Latham, Jean Lee

A biography of Eli Whitney tracing his long legal journey to win rights over his pirated cotton gin and to fulfill his Government contract for ten thousand muskets with interchangable parts.

Adventures of the piratical Elizabethan mariner who contributed enormously to the growth of sixteenth-century English sea power.

About a seafaring boy who later wrote the American Practical Navigator, a book still in use.

After hearing a fairy tale about how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps to break the spell and change him to a handsome prince.

After hearing a fairy tale about how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps to break the spell and change him to a handsome prince.

A story from the Arabian Nights, which tells of a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret hiding place where a band of robbers keep their stolen riches.

A story from the Arabian Nights, which tells of a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret hiding place where a band of robbers keep their stolen riches.