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033 – Richard Couer de Lion

032 – Conquest of Ireland

031 – Thomas a Becket

030 – Gilbert and Rohesia

029 – The Story of King Stephan

028 – The Story of the White Ship

027 – William the Red

026 – Death of the King

025 – William the Conqueror

024 – The Battle of Hastings

023 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge

022 – Harold

I finished cataloging the second half of Our Island Story, which Jim and I read as a duet, each of us taking every other chapter. Here it is!

Our Island Story, part 2

And now I need a new solo project to work on and I’m open to suggestions. Here are my criteria:

• The book must be in the public domain (published before 1923 in the US)
• The book must be children’s literature
• No Oz (I’m tired of Oz)
• No collections of fairy tales
• Nothing really “cute” (no Raggedy Ann, for instance). No Happy Rabbit’s Adventures in Candyland.

I’ve done a lot of girl books (Heidi, etc.) and I’d love to do a boy book. Something adventuresome? Please post if you have a book meeting these critera that you’d like to hear!

Any opinions about Kim, by Rudyard Kipling?  I’ve never read it but I love the Just So Stories (which are also tempting).

021 – Edward the Confessor

020 – Canute and the Waves

019 – How Edmund Ironside Fought for the Crown

018 – Ethelred the Unready

017 – More About Alfred the Great

Our Island Story, chapter 16:

King Alfred in the Cowherd’s Cottage

Oops. Let’s catch up, shall we? :)

Our Island Story, chapters 6 – 15:

The Last of the Romans
The Story of St. Alban
Vortigern and King Constans
The Coming of Hengist and Horsa
Hengist’s Treachery
How the Giant’s Dance was Brought to Britain
The Coming of Arthur
The Founding of the Round Table
Gregory and the Pretty Children
How King Alfred Learned to Read
(though there’s really no need to depend on my memory… you can get the entire first half of the book by following this link: Our Island Story, Part 1)