Charlotte’s Web – Jacki Kellum Notes

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White Newberry Honor CHARLOTTE’S WEB Copyright@ 1952 by E. B. White Text copyright@ renewed 1980 by E. B. White Illustrations copyright renewed 1980 by Garth Williams Chapter 1 Before Breakfast “WHERE’S Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. “Out…

Looking at Lit Free Online Book Club Titles – 2024 – 2025

June 2024 – The Secret Garden July 2024 – The Artist’s Way August 2024 – Tuck Everlasting September 2024 – Charlotte’s Web October 2024 – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow October 2024 – Something Wicked This Way Comes November 2024 – Mythology December 2024 – The Christmas Carol December 2024 – The Donkey’s Song December…

The Secret Garden Chapter 4

CHAPTER IV MARTHA When she opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had come into her room to light the fire and was kneeling on the hearth-rug raking out the cinders noisily. Mary lay and watched her for a few moments and then began to look about the room. She…

The Secret Garden Chapter 3 – The Theme of Darkness to Light

CHAPTER III ACROSS THE MOOR She slept a long time, and when she awakened Mrs. Medlock had bought a lunchbasket at one of the stations and they had some chicken and cold beef and bread and butter and some hot tea. The rain seemed to be streaming down more heavily than ever and everybody in…

The Secret Garden Chapter 2

CHAPTER II MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY Mary had liked to look at her mother from a distance and she had thought her very pretty, but as she knew very little of her she could scarcely have been expected to love her or to miss her very much when she was gone. She did not miss…

The Secret Garden Chapter 1

THE SECRET GARDEN BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT Copyright, 1911, by Frances Hodgson Burnett Copyright, 1910, 1911, by The Phillips Publishing Co. CHAPTER I THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too….

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

In my opinion, EVERY writer should read Ray Bradbury and Mark Twain. Those two guys seem to have born few resemblances. They lived in different periods of time and they wrote differently, but these two guys were alike in that they are masters of words, and if a writer is not a master of words,…

Darkness Slipped In – Picture Book by Ella Burfoot

Image Credit Macmillan “Daisy was thinking of a game to play When Darkness slipped in at the end of the day. “He came in through the window and spread out on the floor. While Daisy danced and laughed and played then danced around some more. “Pretending that he wasn’t there, he slid along the wall….