Animals & Nature
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher
No big city without rats, particularly back in Ike Matthews' time. The professional rat catcher explains to us in this little volume the bes…
The Jay Bird Who Went Tame
The Jay Bird Who Went Tame is a children's story about different animals from the nature relating with humans in a rural environment. (Summa…
The Wishing-Stone Stories
Tommy is a young farm lad with a keen interest in all animals. On the edge of the Green Meadows, he finds an old grey rock. He discovers tha…
Cats
How true is the old saw: "Dogs have families, but cats have staff"? Cats have been favorite domestic pets for thousands of years. …
Handbook of Nature-Study
Handbook of Nature-Study by Anna Botsford Comstock is an essential guide for both children and educators, designed to foster a deep apprecia…
An Introduction to the Birds of Pennsylvania
George Miksch Sutton was a world renowned ornithologist whose art and studies rival those of Audubon. In this volume Sutton presents brief d…
Stories of the First American Animals
Combining beast fable with natural history, this is a highly engaging and informative account of some of the prehistoric mammals that once r…
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
“Poor Pig Robinson Crusoe!
Oh, how in the world could they do so?
They have set him afloat, in a horrible boat,
Oh, poor pig Robinson Crusoe…
The American Bee Journal
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…
The Wavy Tailed Warrior
This is a children's story about a skunk and his different animals friends such as cows, snakes, mice and rabbits who share a forest togethe…
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame wrote a classic children’s tale in 1908 - he penned The Wind in the Willows. He wrote of the English countryside and the bea…
The Story of Scraggles
"I was only a little baby song-sparrow, and from the moment I came out of my shell everybody knew there was something the matter with m…
Movement & Progression of Animals
Movement of Animals (or On the Motion of Animals; Greek Περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως; Latin De Motu Animalium) begins with a discussion of the physics…
Tamba, The Tame Tiger
Richard Barnum was the pseudonym adopted by several authors of the Stratemeyer Syndicate when writing the Kneetime Animal Stories for childr…
Bee Hunting
Many books on sports of various kinds have been written, but outside of an occasional article in periodicals devoted to bee literature, but …
Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking
An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good …
The Wind in the Willows
A children's classic, this is the story of Rat and Mole, who have many adventures both on and off their beloved river, with their friends To…
The Cat
The Cat by Philip M. Rule explores the intriguing history and origins of the domestic cat, tracing its journey from ancient reverence to mod…
Animal Behavior
Instructor: Gerald Schneider
Most of the major categories of adaptive behavior can be seen in all animals. This course begins with the evol…