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Trapped by the ice!

Shackleton's amazing Antarctic adventure

by McCurdy, Michael

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, the Endurance,...

Trapped by the Ice!

Shackleton's Amazing Antarctic Adventure

by McCurdy, Michael

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, the Endurance,...

American Fairy Tales

From Rip Van Winkle to the Rootabaga Stories

by Philip, Neil & McCurdy, Michael

Includes works and discussion of Washington Irving, Horace E. Scudder, M.S.B., Frank Stockton, Howard Pyle, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Laura E. Richards...

The Seasons Sewn

A Year in Patchwork

by Paul, Ann Whitford & McCurdy, Michael

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American Tall Tales

by Osborne, Mary Pope & McCurdy, Michael

A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan.

An old-fashioned Thanksgiving

by Alcott, Louisa M. & McCurdy, Michael

Follows the activities of seven children in nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmo...

Hannah's farm

the seasons on an early American homestead

by McCurdy, Michael

As the seasons roll by, all the members of Hannah's family, Grandma, Grandpa, Father, Mother, and little Tobias, engage in activities on their farm in the Berk...

The devils who learned to be good

by McCurdy, Michael

After feeding two starving beggars, an old Russian soldier receives a magical flour sack and deck of playing cards which help him to remove some pesky devils f...

The owl-scatterer

by Norman, Howard A. & McCurdy, Michael

The inhabitants of a small northern Canadian village consider Jake a lazy old man but when their town is overrun with owls only Jake knows how to scatter the b...