Joel Chandler: 50 books

In preparing the pages that follow, the writer has had in view the desirability of familiarizing the youth of Georgia with the salient facts of the State's history in a way that shall make the further study of that history a delight instead of a task. The ground has been gone over before by various...

Once upon a time there lived on a plantation, in the very middle of Middle Georgia, a little girl and a little boy and their negro nurse. The little girl's name was Sweetest Susan. That was the name her mother gave her when she was a baby, and she was so good-tempered that everybody continued to call...

In preparing the pages that follow, the writer has had in view the desirability of familiarizing the youth of Georgia with the salient facts of the State's history in a way that shall make the Further study of that history a delight instead of a task. The ground has been gone over before by various...

Adelaide and I have come to the conclusion that if you can't believe anything at all, not even the things that are as plain as the nose on your face—if you can't enjoy what is put here to be enjoyed—if you are going to turn up your nose at everything we tell you, and deny things that we know to be...

Thus it came about that the lad got both his name and his crutches, for his father insisted on calling him Little Crotchet after that, and he also insisted on sending all the way to Philadelphia for the crutches. They seemed to be a long time in coming, for in those days they had to be brought to Charleston...

This novel was written by the creator of Uncle Remus. It's a happy/sad tale of a young black woman, who, after the slaves were freed, stayed with the people she knew. Written in an almost fairy-tale style, it is captivating and strangely beautifully written. This is one of those books that, after...

The Little Master The Secrets of the Swamp What Chunky Riley saw and heard Between Midnight and Dawn The Hunt begins The Hunt ends Aaron sees the Signal The Happenings of a Night The Upsetting of Mr. Gossett Chunky Riley sees a Queer Sight The Problem that Timoleon presented What the Patrollers saw and heard The Apparition the Fox Hunters saw The Little Master says Good Night