Books with author Laura E. Richards

Joan of Arc by Laura Elizabeth Howe RichardsFrance in the fifteenth century: what was it like?King Charles VI. of France (to go back no further) whose reign Sully, "our own good Maximilian," calls "the grave of good laws and good morals in France," was not yet twelve years old when (in 1380) his father, Charles V., died. His majority had been fixed at fourteen, and for two years he was to remain under the guardianship of his four uncles, the Dukes of Anjou, Berry, Burgundy and Bourbon. With the fourth, his mother's brother, we have no concern, for he made little trouble; the other three were instantly in dispute as to which should rule during the two years.The struggle was a brief one; Philip of Burgundy, surnamed the Bold, was by far the ablest of the three. When the young king was crowned at Rheims (October 4th, 1380), Philip, without a word to anyone, sat him down at his nephew's side, thus asserting himself premier peer of France, a place which was to be held by him and his house for many a long day.At seventeen, Charles was married (in the Cathedral of Amiens, the second jewel of France, where that of Rheims was the first) to Isabel of Bavaria, of infamous memory; and the first shadows began to darken around him.The war with England was going on in a desultory fashion. Forty years had passed since Créçy. The Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester, uncles and regents of Richard II., the young English king, were not the men to press matters, and Charles V. of France was wise enough to let well alone. The young king, however, and his Uncle Philip of Burgundy, thought it would be a fine thing to land in England with a powerful army, and return the bitter compliments paid by Edward III. "Across the Channel!" was the cry, and preparations were made on a grand scale. In September, 1386, thirteen hundred and eighty-seven vessels, large and small, were collected for the voyage; and Olivier de Clisson, Constable of France, built a wooden town which was to be transported to England and rebuilt after landing, "in such sort," says Froissart, "that the lords might lodge therein and retire at night, so as to be in safety from sudden awakenings, and sleep in security." Along the Flemish and Dutch coasts, vessels were loaded by torchlight with "hay in casks, biscuits in sacks, onions, peas, beans, barley, oats, candles, gaiters, shoes, boots, spurs, iron, nails, culinary utensils, and all things that can be used for the service of man." The Flemings and Hollanders demanded instant payment and good prices. "If you want us and our service," they said, "pay us on the nail; otherwise we will be neutral."

THE PIG BROTHER AND OTHER FABLES AND STORIES A SUPPLEMENTARY READER FOR THE FOURTH SCHOOL YEAR BY LAURA E. RICHARDSAUTHOR OF “THE GOLDEN WINDOWS,” “THE SILVER CROWN,” “IN MY NURSERY,” “THE JOYOUS STORY OF TOTO,” ETC., ETC.ILLUSTRATEDThere was once a child who was untidy. He left his books on the floor, and his muddy shoes on the table; he put his fingers in the jam-pots, and spilled ink on his best pinafore; there was really no end to his untidiness.One day the Tidy Angel came into his nursery.“This will never do!” said the Angel. “This is really shocking. You must go out and stay with your brother while I set things to rights here.”“I have no brother!” said the child.“Yes, you have!” said the Angel. “You may not know him, but he will know you. Go out in the garden and watch for him, and he will soon come.”“I don’t know what you mean!” said the child; but he went out into the garden and waited.Presently a squirrel came along, whisking his tail.“Are you my brother?” asked the child.The squirrel looked him over carefully.“Well, I should hope not!” he said. “My fur is neat and smooth, my nest is handsomely made, and in perfect order, and my young ones are properly brought up. Why do you insult me by asking such a question?”He whisked off, and the child waited.Presently a wren came hopping by.“Are you my brother?” asked the child.CONTENTSThe Pig BrotherThe Golden WindowsThe Coming of the KingSwing SongThe Great FeastThe Owl and the Eel and the Warming-panThe Wheat FieldAbout AngelsThe Apron StringThe ShadowThe Sailor Man“Go” and “Come”Child’s PlayLittle John BottlejohnA FortuneThe StarsButtercup GoldThe Patient CatAlice’s SupperThe Quacky DuckAt the Little Boy’s HomeNew YearJacky FrostThe Cake“Oh, Dear!”The Useful CoalSong of the Little WindsThe Three RemarksHokey PokeyThe Tangled SkeinA Song for HalFor You and MeThe Burning HouseThe Naughty CometDay Dreams

While the name of “The Angel of the Crimea” is a household word, the precise nature and scope of her work, and the difficulties and discouragement under which it was accomplished, are unknown to many children of the present generation. All this is here beautifully and completely related by a famous writer whose own father was in part responsible for confirming Miss Nightingale in her determination to devote her life to nursing. “Written in a simple, pleasing way and will interest children…Florence Nightingale’s work during the Crimean War was wonderful, but her influence and the work she has been enabled to do confined to her room are even more so. To her we are indebted for the first training school for nurses, which has revolutionized the treatment of the sick.” -New-York Observer "It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm." Originally published in 1909, this is the inspiring story of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the founder of the modern nursing profession. British soldiers who were wounded in the Crimean War (the 1853–56 war between Russia and an alliance of Great Britain, France, Sardinia, and Turkey) called her "The Lady with the Lamp" when she walked the halls of their hospital at night. Facing unspeakable filth and disorganization, she and her staff of nurses cared for thousands of sick and wounded soldiers, earning their undying gratitude. Suitable for ages 11 and up. CONTENTS I. How Florence Got Her Name—Her Three Homes II. Little Florence III. The Squire's Daughter IV. Looking Out V. Waiting for the Call VI. The Trumpet Call VII. The Response VIII. Scutari IX. The Barrack Hospital X. The Lady-in-Chief XI. The Lady with the Lamp XII. Winter XIII. Miss Nightingale Under Fire XIV. The Close of the War XV. The Tasks of Peace Endnotes

One evening, some time after the great Crimean War of 1854-55, a company of military and naval officers met at dinner in London. They were talking over the war, as soldiers and sailors love to do, and somebody said: "Who, of all the workers in the Crimea, will be longest...... Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC ( 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.She came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organised the tending to wounded soldiers.She gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.Some recent commentators have asserted Nightingale's achievements in the Crimean War were exaggerated by the media at the time, to satisfy the public's need for a hero. Nevertheless, critics agree on the decisive importance of her follow-up achievements in professionalising nursing roles for women. In 1860, Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. In recognition of her pioneering work in nursing, the Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses, and the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international distinction a nurse can achieve, were named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday. Her social reforms include improving healthcare for all sections of British society, advocating better hunger relief in India, helping to abolish prostitution laws that were over-harsh to women, and expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce.Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical knowledge. Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could easily be understood by those with poor literary skills. She also helped popularise the graphical presentation of statistical data. Much of her writing, including her extensive work on religion and mysticism, has only been published posthumously. "Laura Richards" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Laura Richard or Laura Richardson. Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 – January 14, 1943) was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse "Eletelephony", which is adapted into an animated segment (Vowel Letter Poem: E - Elephant) produced by Jeff Hale, and his animation studio, Imagination, Inc., for the television show Sesame Street.

Fun and Challenging Mazes for Kids (4-6, 6-8) is packed with mazes to challenge, entertain and stimulate your kids. These mazes can help improve fine motor skills, visual perceptual skills and problem-solving skills. Various types, themes, and shapes ensure your child won't get bored. This book of mazes includes mazes in a variety of difficulty levels from simple to more advanced. This maze book is sure to get kids thinking!About this Amazing Maze Activity Book for Kids:• This book contains mazes for kids ages 4-8.• One set consists of maze books for kids 4-6.• The other comprises mazes books for kids 6-8.• Over 40 maze and labyrinth challenge for Kids to solve.• This maze book helps to strengthen logical and analytical capabilities from a very young age.

Step by step, and all unconsciously, Florence Nightingale had been training her hand and eye to follow the dictates of her keen mind and loving heart. Now, grown a young woman, she began to think seriously how she should apply this training. What should she do with her life? Should she go on like her friends, in the quiet pleasant ways of country life? The squire's daughter was busy enough, surely. Every hour of the day was full of useful, kindly work, of happy, healthy play; should she be content with this? Her heart told her that she was not content. In her friendly visiting among the sick poor she had seen much misery and suffering, far more than she and all the other kindly ladies could attempt to relieve. She felt that something more was needed; she began to look around to see what was being done in the larger world.It was about this time that she met Elizabeth Fry, the noble and beautiful friend of the prisoner. Mrs. Fry was then an elderly woman, with all the glory of her saintly life shining about her; Florence Nightingale an earnest and thoughtful girl of perhaps eighteen or twenty. It is pleasant to think of that meeting. I do not know what words passed between them, but I can almost see them together, the beautiful stately woman in her Quaker dress, the slender girl with her quiet face and earnest eyes; can almost hear the young voice, questioning, eager and ardent; the elder answering, grave and sedate, words full of weight and wisdom, of sweetness and tenderness. This interview was one of the great moments of Florence Nightingale's early life.

The book includes 36 short stories for children. Some of the stories are in the form of short poems. Some of the stories include: The Pig Brother, The Coming of the King, About Angels, A Fortune, A Patient Cat, Alice’s Supper, Hockey Pokey, The Naughty Comet, The Shadow, and many more. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories.

Florence Nightingale the Angel of the CrimeaLaura E. Richards, children's author, biographies, poetry, and others (1850-1943)This ebook presents «Florence Nightingale the Angel of the Crimea», from Laura E. Richards. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.Table of Contents-01- About this book-02- HOW FLORENCE GOT HER NAME-03- LITTLE FLORENCE-04- THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER-05- LOOKING OUT-06- WAITING FOR THE CALL-07- THE TRUMPET CALL-08- THE RESPONSE-09- SCUTARI-10- THE BARRACK HOSPITAL-11- THE LADY-IN-CHIEF-12- THE LADY WITH THE LAMP-13- WINTER-14- MISS NIGHTINGALE UNDER FIRE-15- THE CLOSE OF THE WAR-16- THE TASKS OF PEACE-17- FOOTNOTES

As Joseph was a-walking,He heard an angel sing,"This night shall be the birthnightOf Christ our heavenly King."His birth-bed shall be neitherIn housen nor in hall,Nor in the place of paradise,But in the oxen's stall."He neither shall be rockèdIn silver nor in gold,But in the wooden mangerThat lieth in the mold."He neither shall be washenWith white wine nor with red,But with the fair spring waterThat on you shall be shed.

In the fourth year of the Great War (1918), the sufferings of France, the immemorial battlefield of nations, were in all our hearts. We heard from time to time that France was "bled white"; that she had been injured past recovery; that she was dying. Students of History know better than this. France does not die. She bleeds; yes! she has bled, and stanched her wounds and gone gloriously on, and bled again, since the days when Gaul and Iberian, Kymrian and Phoenician, Hun and Goth, raged and fought to and fro over the patient fields of the "pleasant land." Ask Caesar and Vercingetorix, Attila and Theodoric, Clovis and Charles the Hammer, if France can die, and hear their shadowy laughter! Wave after wave, sea upon sea, of blood and carnage, sweep over her; she remains imperishable. The sun of her day of glory never sets. Her darkest day, perhaps, was that against which her brightest flower shines white. In telling, however briefly, the story of Joan the Maid, it is necessary to call back that day, in some ways so like our own; to see what was[Pg 4] the soil from which that flower sprang in all its radiant purity.

This book is an illustrated version of the original The Pig Brother by Laura E. Richards. “All day long the little boy worked hard, in field and barn and shed, for his people were poor farmers, and could not pay a workman; but at sunset there came an hour that was all his own, for his father had given it to him. Then the boy would go up to the top of a hill and look across at another hill that rose some miles away. On this far hill stood a house with windows of clear gold and diamonds. They shone and blazed so that it made the boy wink to look at them: but after a while the people in the house put up shutters, as it seemed, and then it looked like any common farmhouse. The boy supposed they did this because it was supper-time; and then he would go into the house and have his supper of bread and milk, and so to bed.”