Books with author John Rae III

This pictorial record of Morris County, New Jersey, traces the dramatic rise of America’s least-known colony of millionaires during the Gilded Age. The area became a country retreat for the upper class. Families such as the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Kountzes, Wolffs, Dodges, and Claflins built impressive estates in the area referred to as the“inland Newport.” By the 1920s, the prominence of Morris County was eclipsed by the lure of Long Island, and its economy was being threatened by the Depression. Faced with high taxes from the newly established income tax, skyrocketing maintenance costs, and a dwindling reservoir of help, the wealthy residents began razing their mansions. Although many of these vast estates have been long gone and forgotten, author John W. Rae’s collection of early Morris County photographs recaptures the area’s palatial homes in their full grandeur. Within the pages of Morris County Mansions, Rae invites you to join him on a visual tour of the magnificent architecture of the Gilded Age. Meet the area’sprominent families and discover little-known facts about the homes in which they resided.

On a sultry, threatening summer afternoon, Siobhan, Penelope, Alyce and Emily are picnicking.When the storm breaks they run for shelter - straight into an unfamiliar world which they don’t understand and where they seem to be in some danger.They have somehow (but how?) arrived, as they gradually come to realise, in some dark corner of the past, and the people they have to deal with are plotting a terrible massacre. Where and of whom, the girls cannot at first discover.Siobhan, the eldest, is also the most concerned, not only because of the real danger to herself and her sisters, but also because she feels she must warn the authorities in the person of the King’s Secretary, Robert Cecil - and yet she is fascinated by Catesby, the central conspirator.Because she has taken little interest in history, she does not know how the story will end...

'It is one thing to say that you do not believe in ghosts and quite another to walk alone through the Abbey cloisters after dark...'Going through the cloisters one evening, Emily bumps into a stranger. In the gloom she cannot see who he is, but it seems that he wears a monk's habit, and has only a stump where his hand should be. Soon after this unnerving experience, Emily and her older sisters, Penelope and Alyce, are puzzled by the appearance in Westminster Abbey of a party of French monks, led by the enigmatic Father Pierre. Is their all-night vigil at the Abbey genuine, Penelope wonders, or is it in fact a cover-up for some illegal activity? Alyce's overwhelming interest in history leads to an exciting question. Was all the treasure once guarded in the Abbey actually discovered in Tudor times; or did some remain hidden — to tempt twentieth century thieves?

Grasshopper Green was a young grasshopper who played the fiddle all summer long without preparing for the approaching winter. When the cold winter winds arrived he approached his ant friend for accommodation but was rejected. Luckily a family of field mice adopted him or he would have died. Grasshopper Green repaid the kindness of the field mice by saving the mice children from the farmer’s cat in one of the exciting moments from this captivating tale.Grasshopper Green is another one of our Children’s Picture Book series, made especially for the delight of children by authors and illustrators who know and love children, and who leave out negatives that could upset little ones. The tale of Grasshopper Green is full of simple humor and emphasizes desirable virtues like kindness and generosity without moralizing.This book is designed for children from ages six to nine. It can also be read to children aged three or older. Our Children’s Picture Books contain lots of pictures to illustrate the storyline and stimulate the imagination of young children.The story was written by John Rae who also created the beautiful color illustrations that help bring the tale to life through fantastic imagery.Even though this story is almost a century old, the lessons it teaches are timeless and will never grow out of date, nor will the delightful pictures. You can now share it with a new generation and this digital ebook makes sharing very easy. It's very legible on Kindle for iPhone/iPad/Android/Blackberry or Kindle for PC or other devices where you can view it in color.

It was Jonny who had not liked the idea of spending a night alone in Westminster Abbey, the great London Cathedral, with his twin brother Shamus, but it was Jonny who volunteered to be held hostage by the ghostly crowd of princes, kings and warriors who came to life at midnight, as a protest against the all-night opening of the Abbey.But just as the ghosts were there all night, and gone with the dawn, so too was Jonny, leaving Shamus to convince everyone that the Abbey ghosts really did exist and that Jonny was with them. Or did the ghosts exist only in his imagination? If so, what had happened to the missing Jonny?John Rae, the former Headmaster of Westminster School, wrote this brilliant, chilling and intriguing tale that can be read as a ghost story or a thriller, and that has more to offer on every reading.

Returning from the theatre with the family one bitterly cold night, Alyce and Emily discover a tramp asleep under a railway bridge.The next day, the girls feel impelled to search him out in wintry London, and from then on Benedict O’Hara becomes their worry and concern.Does he really want to return to his native Ireland for Christmas?And, anyway, could the fare be raised in such a short time?However, for Alyce there is the more disturbing, though irrational, fear that their marvellous traditional family Christmas might be altogether ruined.

To Emily the prospect of a cultural holiday in Leningrad seemed rather dull, until an adventure presented itself the moment she and her family stepped off the plane at Leningrad airport. For who was the mysterious Mrs Hannay accompanying them on their tour? And why was her photograph kept by the authorities at Leningrad Airport?Was their Russian guide, the amiable Mr Oblamov, really trailing Mrs Hannay, waiting for a false move?And what was the connection between Mrs Hannay, the Dubinsky family and the Leonardo da Vinci in the Hermitage Museum?Emily felt sure she knew the answer to the mystery and, together with her sister Alyce, was determined to act.

This pictorial record of Morris County, New Jersey, traces the dramatic rise of America's least-known colony of millionaires during the Gilded Age. The area became a country retreat for the upper class. Families such as the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Kountzes, Wolffs, Dodges, and Claflins built impressive estates in the area referred to as the "inland Newport." By the 1920s, the prominence of Morris County was eclipsed by the lure of Long Island, and its economy was being threatened by the Depression. Faced with high taxes from the newly established income tax, skyrocketing maintenance costs, and a dwindling reservoir of help, the wealthy residents began razing their mansions. Although many of these vast estates have been long gone and forgotten, author John W. Rae's collection of early Morris County photographs recaptures the area's palatial homes in their full grandeur. Within the pages of Morris County Mansions, Rae invites you to join him on a visual tour of the magnificent architecture of the Gilded Age. Meet the area's prominent families and discover little-known facts about the homes in which they resided.

This is the story of the grasshopper who fiddled all summer and didn't have any place to go when the cold winter wind began to blow. "No, you can't live in my house this winter," said the hard-hearted ant, but a family of field mice took in Grasshopper Green and gave him gooseberry syrup for his cough and made him very comfortable. Eyes will grow big at the exciting climax of the story, when Grasshopper Green saves the mice children from a big black cat.