Fifty Famous People
by James Baldwin Author
A companion volume to "Fifty Famous Stories Retold" by James Baldwin, "Fifty Famous People" introduces children to a variety of men who performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Included are anecdotes about great American statesmen, such as Lincoln and Franklin, as well as kings of long ago-Cyrus the Great, King Alfred, and Robert Bruce, boys who became famous as poets-Longfellow and Caedmon, and others who excelled in the art of painting-Giotto and Benjamin West. Other stories depict orators, scholars, inventors, slaves, and soldiers. Regardless of their fields of endeavour, all the characters portrayed show qualities that make them worthy of being remembered and looked up to as models of behavior.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1599150077
- Print Status
- In Print
- Stories
- 50
- Pages
- 212
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 6th
- Publisher
- Yesterday's Classics
- Written
- 1912
Stories
- 1 Saving the Birds
- 2 Another Bird Story
- 3 Speaking a Piece
- 4 Writing a Composition
- 5 The Whistle
- 6 The Ettrick Shepherd
- 7 The Caliph and the Poet
- 8 Becos! Becos! Becos!
- 9 A Lesson in Humility
- 10 The Midnight Ride
- 11 The Boy and the Wolf
- 12 Another Wolf Story
- 13 The Horseshoe Nails
- 14 The Landlord's Mistake
- 15 A Lesson in Manners
- 16 Going to Sea
- 17 The Shepherd-Boy Painter
- 18 Two Great Painters
- 19 The King and the Bees
- 20 Our First Great Painter
- 21 The Young Scout
- 22 The Lad Who Rode Sidesaddle
- 23 The Whisperers
- 24 How a Prince Learned to Read
- 25 Read, and You Will Know
- 26 The Young Cupbearer
- 27 The Sons of the Caliph
- 28 The Boy and the Robbers
- 29 A Lesson in Justice
- 30 The General and the Fox
- 31 The Bomb
- 32 A Story of Old Rome
- 33 Saved by a Dolphin
- 34 Little Brothers of the Air
- 35 A Clever Slave
- 36 One of Aesop's Fables
- 37 The Dark Day
- 38 The Surly Guest
- 39 The Story of a Great Story
- 40 The King and the Page
- 41 The Hunted King
- 42 Try, Try Again
- 43 Why He Carried the Turkey
- 44 The Paddle-Wheel Boat
- 45 The Caliph and the Gardener
- 46 The Cowherd Who Became a Poet
- 47 The Lover of Men
- 48 The Charcoal Man and the King
- 49 Which Was the King?
- 50 The Golden Tripod
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