treasured the few volumes I owned, reading and rereading them. A family copy of the Junior Classics was in the hall bookcase right outside my bedroom door and I spent many hours poring over the pages of those ten volumes. At Christmas I looked forward eagerly to the box of books we received from my Aunt Sarah and to the individual books presented to me by my Granny and Uncle Ralph.
Even as a young adult, I continued to be interested in children's books, but my interest blossomed when my first child was born 21 years ago. I started scouring used book stores and thrift shops for quality children's books. I eagerly devoured any book about children's books that I could find. The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease introduced me to the joys of reading aloud and Babies Need Books by Dorothy Butler pointed me to lots of wonderful titles for children up to the age of 5, my only frustration being that many of the books that she, as a New Zealander, recommended were not available in this country. From Babies Need Books we moved on to the titles recommended in For Reading Out Loud! by Margaret Mary Kimmel and Elizabeth Segel and finally to the books profiled in Books That Build Character by William Kilpatrick and Gregory and Suzanne Wolfe. By that time I had had two more children, so I had a chance to go back and start the whole journey over again!
When my older child was in the sixth grade, I became interested in the homeschooling movement. I was delighted to find so many wonderful books offered in the pages of the homeschooling catalogs. I was also intrigued to find that a number of older books were being reprinted for use by homeschoolers.
