Category: Ambleside Online

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

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July 1, 2009July 31, 2012

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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

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How the Whale Got His Throat

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How The Camel Got His Hump

How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin

How the Leopard Got His Spots

The Elephant’s Child

The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo

The Beginning of the Armadillos

How the First Letter was Written

How The Alphabet Was Made

The Crab that Played with the Sea

The Cat that Walked by Himself

The Butterfly that Stamped

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

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Chapter 1- Mowgli’s Brothers (part 1)

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The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder.

Chapter 1 – Mowgli’s Brothers (part 2) + Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack

Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 1)

Chapter 2 – Kaa’s Hunting (part 2) + Road-Song of the Bandar-Log

Chapter 3 – Tiger! Tiger! (part 1)

Chapter 3- Tiger! Tiger! (part 2) + Mowgli’s Song

Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 1)

Chapter 4 – The White Seal (part 2) + Lukannon

Rikki Tikki looked down between the boy's collar and neck.

Chapter 5- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi + Darzee’s Chant

Chapter 6 – Toomai of the Elephants + Shiv and the Grasshopper

Chapter 7 – Her Majesty’s Servants + Parade Song of the Camp Animals

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

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CHAPTER IV. STEPPING-STONES

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CHAPTER I. NAT

CHAPTER II. THE BOYS

CHAPTER III. SUNDAY

CHAPTER V. PATTYPANS

CHAPTER VI. A FIRE BRAND

CHAPTER VII. NAUGHTY NAN

CHAPTER VIII. PRANKS AND PLAYS

CHAPTER IX. DAISY’S BALL

CHAPTER X. HOME AGAIN

CHAPTER XI. UNCLE TEDDY

CHAPTER XII. HUCKLEBERRIES

CHAPTER XIII. GOLDILOCKS

CHAPTER XIV. DAMON AND PYTHIAS

CHAPTER XV. IN THE WILLOW

CHAPTER XVI. TAMING THE COLT

CHAPTER XVII. COMPOSITION DAY

CHAPTER XVIII. CROPS

CHAPTER XIX. JOHN BROOKE

CHAPTER XX. ROUND THE FIRE

CHAPTER XXI. THANKSGIVING

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge

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04 – Hans and Gretel Find a Friend

05 – Shadows in the Home

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Total running time: 9 hours, 58 minutes

00 – Preface & Letter

01 – Hans and Gretel

02 – Holland

03 – The Silver Skates

06 – Sunbeams

07 – Hans Has His Way

08 – Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin

09 – The Festival of Saint Nicholas

10 – What the Boys Saw & Did in Amsterdam

11 – Big Manias and Little Oddities

12 – On the Way to Haarlem

13 – A Catastrophe

14 – Hans

15 – Homes

16 – Haarlem, The Boys Hear Voices

17 – The Man With Four Heads

18 – Friends in Need

19 – On the Canal

20 – Jacob Poot Changes the Plan

21 – Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare

22 – The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous

23 – Before The Court

24 – The Beleaguered Cities

25 – Leyden

26 – The Palace in the Wood

27 – The Merchant Prince & the Sister-Princess

28 – Through The Hague

29-30 – A Day of Rest – Homeward Bound

31 – Boys and Girls

32 – The Crisis

33 – Gretel and Hilda

34 – The Awakening

35 – Bones and Tongues

36 – A New Alarm

37 – The Father’s Return

38 – The Thousand Guilders

39 – Glimpses

40 – Looking for Work

41 – The Fairy Godmother

42 – The Mysterious Watch

43 – A Discovery

44-The Race

45 – Joy in the Cottage

46 – Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs

47 – Broad Sunshine

48 – Conclusion

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Total running time: 19 hours

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PART 1

ONE: PLAYING PILGRIMS

TWO: A MERRY CHRISTMAS

THREE: THE LAURENCE BOY

FOUR: BURDENS

FIVE: BEING NEIGHBORLY

SIX: BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL

SEVEN: AMY’S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION

EIGHT: JO MEETS APOLLYON

NINE: MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR

TEN: THE P.C. AND P.O.

ELEVEN: EXPERIMENTS

TWELVE: CAMP LAURENCE

THIRTEEN: CASTLES IN THE AIR

FOURTEEN: SECRETS

FIFTEEN: A TELEGRAM

SIXTEEN: LETTERS

SEVENTEEN: LITTLE FAITHFUL

EIGHTEEN: DARK DAYS

NINETEEN: AMY’S WILL

TWENTY: CONFIDENTIAL

TWENTY-ONE: LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE

TWENTY-TWO: PLEASANT MEADOWS

TWENTY-THREE: AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION

PART 2

TWENTY-FOUR: GOSSIP

TWENTY-FIVE: THE FIRST WEDDING

TWENTY-SIX: ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS

TWENTY-SEVEN: LITERARY LESSONS

TWENTY-EIGHT: DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES

TWENTY-NINE: CALLS

THIRTY: CONSEQUENCES

THIRTY-ONE: OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THIRTY-TWO: TENDER TROUBLES

THIRTY-THREE: JO’S JOURNAL

THIRTY-FOUR: FRIEND

THIRTY-FIVE: HEARTACHE

THIRTY-SIX: BETH’S SECRET

THIRTY-SEVEN: NEW IMPRESSIONS

THIRTY-EIGHT: ON THE SHELF

THIRTY-NINE: LAZY LAURENCE

FORTY: THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

FORTY-ONE: LEARNING TO FORGET

FORTY-TWO: ALL ALONE

FORTY-THREE: SURPRISES

FORTY-FOUR: MY LORD AND LADY

FORTY-FIVE: DAISY AND DEMI

FORTY-SIX: UNDER THE UMBRELLA

FORTY-SEVEN: HARVEST TIME

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Velveteen Rabbit duet

June 24, 2009August 7, 2012

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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Summary: The Five Little Peppers series was created by Margaret Sidney covering the life of five children with the surname Pepper. The Pepper children were very poor, and their widowed mother was left to raise them by herself. In order of age (descending), the children’s names were Ben (Ebaniezer), Polly (Mary), Joel, Davie, and Phronsie. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew is the first book in the series. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Five Little Peppers Midway by Margaret Sidney

Five Little Peppers Grown Up
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02. Making Happiness for Mamsie

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01. A Home View

03. Mamsie’s Birthday

04. Trouble for the Little Brown House

05. More Trouble

06. Hard Days for Polly

07. The Cloud over the Little Brown House

08. Joel’s Turn

09. Sunshine Again

10. A Threatened Blow

11. Safe

12. New Friends

13. Phronsie Pays a Debt of Gratitude

14. A Letter to Jasper

15. Jolly Days

16. Getting a Christmas for the Little Ones

17. Christmas Bells!

18. Education Ahead

19. Brave Work and the Reward

20. Polly is Comforted

21. Phronsie

22. Getting Ready for Mamsie and the Boys

23. Which Treats of a Good Many Matters

24. Polly’s Dismal Morning

25. Polly’s Big Bundle

June 24, 2009May 27, 2011

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

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04 – The Shoes of Fortune

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Running time: 5 hours, 51 minutes

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01 – The Emperor

02 – The Swineherd

03 – The Real Princess

11 – The Happy Family

12 – The Story of a Mother

13 – The False Collar

14 – The Shadow

15 – The Little Match Girl

16 – The Dream of Little Tuk

17 – The Naughty Boy

18 – The Red Shoes

June 23, 2009August 7, 2012

Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling

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02 ? Young Men at the Manor

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Total running time:? 5 hours, 58 minutes

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01 ? Weland?s Sword

03 ? The Knights of the Joyous Venture

04 ? Old Men at Pevensey

05 ? A Centurion of the Thirtieth

06 ? On the Great Wall

07 ? The Winged Hats

08 ? Hal o? the Draft

09 ? Dymchurch Flit

10 ? The Treasure and the Law

June 21, 2009August 7, 2012

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, 1940 movie

According to reviewers, the movie stays fairly true to the book, except for one scene added at the end when two con-men cook up a scheme to save Plumfield from foreclosure. It may take a moment for this movie to load.

June 12, 2009August 7, 2012

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin

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King Alfred and the Cakes

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Concerning These Stories

King Alfred and the Beggar

King Canute on the Seashore

The Sons of William the Conqueror

The White Ship

King John and the Abbott

A Story of Robin Hood

Bruce and the Spider

The Black Douglas

Three Men of Gotham

Other Wise Men of Gotham

The Miller of the Dee

George Washington and His Hatchet

Grace Darling

The Story of William Tell

Arnold Winkelried

The Bell of Atri

How Napoleon Crossed the Alps

The Story of Cincinnatus

The Story of Regulus

Cornelia’s Jewels

Androclus and the Lion

Horatius at the Bridge

Julius Caesar

The Sword of Damocles

Damon and Pythias

A Laconic Answer

The Ungrateful Guest

Alexander and Bucephalus

Diogenes the Wise Man

The Brave Three Hundred

Socrates and His House

The King and His Hawk

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Maximilian and the Goose Boy

The Inchcape Rock

Whittington and His Cat

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit

1 The Council of Ways and Means

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2 Digging for Treasure

3 Being Detectives

4 Good Hunting

5 The Poet and the Editor

12 The Nobleness of Oswald

13 The Robber and the Burglar

14 The Divining Rod

15 ‘Lo, the Poor Indian!

16 The End of the Treasure Seeking

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The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

Train Tracks at Saint Lazare Station by Claude Monet

Chapter 1 The Beginning of Things

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Total running time: 5 hours, 1 minute

The Gare Saint-Lazare, Arrival of a Train by Claude Monet

Chapter 2 Peter’s Coal Mine

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn An Old Man in Red — An Old Man in Red by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Chapter 3 The Old Gentleman

Chapter 4 The Engine Burglar

Chapter 5 Prisoners and Captives

Chapter 6 Saviours of the Train

Chapter 7 For Valour

Chapter 8 The Amateur Firemen

Pleuer Ausfahrender Zug, 1902 — Departing Train by Pleuer, 1902

Chapter 9 The Pride of Perks

Chapter 10 The Terrible Secret

Chapter 11 The Hound in the Red Jersey

Chapter 12 What Bobbie Brought Home

Chapter 13 The Hound’s Grandfather

Chapter 14 The End

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The Wouldbegoods, Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit

Artist's children portrait by Jan Matejko

7 Being Beavers; or, The Young Explorers (Arctic or Otherwise)

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1 The Jungle

2 The Wouldbegoods

3 Bill’s Tombstone

4 The Tower of Mystery

Garden of the artist at Vethueil by Monet

5 The Waterworks

6 The Circus

8 The High-Born Babe

9 Hunting the Fox

10 The Sale of Antiquities

11 The Benevolent Bar

12 The Canterbury Pilgrims

13 The Dragon’s Teeth; or, Army Seed

14 Albert’s Uncle’s Grandmother; or, The Long-Lost

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit

Summary: This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to grant one wish of theirs per day. The children’s wishes send them on adventure after adventure, but rarely turn out as expected. (Summary by Kara)

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