Books on CD ROM

Children's Books

Copyright © 2001 Richard Seltzer

This Web page shows the table of contents of our Children's Books 2-CD set. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD.

Intended for use with Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs, this 2-CD set, with 2396 books, was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The books themselves are in the public domain. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

For details about our other CDs see www.samizdat.com/readme.html

Questions? If Richard Seltzer, who created this CD, is online now, you can chat with him immediately by clicking on his photo (below). If he is offline, you can send him an email by clicking on his photo.

This Children's Book 2CD set, with 2396 classic children's books, in plain text is available for $49 at our online store.

If you would like to have your PC (with speakers) read these texts aloud to you, while they are displayed in text on the screen, see below about the free ReadPlease software that we have included on this CD. (NB -- This version of  the ReadPlease software does not run on Macs).

For details about this publishing service, check the readme document. You can contact us at seltzer@samizdat.com, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132-002. 617-469-2269.

User's Guide: Suggestions on how to get the most out of your books on CD ROM  In addition, Coursesuseek has a short eCourse about "Ebooks in the Literature Classroom" that deals specifically about the use of books on CD ROM. You can receive this for free by sending a blank mail to course@coursesuseek.com. The course is about 8 pages long and is in PDF.

All but one of these books are in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original.  You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

One book is in html (Web) format Pictures Every Child Should Know, by Dolores Bacon, a selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People, illustrated with black and white versions of great paintings and including biographies of the artists.  Things to Make by Archibald Williams and The Boy Mechanic Volume 1 are in .pdf form as well as plain text, to show the illustrations.

We publish plain text and html books (unencrypted) on CD and DVD, and we want to provide a simple way for customers and other interested people to share their insights into how to get the most out of this new way of reading and studying. To do so we have set up an email discussion group at Yahoo. All are welcome to join and to post here, but I'll manage this group in "moderated" style, filtering messages before they go out to the whole group, to control the volume of the messages and to make sure that they are on-topic. Tips and information that would be helpful to people you have plain text books on CD are welcome -- including examples of how you are using yours, suggestions for improvement,  suggestions for future CDs, and useful/interesting texts found on the Web that should be included in future CDs. To subscribe, go to the discussion group Web site at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaintextbooksoncd  or send a blank email to plaintextbooksoncd-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


Table of Contents of the Children's Book CD

This Children's Book 2-CD set, with 2396 classic children's books, in plain text is available for $49 at our online store.


About Children's Books


Advice and How-to


Anonymous


Anthologies, Collections, Adaptations for Children, and General


Periodicals


Series with more than one author

Boy Allies Boy Scouts Radio Boys


Art


Hans Aanrud


Eleanor Abbott


Jacob Abbott


Jane Abbott


John Abbott


Sherrred Willcox Adams


Aesop


Louisa Mae Alcott


Janet Aldridge


Captain Quincy Allen


Samuel Allison


Hans Christian Andersen


Elizabeth Anderson


Jane Andrews


Honor Appleton


Victor Appleton (pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate)


Jean Archer


Ernest Aris


T.S. Arthur


Louis Arundel


Angela Ashford


Josephine Daskam Bacon


Sir Robert Baden-Powell


Joseph E. Badger, Jr.


Arthur Scott Bailey (1877-1949) brief bio at Wikipedia


Temple Bailey


Jean K. Baird


Willard Baker


Mrs. Woods Baker


May Baldwin


R.M. Ballantyne


Honore de Balzac


Helen Bannerman


Ralph Henry Barbour


Evelyn Snead Barnett


Richard Barnum


Vance Barnum


J.M. Barrie


Frances Elizabeth Barrow


Fanny Barry


Sara Ware Bassett


Clara Doris Bates


Captain Gordon Bates


(Lyman) Frank Baum (1856-1919)

Oz books Writing under the pseudonym Edith Van Dyne: Writing under the pseudonym Laura Bancroft Other books


Charles Amory Beach


Dan Beard


Grace Beaumont


Emile de la Bedolliere


Charles Bennett


Irene Benson


Caorline French Benton


Henry Beston


Lucien Biart


Clifton Bingham


Austin Bishop


Edith Ferguson Black


Mary Frances Blaisdell


Captain John Blaine


Amy Blanchard


A. Russell Bond


Captain Ralph Bonehill


Richard Bonner


Elisabeth Bonsall


Waldemar Bonsels


Silas Boone


William Bowen


Cyrus Townsend Brady


Edith Gilman Brewster


William Perry Brown


L. Leslie Brooke


Amy Brooks


E. S. Brooks


Abbie Farwell Brown


Ruth Alberta Brown


Frances Browne


Robert Browning


Charles Bruce


Sara Cone Bryant


Thomas Bulfinch


Selina Bunbury


E.R. Burden


Thornton Burgess (1874-1965) brief bio at Wikipedia


Cyril Burleigh


Alice Hale Burnett


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Margaret Burnham


Edgar Rice Burroughs


Mary Burt


Ellis Parker Butler


Hezekiah Buttersworth


Donn Byrne


William Canton


Rosa N. Carey


Annie Roe Carr


Lewis Carroll


Charles Carryl


Guy Wetmore Carryl


Captain James Carson


Andre Castaigne


Harry Castlemon


Lester Chadwick


Amy D.V. Chalmers


Katharine Chandler


Allen Chapman


Geoffrey Chaucer


Cherubini


Alfred Church


Ella Rodman Church


Margaret Bruce Clarke


Ernest Cobb


Frank Cobb


Harry Collingwood


C. Collodi  [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini]


Padraic Colum


Harriet Comstock


Hilda Conkling


Agnes Ethel Conway and Sir Martin Conway


Marjorie Benton Cooke


Susan Coolidge [Sarah Chauncey Woolsey], American (1839-1905)


Florence Coombe


F. Lovell Coombs


Mary Spring Corning


David Cory


Stephen Angus Cox


Charles Egbert Craddock


Dinah Craik


Laura Dent Crane


Walter Crane


S. R. Crockett


Martha Foote Crow


Gertrude Crownfield


Mrs. George Cupples


Ray Cunningham


Alice Turner Curtis


Phebe Curtiss


James Curwood, Canadian (1878-1927)


Leona Dalrymple


Louise de la Ramee


Esther Birdsall Darling


Halsey Davidson


A.J. Dawson


Holman Day


Fremont Deering


Margaret Deland


John De Morgan


C.J. Dennis


W.W. Denslow


Samuel A. Derieux


Charles Dickens


Louis Dodge


Mary Mapes Dodge


Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne


Annie Hamilton Donnell


Francis Worcester Doughty, 1850-1917


Captain Alan Douglas


Amanda M. Douglas


O. Douglas


Emma Dowd


Jennifer Drinkwater


James Driscoll


Elizabeth M. Duffield


Edmund Dulac


Gertrude P. Dyer


J.G. Edgar


Elsie Spicer Eells


Edward Eggleston


George Cary Eggleston


Margaret W. Eggleston


R. Eivind


Ethel Cook Eliot


Edward Ellis (1840-1916)


Mary Ellis


Alfred Elwes


Alice Emerson


Douglas English


Everett Evelyn-Green


Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) brief bio at Wikipedia


J. Meade Falkner


Howard B. Famous


Frederick Farrar


G.E. Farrow


George Manville Fenn (1831-1909)


Donald Ferguson


Fanny Fern


Ben Field


Eugene Field


Sarah Fielding


Roger T. Finlay


Martha Finley


John Finnemore


Colonel James Fiske


Percy Fitzhugh


Jessie Graham Flower (?-1931)


Madame Eugenie Foa


John Taintor Foote


Graham Forbes


Robert Ford


Sewell Ford (1868-1946)


Francis Forrester


Izola Forrester


Eith Frances Foster


Friedrich de la Motte Fouquee


Frank Fowler


Stella Francis


Chelsea Curtis Fraser


Joseph Lewis French


Hildegard Frey


William Henry Frost


Miriam Gaines


Zona Gale


Katherine Keene Galt


Howard Garis


Lilian Garis


Eleanor Gates


Mrs. Alfred Gatty


Prince Sarath Ghosh


Henry Gilbert


Pemberton Ginther


Geraldine Robertson Glasgow


Montague Glass


Arthur H. Gleason


Elinor Glyn


Anna Graetz


Kenneth Grahame, Scottish (1859-1932)


Joslyn Gray


William Murray Graydon


Kate Greenaway


Frances Nimmo Greene


Homer Greene


Jackson Gregory


The Brothers Grimm


Johnny Gruelle


John Habberton


Captain Charles W. Hall


Jennie Hall


Cosmo Hamilton


H. Irving Hancock


Joel Chandler Harris


William S. Hart


Clarence Hawkes


Mabel Hawley


Julian Hawthorne


Nathaniel Hawthorne


Clair W. Hayes


Mrs. W.J. Hays


Jno. P. Headley, Jr.


Elizabeth Heber


Sven Hedin


Bracebridge Hemyng


James B. Hendryx


Mimie Herbert


Charlotte Herr


William Heyliger


Charlotte M. Higgins


Grace Brooks Hill


Thomas Clark Hinkle


Melvin Hix


Edward Hoare


A. Hoatson


L.V. Hodgkin


Mrs. Hofland


Henry Hoffman


Florence Holbrook


Rupert Holland


F. M. Holmes


Mrs. Mary J. Holmes


Prescott Holmes


Emily Sarah Holt


Forrestine C. Hooker


Laura Lee Hope (pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate)


William John Hopkins


Emerson Hough


Lewis Hough


William Dean Howells


Edith Howes


Ethel Hueston


Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)


William Davenport Hulbert


Ethel Hume


John Conroy Hutcheson, brief bio at Wikipedia


Jean Ingelow


Washington Irving


Inez Haynes Irwin


Gabrielle Jackson


Leroy Jackson


C.E. Jacobs and Edyth Ellerbeck Read


Joseph Jacobs


Japanese


Mary Bowles Jarvis


Theodora Jenness


Edgar Jepson


Sarah Orne Jewett


James Johnson


Annie Fellows Johnston


James Johonnot


Erasmus Jones


Clara Ingram Judson


Ross Kay


Marian Keith


Charles Kellogg


Marianne L. B. Ker


J.G. and C. Kernahan


Dorothy Kilner


Charles Kingsley


W.H.G. Kingston (1814-1880) brief bio at Wikipedia


Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) brief bio at Wikipedia


Edith Brown Kirkwood


Gertrude Knevel


Sir James Knowles


Peter Kyne


Claude A. Labelle


Laboulaye


Jean de la Fontaine


Charles and Mary Lamb


Andrew Lang


Mrs. Jean Lang (wife of Andrew Lang)


John Luther Langworthy


W.T. Larned


J. Latchmore


W.B. Laughead


Edith Lavell


Josephine Lawrence


Lizzie Lawson


Wilbur Lawton


Edward Lear


Elizabeth Davis Leavitt


Georgette Leblanc (Madame Maurice Maeterlinck)


Felix Leigh


Mary Leonard


Charles Henry Lerrigo


Emma Leslie


Lawrence J. Leslie


Mrs. Madeline Leslie


Pauline Lester


Luke Limner


Maud Lindsay


Hugh Lofting


Helen Beecher Long


William Long


Burren Loughlin and L.L. Flood


Samuel Lowe


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Mrs. Belloc Lowndes


E.V. Lucas


Mary Ella Lyng


Fannie Macaulay


George MacDonald, Scottish (1824-1905)


Mary MacGregor


Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927)


Constance d'Arcy Mackay


Mabel Mackintosh


S. MacNaughton


Hattie Macomber


Norman MacLeod


Lucy Foster Madison


Julia Charlotte Maitland


Belle Kanaris Maniates


Anne Manning (1807-1879)


Miss Mant


Jeanette Marks and Julia Moody


Amy Bell Marlowe


Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) brief bio at Wikipedia


George Madden Martin


William Martin


Harriet Martineau


Ada Marzials


Cornelius Mathews


Joanna Mathews


Furnley Maurice


Carrie L. May (Mrs. May)


Sophie May


George McCutcheon


Hugh McHugh


Margaret McIntyre


J. Walker McSpadden


Mrs. L.T. Meade


Florence Crannell Means


Cornelia Meigs


Maud Menefee


Miriam Michelson


Henry Russell Miller


Joaquin Miller


Lebbeus Mitchell


Ruth Comfort Mitchell


S. Weir Mitchell


G.E. Mitton


Mrs. Molesworth


Kirk Monroe


Frances Trego Montgomery


John Luther Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery


Clement Moore


Harry Moore


Margaret Warner Morley


Gertrude Morrison


John Theodore Mueller


Clara Muholland


Rosa Muholland [Lady Gilbert]


Dhan Gopal Mukerj


Lenore Elizabeth Mulets


Miss Mulock (Pseudonym of Maria Dinah Craik)


Kirk Munroe


Mrs. Harriet Myrtle


E. Nesbit


Emily Neville


Fannie Newberry


Peter Newell


Karen Nieman


Ruth Ogden


Frances Jenkins Olcott


Alfred Ollivant


Oliver Optic (= William Adams)


George Orton


Helen Fuller Orton


James Otis


Isabel Maud Pacocke


Thomas Nelson Page


Albert Bigelow Paine


Ralph D. Paine


Pansy [Isabella MacDonald Alden]


J. Harwood Panting


Edith M. Patch


Frank Gee Patchin


G. Sidney Paternoster


Raymond Paton


Virginia Patterson


George Peck


Ethel Pedley


Margaret Penrose


Mrs. Pering


Lucy Fitch Perkins


Charles Perrault


Nora Perry


Rebecca Sparks Peters


Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


Ethel Calvert Phillips


Henry Wallace Phillips


Eden Phillpotts


Norman Hinsdale Pitman


Eleanor Porter


Melville Davisson Post


Amy Prentice


Edith Ballinger Price


Ernie Howard Pyle


Katharine Pyle


Laurel-Clarke Pyrnelle


Herbert Quick


Maude Radford


Edward Rand


Homer Randall


Sidney Ransom (AKA M. Yendis)


Arthur Ransome


St. George Rathbone


Anna Chapin Ray


Evelyn Raymond


Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893) brief bio at Wikipedia

Captain Mayne Reid


Jean S. Remy


Charles Edward Rich


John Richards


Laura Richards


Grace Richmond


Henry Milner Rideout


Jacob August Riis


James Whitcomb Riley


Amelie Rives


Margaret Robertson


Edward Robins


Roy Rockwood


Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Captain Wyn Roosevelt


Mr. Roscoe


Lillian Elizabeth Roy


John Ruskin


Edwin Sabin


Mrs. S. B. C. Samuels


Marshall Saunders = pen name of Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947)


H.C. Sayler


Julia A. Schwarz


Morgan Scott


Horace Scudder


Augusta Huiell Seaman


Molly Eliot Seawell


Herman Gastrell Seely


Ernest Seton-Thompson, American (1860-1946)


Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson


Anna Sewell


Captain V.T. Sherman


Anna McClure Sholl


Henry Shute


Margaret Sidney


Albert F. Siepert


Florence Sitwell


Annie Trumbull Slosson


Frank Smedley


Samuel Smiles


Laura Rountree Smith


Maybell S.C. Smith


Ruel Perley Smith


Thomas Smith


Roy Snell


Nell Speed


Joseph Spillmann


Johanna Spyri


Dr. Gordon-Stables


Burt Standish


Amy Steedman


Flora Annie Steel


Evaleen Stein


H.L. Stephens


James Stephens


Frances R. Sterrett


Charles McClellan Stevens (1861-?)


Robert Louis Stevenson


Jane Stewart


Frank Stockton (1834-1902) brief bio at Wikipedia


Katherine Stokes


Roy Eliot Stokes


Harriet Beecher Stowe


Edward Stratemeyer


Gene Stratton-Porter


Hesba Stretton


Florence Portello Stuart


Ruth McInery Stuart


Frederick Swainson


Sohie Swett


Alta Tabor


Eva March Tappan


Booth Tarkington


Edward Taylor


Albert Payson Terhune


William Makepeace Thackeray


William M. Thayer


Lewis Theiss


Theodore Thinker


Charles Miner Thompson


Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen


Mary Westyn Timlow


Albert W. Tolman


Everett Tomlinson


Louis Tracy


Catherine Pan Traill


J. T. Trowbridge


Charlotte Maria Tucker (AKA A.L.O.E.) (1821-1893)


Frederica J. Turle


Mark Twain


Sarah Tytler


Agnes Underwood


Bertha Upton


Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Margaret Vandercook


Henry Van Dyke


Edith Van Dyne = pseudonym of Frank Baum


Vera


Christoph Von Schmid


Mary T. Waggaman


Abbie Phillips Walker


Dillon Wallace


George Ethelbert Walsh


Amy Walton


Mrs. O.F. Walton


Kenneth Ward


Margaret Warde


Susan Warner (AKA Elizabeth Wetherell), 1819-1885


George Warren


Henry Watson


Fred Weatherly


Frank Webster


Henry Webster (1875-1932)


Jean Webster (grandniece of Mark Twain) (1876-1916)


George Ludington Weed


Carolyn Wells


V. Sackville West


Edward Noyes Westcott


George Weston


Janet D. Wheeler


Eliza Orne White


Grace Miller White


Ramy Allison White


Stewart Edward White


William Allen White


G.J. Whyte-Melville


Edson L. Whitney


Elliott Whitney


Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) brief bio at Wikipedia


Captain Wilbur


Florence White Willliams


Margery Williams


C.N. (Charles Norris) Williamson (1859-1920) and A.M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson (? - 1933)


T.P. Wilson


Arthur Winfield


John Strange Winter


Eugene Wood


Mrs. Wilson Woodrow


Francis Channing Woodworth, 1812-1859 (AKA Uncle Frank)


Edward Livermore Worcester


Johann David Wyss (1743-1818)


Barbara Yechton


Charlotte Yonge


Clarence Young


Egerton Young


Samuel Zwemer



This Children's Book 2-CD set, with 2396 classic children's books, in plain text is available for $49 at our online store.

How to install and use the free ReadPlease software included on this CD

Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of  the ReadPlease software does not run on Macs). You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702



Tips for using/enjoying the texts on this CD:

The easiest way to get started is to click on My Computer, then on your CD drive, then on index.html. That should bring you to index.html, in Word or your Web browser, or WordPad or Notepad, depending on your computer's setup.

From the index, click on an individual work to see the full text in your browser or in Word. Click "Back" in your browser to return here.  Use the "find" function in your browser (under Edit/Find in both Netscape and IE) to find any word or phrase within a document.

If you use Word, you can Select All [under Edit], and modify the font and type size (to make the letters larger and easier to read) [under Format and Font], and save the files on your hard drive [under File, Save As] with whatever changes you have made (including notes you made while reading).

 We will continue to add new books to this CD as they become available. For a list of recent updates (what we added and when), see www.samizdat.com/update.html  If you buy a CD at the retail price of $29, you have the right to buy an upgraded version of the same CD for just $10, a maximum of four times per year. The "upgraded" version will contain all the texts, not just the new ones.



Note regarding copyright:  We include works published in the US before 1923, works from Australia and Canada when the author died 50 years or more ago, and works from the European Union (including the United Kingdom and Ireland when the author died 70 years or more ago). NB -- Due to The European Union's extension of copyright by 20 years to 70 years after the death of the author many works which had been in the public domain under the previous law are now once again under copyright. Hence we are unable to include on our CDs some popular writers whose works are still readily available over the Internet. For instance:

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