Illustrations From The Costume Of China
These illustrations are cropped and edited – ready to use in projects! From the book The Costume of China in the public domain.
View ArticleThe World Of Fashion Images
If you love historical dress and fashion, I have some great images to share with you! These beauties come from the public domain book The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons. I have no idea...
View ArticleA Day With Longfellow
Little snippets from the poet’s life, interwoven with his own prose, make this an excellent study for history or notebooking. The selections could also be used as inspiration for copywork selections....
View ArticleGutenberg Now Has Easier Searching Tool
Have you been to gutenberg.org to browse around lately? They have done some work to the site, including vamping up their search tool and adding some social media options. Now you can search by keyword,...
View ArticleStories And Rhymes About Dogs
Dogs are a longtime favorite topic for children of all ages. Man’s best friend makes his appearance in many great works of literature, as well as rhymes and fun tales to delight the young and old....
View ArticlePublic Domain Cat Ebooks
Maybe dogs aren’t your particular cup of tea – and you prefer cats instead. Have no fear, there are plenty of public domain ebooks about cats, kitties, and the like! Cats & Kittens Stories About...
View ArticleDaddy Takes Us To The Garden
This book would be fun to read as part of a home economics or gardening unit. This is a fun story of two children who help their father in the garden, but it also has a lot of detail on the actual...
View ArticleSnake & Reptile Nature Ebooks
Last week someone on the Homeschool Commons Facebook page asked if I had seen any free ebooks about snakes. While she was looking for material to read to her younger son, I found mostly adult books....
View ArticleThe Boy Travellers
A Civil War soldier turned journalist, turned world traveller, Thomas Knox was a man that knew adventure. Are you familiar with The King and I? Well – Knox actually knew the king of Siam intimately...
View ArticleOptions for Downloading Ebooks on Gutenberg.org
Most of the books that I share on Homeschool Commons are linked to sites like gutenberg.org and archive.org. The reasons for this are: It saves my server from crashing. If I uploaded each book to the...
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