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Our Island Story: A Child's History of England, published abroad as An Island Story: A Child's History of England, is a book by the British author Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, first published in 1905 in London by T. C. & E. C. Jack. [1]
Galore Park was founded by Nicholas Oulton when, as a Classics teacher, he wrote his own Latin course, establishing the So You Really Want to Learn Latin series. The series, aimed at 10–13 year olds, has grown to include Maths, Science, English, Spanish, French, Geography and History courses.
In the preface (entitled 'How this book came to be written') Marshall states: 'I must tell you, though, that this is not a history lesson, but a story-book'. The book went out of print in the 1960s, but in 2005, an alliance of the Civitas think-tank and various national newspapers reprinted it, with the aim of sending a free copy to each of the ...
Verna Allette Wilkins FRSL (born 1943) [1] is a Grenada-born publisher and author, now resident in London.In 1987 she founded the children's books imprint Tamarind Books, "producing quality inclusive literature that featured Black, Asian and minority ethnic children and children with disabilities" out of her concern about the effect on children who did not see themselves represented in books.
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Scotland's Story is a book by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall first published in 1906 in the United Kingdom [1] and in 1910 in the United States. [2] It was reissued in 2005. [ 3 ] It is about the history of Scotland, and it also has some legends having to do with Scotland.
Delta Dorsch (March 26, 1915 – January 28, 2011) was an educator, story-teller and preserver of the cultural history of the United States Virgin Islands.Teaching for 38 years, working with the Department of Education and the Commission on the Preservation of Virgin Islands Culture, Dorsch was a tireless advocate for conserving traditions of the Virgin Islands and teaching as a means of ...
Robinson Crusoe in an 1887 illustration. Robinsonade (/ ˌ r ɒ b ɪ n s ə ˈ n eɪ d / ROB-in-sən-AYD) is a literary genre of fiction wherein the protagonist is suddenly separated from civilization, usually by being shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island, and must improvise the means of their survival from the limited resources at hand.