Books with author Elmer Boyd Smith

Pocahontas (Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe, c. 1595–1617) was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, first published in 1906. Elmer Boyd Smith (1860-1943) was an American author. He was born in St. John, New Brunswick, raised in Boston and educated in France. He worked for the Riverside Press in Boston then he travelled to Paris where he studied drawings and paintings. In 1896 he wrote and illustrated his first work entitled My Village. In 1898 he returned to Boston where he illustrated books for Houghton Mifflin.

The classic tale of Mother Goose and much, much more. You'll learn details you never knew before. MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES As Collected By The Percy Society, To Which Are Added Certain Nursery Rhymes Associated With Mother Goose Old Mother HubbardPoor Old Robinson CrusoeThere Was An Old Woman Had Three SonsThe King Of France Pussycat, PussycatOver The Water, Over The Lee When I Was A BatchelorLittle Jack JingleI Had A Little DogFour And Twenty Tailors My Daddy Is Dead The Old Woman And Her Pig Little Miss MuffetLittle Miss MopseySing A Song Of SixpenceCome, All Ye Brisk Young Batchelors There Was A Crooked Man Little Blue Billy The Man In The Moon Tom, Tom, The Piper's SonI Had A Little Moppet Tom Married A Wife On Sunday Solomon GrundyThe Lion And The Unicorn Doctor Faustus Was A Good Man Lucy Locket Lost Her PocketBessy Bell And Mary Gray I'll Tell You A Story Says Aaron To Moses A Kid, A Kid The Fox And His Wife My Lady WindLittle Jack Horner I Had A Little Husband There Was A Jolly Miller Robin The Bobbin There Was A Lady Lov'd A Swine Tommy Trot, A Man Of Law There Was An Old Woman As I've Heard Tell Dr. Foster Went To Gloucester Little Jenny Wren . The Wedding Of Jenny Wren . Simple Simon Met A Pieman Hub A Dub Dub Little Jack-a-dandy Ding Dong Bell. Robin Hood Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum "where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?" Please To Remember There Were Two Cats Of Kilkenny Jack Be Nimble When Good King Arthur Ruled This Land There Was An Old Woman Of Norwich . Egg, Cheese, Butter, Bread Little Bo-peep Tweedle-dum And Tweedle-dee DlNGTY DlDDLeDY There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe Deedle, Deedle, Dumpling Hey Ding A Ding Formed Long Ago Cock A Doodle Doo . A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go There Was A Frog Liv'd In A Well The Queen Of Hearts What Are Little Girls Made Of Ride To The Market To Buy A Fat Pig See, See, What Shall I See Zickety, Dickety, Dock Hickory, Dickory, Dock See A Pin St. Swithin's Day A Man Of Words And Not Of Deeds A Swarm Of Bees In May Goosy, Goosy, Gander Purple, Yellow, Red, And Green Little Nancy EtticoatLong Legs Two Legs Sat On Three Legs Baa, Baa Black Sheep Thirty White Horses As I Went Through Garden Gap Pease-porridge Hot Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, And BessCome, Butter, ComeAs I Was Going To St. IvesThere Was An Old Woman Toss'd UpGay Go UpBoys And Girls, Come Out To PlayPeter WhiteThere Was An Old Woman Of Surrey Matthew, Mark, Luke, And JohnGeorgie PorgieLet Us Go To The WoodsSneil, Snail Anna EliseRide A Cock HorseOld King ColeThere Were Three Jovial WelshmenThis Little Pig Went To MarketI Had A Little PonyAs Tommy SnooksLiar, LiarTell-tale, TitMultiplication Is VexationI Had A Little SisterAll Hail To The MoonHie! Diddle, DiddleCurly-locksBarber, Barber, Shave A PigAs I Was Going Up Pippen HillThere Was A Little Boy And A Little GirlThomas A DidymusWhat Care I How Black I BeLittle Robin RedbreastA Diller A DollarMistress MaryThe Cat Sat AsleepBobby ShaftoTom He Was A Piper's SonI Had A Little Hobby-horseDance, Little BabyA Riddle, A RiddleA Little Old Man And I Fell OutDickery, Dickery, DareThe Rose Is RedIf All The Sea Were One SeaCross-patchOf All Gay BirdsThere Was A Little ManSeesaw, Margery DawHow Many Miles Is It To Babylon?Rock-a-bye Baby House That Jack BuiltLady Bird, Lady BirdOne Misty, Moisty MorningLady Cow, Lady CowThe Old Goose And Her GoslingsHumpty DumptyCock RobinThe Five PigsLittle Boy BlueA Carrion Crow Dogs In The GardenLittle Tommy Grace Little Tommy TuckerThere Was An Old CoupleWhen I Was A Little BoyRide A Cock HorseHark, HarkJohn Cook Had A Gray MareAnd many more

Perfect for reading aloud, this is the finest work of E. Boyd Smith, a noted children's book illustrator of the early twentieth century. It recounts the timeless tale of Noah's ark and the aftermath of the Great Flood with delicately colored full-page illustrations. Readers of all ages will delight in Smith's rollicking animals as well as his inventive explanation of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Excerpt from My VillageYet the life of the village, though small and unimportant, still comprises in its own way all the complications of life in general.Here the petty ambitions and their workings are simply feebler specimens of those which move mighty Paris and the great world. The troubles and misfortunes of general life are nearly all more or less represented. The pain and joy, success and failure, though ever so humble, are still as important here as are greater ones in greater places. Valombre is an epitome of the world and its life. And here humanity can be studied, and conclusions reached which can be applied to any other village or city. Its characteristics, though its own, are still based on the common big lines of average life, men and women at bottom being much the same the world over, once one gets to know them well. Outer appearances are different; but the base rarely changes. Given the same conditions and circumstances, knowing a few, one can count with reason able accuracy on how the others will act.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Boyd Smith Mother Goose: With Numerous Illustrations in Color and in Black and White From Original DrawingSo until more is known of the bibliography of the 1719 edition, I fear that we must accept the following as the facts: that Mother Goose originated in France between 1650 and 1697, was translated into English by Robert Sambers in 1729, and did not reach America until 1785 when Isaiah Thomas gave us a reproduction Of Newbery. As the differ ent editions of N ewbery have been added to and changed, so has the Thomas edition. Until today we have many different versions of the same, including some very modern rhymes that have absolutely nothing to do with the original American volume of Isaiah Thomas. Which must be acceded to be the first American publication of Mother Goose.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A member of the Committee of Five that rafted and presented America's Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Father of the United States and was titled 'The First American'. With his wit and wisdom shining through every page of Franklin brings for us one of the first examples of the fulfilment of the American Dream. Though an unfinished record, this work continues to remain the most influential autobiography ever written.

Long, long ago, when the Indians owned the land, there lived in Virginia, near the river afterwards called the James, a little girl, the Princess Pocahontas, daughter of the great chief Powhatan. Pocahontas was her father's favorite child, and the pet of the whole tribe; even the fierce warriors loved her sunny ways. She was a child of nature, and the birds trusted her and came at her call. She knew their songs, and where they built their nests. So she roamed the woods, and learned the ways of all the wild things, and grew to be a care-free maiden.