What You'll Find Inside
A Feast for the Mind & the Soul
Welcome to the Paideia Collection. Come to the table — what you see today is just the beginning: a curated selection of potent titles and eloquent orations, chosen to nourish mind and heart. With every new addition, the feast multiplies.
I
Pedagogy
7 Titles
Series · 6 Volumes
Charlotte Mason's Home Education Series
One of the giants of homeschool philosophy — all six volumes discussing every aspect of her method. Short lessons, nature study, and living books to foster a lifelong love of learning.
6 Volumes
Book · 1916
A Defence of Classical Education
A compelling case for the enduring value of Greek and Latin — not as relics, but as the surest training for the mind and the most direct path to wisdom, character, and civilized life.
II
American History
15 Titles
Book · 1917
This Country of Ours
A classic narrative history of the United States — from early European exploration to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson — told with vividness and drama for younger readers.
Book · 1917
The Little Book of the Flag
A short, spirited history of the American flag — its origins, its symbolism, and the stories woven into its stars and stripes.
Book · 1898
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies
A rich narrative of each of the original thirteen colonies — their founding, their struggles, and the distinct character each brought to the young republic.
Book · 1899
The Story of the Great Republic
Guerber's history of the United States from the Revolution onward — presidents and pioneers, wars and westward roads — in short chapters built for reading aloud.
Book · 1906
American Hero Stories
Stories of American heroes from 1492 to 1865 — explorers, founders, and leaders whose courage shaped a nation. Brisk, character-driven, and written for young readers.
Coming Soon
Book · 1908
Letters from Colonial Children
Colonial life told through the eyes and voices of children — an intimate, vivid window into everyday life in early America.
Book · 1910
Richard of Jamestown
The Virginia colony told by a boy who was there — Captain Smith, the starving time, and the first hard winters, in the plain voice of someone small enough to be overlooked.
Coming Soon
Book · 1910
Peter of New Amsterdam
An orphaned English boy sails with Peter Minuit to the Dutch colony on Manhattan Island — trading, exploring the wilderness, and watching Old New York take shape.
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Book · 1910
Mary of Plymouth
The Plymouth colony through the eyes of a young Pilgrim girl — the Mayflower’s arrival, the hard first winter, Squanto and Massasoit, and a settlement taking root.
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Book · 1910
Calvert of Maryland
A boy and his father sail from England to join Lord Baltimore’s young colony — the crossing, the Chesapeake, and the founding of St. Mary’s City.
Book · 1910
Ruth of Boston
The Massachusetts Bay Colony through the eyes of ten-year-old Ruth — the crossing, the first meeting house, and a settlement built one winter at a time.
Coming Soon
Book · 1910
Stephen of Philadelphia
A Quaker boy crosses with his family to William Penn’s new colony — cave homes along the Delaware, land cleared and planted, and a planned city rising.
Speech · 1775
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry before the Second Virginia Convention in March 1775 — the case for arming Virginia while there was still time, closing on the words that made the speech famous.
Essays · 1787–88
The Federalist Papers
The eighty-five essays written to urge ratification of the Constitution — the fullest account of the American system of government ever put to paper, from the men who helped frame it.
Compilation · 1215–1796
The Foundations of Liberty
The great charters of liberty gathered into a single listening arc — from Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact through the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, to Washington's Farewell Address.
12 Documents
The Twelve Documents
- Magna Carta (1215, 1297)
- Mayflower Compact (1620)
- Petition of Right (1628)
- Habeas Corpus Act (1679)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Articles of Confederation (1781)
- United States Constitution (1787)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
- United States Bill of Rights (1791)
- Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
III
English Literature
2 Titles
Coming Soon
Book · 1878
Grammar-Land
Grammar taught as a court of law — the parts of speech become characters in a delightful trial, making the rules of language memorable and surprisingly entertaining for young students.
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Book · 1860
The Song of Hiawatha
Longfellow's epic in its insistent trochaic beat, drawn from Ojibwe legend — a poem that asks to be spoken aloud, and rewards it.
IV
Natural History
7 Titles
Series · 6 Short Books
Eyes and No Eyes Nature Collection
Widely regarded as an excellent choice for nature study. Six short books that teach children to truly "see" and appreciate the natural world rather than passively look at it.
6 Books
Coming Soon
Book · 1917
The Story Book of Science
The great French naturalist tells the stories of insects, plants, and the living world to a family gathered around the fire — science as wonder, patience, and careful attention to the smallest creatures.
V
Ancient History
10 Titles
Coming Soon
Series · 4 Volumes
Abbott's Ancient World Biographies
Four gripping biographies of the ancient world's greatest emperors and commanders — told with Abbott's gift for narrative clarity and moral insight, ideal for readers of maturing minds.
4 Volumes
Book · 1907
The Iliad for Boys and Girls
The wrath of Achilles and the fall of Troy retold for younger readers — Church's gift for vivid narrative brings Homer's heroes to life with warmth and immediacy.
Book · 1906
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
Odysseus's long voyage home retold with verve and clarity — gods, monsters, and the sea rendered accessible to every young reader encountering Homer for the first time.
Coming Soon
Book · 1908
The Aeneid for Boys and Girls
The flight from burning Troy, storm and prophecy, and the founding of a people — Virgil's epic retold from the master storyteller, completing the great classical epics for young readers.
Book · 1910
The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Greeks
Plutarch's Greek lives retold for younger readers — Lycurgus, Themistocles, Alexander — the character studies that taught Europe what a life well spent looks like.
Book · 1910
The Children's Plutarch: Tales of the Romans
The Roman half of Plutarch's parallel lives, plainly told — Coriolanus, the Gracchi, Caesar — ambition and duty measured against each other, as Plutarch meant them to be.
Coming Soon
Book · 1914
The Story of Greece
Ancient Hellas for young readers — from Demeter, Athena and Perseus through the Trojan War to Marathon, Thermopylae and the golden age of Athens.
Coming Soon
Book · 1912
The Story of Rome
Rome for young readers, from Romulus and Remus and the seven kings through the heroes of the Republic to the death of Augustus.
Book · 1842
Horatius at the Bridge
Macaulay's ringing ballad of the Roman who held the bridge against an army — the lays of ancient Rome as they were meant to be taken, aloud and at pace.
VI
World History
12 Titles
Series · 6 Volumes
The Story of the World
History told as one continuous, living story — beginning on the shores of the great sea of the ancient world and sweeping across the centuries to the Great War, in six vivid volumes.
6 Volumes
Coming Soon
Series · 4 Volumes
Famous Men
The story of the West told through the lives at its center — from the heroes of Greece and the founders of Rome, through Charlemagne and Joan of Arc, to Washington, Lincoln, and Garibaldi.
4 Volumes
Coming Soon
Book · 1912
A Book of Discovery
The whole history of exploration in one volume — from the earliest recorded journeys to the race for the South Pole, with the map redrawn at every turn.
Book · 1905
Our Island Story
The history of England retold as one grand story — kings and queens, battles and legends, from the earliest days to modern times — told for children with warmth, wonder, and Marshall's rare gift for making the past feel alive.
VII
World Geography
8 Titles
Book · 1909
Peeps at Many Lands: Canada
From Atlantic fishing villages across forest and prairie to the Pacific — lumber camps and wheat fields, snowshoes and the great railway, in a young country of vast distances.
Book · 1908
Peeps at Many Lands: England
A friendly ramble through England itself — village greens and castle walls, cathedral towns and country lanes — the everyday life of the land seen fresh, as a traveller's child would see it.
Book · 1909
Peeps at Many Lands: France
A child's-eye journey through France — market days and vineyards, Paris streets and Breton coasts — the life of the country caught in its small ordinary details.
Book · 1908
Peeps at Many Lands: Iceland
The island of the sagas — geysers and glaciers, ponies and fishing boats, and a hardy people whose stories reach back to the Norse settlers of a thousand years ago.
Book · 1909
Peeps at Many Lands: Ireland
The green island seen through the eyes of one of its own poets — turf fires and holy wells, Dublin streets and western shores, a land where every hill and ruin keeps a story.
Book · 1911
Peeps at Many Lands: Italy
From the canals of Venice to the ruins of Rome — olive groves, mountain villages, and city squares alive with festival, in the land where so much of the West's story began.
Book · 1907
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan
Cherry blossom and paper houses, temple gardens and the snows of Fuji — daily life in old Japan, where courtesy is an art and every season has its festival.
Book · 1913
Peeps at Many Lands: Panama
The isthmus at the moment the canal was being cut — two oceans, one narrow country, and ordinary life going on beside the greatest engineering work of the age.
The Library Is Growing
More Titles on the Way
As our library grows, so will yours. We're actively curating the next additions — from Plutarch's Lives and Aesop's Fables to Henty, Homer, and beyond.
Plutarch's Lives
Aesop's Fables
Pilgrim's Progress
Jacob Abbott
G.A. Henty
Thornton W. Burgess
John Milton
St. Augustine
Alfred Church
Maria Edgeworth
Helene A. Guerber
Sir Walter Scott
More…