Zoo Keeper Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 One of my boys (the 9 yo) has been a very tough nut to crack as far as independent reading; he wants "real books," but he does not have ANY desire for the usual cast of "age appropriate" chapter books that show up on lots of lists, and that inhabit my shelves (such as Stuart Little, Frindle, etc.) The one exception was the Henry Huggins books, but those were last year's material, and he is sooo much older and wiser now... :coolgleamA: I have a pile of DK type leveled readers, through level 4 and 5, on history and science topics, lovely pictures and interesting text. Many of them I bought with him in mind. He hates them. :001_rolleyes: They are "baby books" because they "just have lots and lots of pictures." In desperation, I turned to some vintage readers. He is currently working through The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Three by Georgine Burchill et al.(found on google books). He reads daily, narrates to me, and then and draws his copywork from the stories. He's not expressing a whole lot of happiness with it, but he's not complaining either, so I'm willing to call it a win. ;) He will finish Book Three soon, and I'm not sure I want to jump to Book Four yet. Any other vintage readers (anthologies, etc.) I should look into? I do use vintage loosely; my main need is something FREE, or cheap to print off as needed. Please, no McGuffey. We tried that, and he despises the moralizing in most of the stories. He doesn't want to have his character worked on, he just wants to read an interesting story. :biggrinjester: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Aren't the Elson readers vintage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 Thanks, Ellie, I'll look at Elson. Anyone else have something? I'm all ears... :bigear: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jens2sons Posted November 15, 2014 Share Posted November 15, 2014 Have you heard of Yesterday's Classics? There are HUNDREDS of vintage books and they are in epub and kindle format. If you take a look at the list of books, you can find a good portion of them for free at places like "Project Gutenberg", however if you can afford the downloads for YC, it's so much better because they have taken the time to format the books where the chapter links work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted November 15, 2014 Author Share Posted November 15, 2014 Thanks for the suggestion, Jennifer. I have looked at mainlesson.com (same content as YC) before, but I needed the reminder to look again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddlemomma Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Have you tried the "Journeys Through Bookland" series? http://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Through-Bookland-Vol-2-ebook/dp/B004TP8AN6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1416100672&sr=1-1&keywords=journeys+through+bookland There are 10 books. The tenth book is the reading guide. Currently, I only see 7 available as free Kindle books. You may be able to find more of them at other free ebook venues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Does this thread help? :lol: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/427669-vintage-primer-with-consonant-blends-but-only-long-and-short-vowels/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 Have you tried the "Journeys Through Bookland" series? http://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Through-Bookland-Vol-2-ebook/dp/B004TP8AN6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1416100672&sr=1-1&keywords=journeys+through+bookland There are 10 books. The tenth book is the reading guide. Currently, I only see 7 available as free Kindle books. You may be able to find more of them at other free ebook venues. Hey! I can find (most) all of these on archive.org! In Kindle and pdf! I can print out his own custom book! Whoo! Hoo! Now to figure out what book...and what parts.... :willy_nilly: What fun! Thanks. ( I really do mean that. :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddlemomma Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Hey! I can find (most) all of these on archive.org! In Kindle and pdf! I can print out his own custom book! Whoo! Hoo! Now to figure out what book...and what parts.... :willy_nilly: What fun! Thanks. ( I really do mean that. :D) No problem; glad to help. I found these at the suggestion of another member of this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 Does this thread help? :lol: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/427669-vintage-primer-with-consonant-blends-but-only-long-and-short-vowels/ Yes, it does! There are some series mentioned there that I have never heard of. I was hoping you would chime in...I know you have spent more time knocking these options around than I have. Thanks! :thumbup1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Yes, it does! There are some series mentioned there that I have never heard of. I was hoping you would chime in...I know you have spent more time knocking these options around than I have. Thanks! :thumbup1: I was just obsessing that evening, and, yes, there are some RARE links there. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Have you tried the "Journeys Through Bookland" series? http://www.amazon.com/Journeys-Through-Bookland-Vol-2-ebook/dp/B004TP8AN6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1416100672&sr=1-1&keywords=journeys+through+bookland There are 10 books. The tenth book is the reading guide. Currently, I only see 7 available as free Kindle books. You may be able to find more of them at other free ebook venues. And from NZ I am not even allowed to look at the preview of the kindle edition. It is really not reasonable that I have a legal kindle but not full use of kindle services. Moan over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Here are some links to past threads that may be helpful. Best wishes. Anthologies: The Children's Hour vs Young Folks' Library vs ? My Book House vs Journeys Through Bookland... compare How to use "My Book House" set? Leveled reader compilation similar to My Book House? Just wanted to share again how much I really like Journeys through Bookland Collier's Young Folks books questions Which 20 books help prepare for reading the Great Books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Keeper Posted November 16, 2014 Author Share Posted November 16, 2014 Twigs, you just made my day. And maybe tomorrow, as well. :) Thanks for all those lovely links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 Twigs, you just made my day. And maybe tomorrow, as well. :) Thanks for all those lovely links. You're welcome! Since I can't tag threads anymore, I try to find useful related threads and post them in current threads. I hope you find what you are looking for. Best wishes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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