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Table of Contents
of the Children's Book CD
This Children's Book CD,with 1856 classic children's
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About Children's Books
Banbury Chap Books and Nursery Toy Books by T. & J. Bewick et al.
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery by Rosalie Halsey
A Mother's List of Books for Children, compiled by Gertrude Weld Arnold
A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura Kready
Advice and How-to
The Boy Mechanic, volume 1, 700 things for boys to do
in .pdf, to show the illustrations
plain text version
Camping for Boys by H.W. Gibson, 1913
Carpentry for Boys by J.S. Zerbe
Gardening and Farming by Ellen Eddy Show, 1911
Healthful Sports for Boys by Alfred Rochefort
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls In School and Out by Annie H.
Ryder
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies
On the Trail, an outdoor book for girls by Lina Beard and Adelia Belle
Beard
Say Fellows, 50 practical talks with boys on life's big issues by Wade
Smith
School, Church and Home Games by George Draper
Things to Make by Archibald Williams
in .pdf format to show the llustrations
plain text version
Anonymous
Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey
The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
The Apple Dumpling and Other Stories
Aunt Harding's Keepsakes, revised by Daniel Kidder, 1851
Beauty and the Beast
The Cat and Mouse (Persian Fairy Tales)
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book
A Child's New Story Book or Tales and Dialogues for Little Folks, 1850
Cinderella, 1855
The Courtship and Marriage and Pic-Nic Dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
Dame Duck's Lecture: First Lecture on Education (verse)
The Doll and Her Friends
The Fortunate Foundlings
The Fox and the Geese and the Wonderful History of Henny-Penny
Gems of Poetry for Girls and Boys, 1850
The Good Shepherd, a Life of Christ for Children
Goody Two-Shoes, 1766
Histoire du Celebre Pierrot (in French), 1885
The History of Insects, 1813
The House that Jack Built
Hurrah for New England
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage
Little Alice's Palace
The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates
Mother Goose
Mother Stories from the New Testament
Mother Stories from the Old Testament
No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey, 1851
Notable Women of Olden Time, 1852
The Only Mother Goose Melodies (short)
Pathfinder
Punky Dunk and the Gold Fish
Punky Dunk and the Mouse
Punky Dunk and the Spotted Pup
The Real Mother Goose
Song of Sixpence
Tiger and Tom and Other Stories
Whig Against Tory: or the Military Adventures of a Shoemaker, 1851
Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes (short)
Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser
Anthologies, Collections, and General
The Best Nonsense Verses, chosen by Josephine Dodge Daskam
Big People and Little People of Other Lands by Edward Shaw, 1900
The Book of Enterprise and Adventure, 1851
Celtic Tales Told to Children by Louey Chisolm
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Tales by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Edward
Everett Hale
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: a Reader for the Fourth Grade by
Augusta Stevenson, 1908
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book 2 by Augusta Stevenson
The Children's Hour: Stories from the Classics, selected by Eva Tappan
volume 3
volume 5
Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories edited by Watty
Piper, 1922
The Children of France by Ruth Royce
The Children's Six Minutes by Bruce Wright, 1922
The Child's World: Third Reader by Hetty Browne, Sarah Willer, and W.K.
Tate
Christmas in Legend and Story, compiled by Elva S. Smith
Classic Myths retold by Mary Catherine Judd
Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Deccan Nursery Tales or Fairy Tales of the South [of India] by C.A. Kincaid,
1914
Doctor Scudder's Tales for Young REaders aobut the Heathen, 1849
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis
English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights by E. Dixon
Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Famous Stories Every Child Sould Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy, edited by Loan Marshall
Favorite Fairy Tales, arranged by Logan Marshall
Favorite Fables by Harrison Weir
Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Rev. Howard Chidley, 1914
50 Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin
Folk Tales Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Folk Lore and Legends: North American Indian
Folk Lore and Legends: Scotland
Folk Tales from the Russian, rtold by Vera de Blumenthal
Four Famous American Writers (Irving, Poe, Lowell, and Taylor) by Sherwin
Cody
Four Great Americans (Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln) by James
Baldwin
Gems Gathered in Haste [for Sunday Schools]
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know edited by Asa Don Dickerson
Grammar School Literature, volume 4, by William Elson and Christine Keck
Half-Hours with Great Story Tellers
Grey Dolphin by_Richard Harris Barham_
Moses, the Sassy by Artemus Ward_
Mr. Columbus Coriander's Gorilla by Max Adeler
The Fate of Young Chubb by Max Adeler
Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens
The Enthusiast in Anatomy by John Oxenford
The Light Princess by George Macdonald
Legend of the Litter Weaver by Samuel Lover_
Hawaiian Folk Tales
Holiday Stories for Young People edited by Margaret Sangster
Hymns, Songs, and Fables for Young People by Eliza Lee Follen
A Jolly Jingle-Book, compiled by Laura Chandler
Journeys through Bookland by Charles Sylvester
volume 2
volume 3
volume 4
volume 5
volume 6
volume 10
The Junior Classics edited by William Patten
volume 1 -- Fairy and Wonder
volume 4 -- Heroes and Heroism of Chivalry
volume 5 -- Stories that Never Grow Old
volume 6 -- Old-Fashioned Tales
volume 7 -- Stories of Courage and Heroism
volume 8 -- Animal and Nature Stories
A Kindergarten Story Book by Jane Hoxie
The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls, 1910
The Laughing Prince, a book of Jugoslav fairy tales, retold by Parker Fillmore
Legend Land
volume 1
volume 2
Legends Every Child Should Know
Lists of Stories and Programs of Story Hours compiled byt he staff of the
Children's Dept., St. Louis Public Library, 1921
Little Folded Hands, Prayers for Children
Little Stories for Little Children
Lyra Heroica, a book of verse for boys, selected by William Ernest Henley
Mamma's Stories About Birds
Music Talks with Children by Thomas Tappen, 1898
My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales edited by Captain Edric Vredenburg
Myths and Legendary Heroes edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Myths that Every Child Should Know edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Narrative and Lyric Poems for Use in the Lower School edited by O.J. Stevenson,
1912
The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories for Children, 1903
Old Greek Folk Tales told anew by Josephine Preston Peabody, 1897
Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin
The Ontario Readers Third Book
The Ontario Readers Fourth Book
Parables of the Saviour
Poems Every Child Should Know edited by Mary Burt
Rock a Bye Library
Roumanian Fairy Tales, collected by Mite Kermnitz
Russian Fairy Tales
Stories for the Young by Hannah More et al.
Stories of Childhood
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston
Stories of Ships and the Sea edited by E. Haldeman-Julius
Stories to Tell Children by Sara Cone Bryant
Stories Worth Reading, 1913
Stories from the Ballads
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children
Story Hour Readers Book Three by Ida Cob and Alice Christie
Story Hour Readings, Seventh Year by E. C. Hartwell
Tame Animals
Tell Me Another Story, The Book of Story Programs by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Ten American Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Thrilling Stories of the Ocean by Marmaduke Park, 1852
Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer, compiled by S.B. Shaw
Types of Children's Literature: A Collection of the World's Best Literature
for Children, Edited by Walter Barnes
Wee Ones' Bible Stories
Welsh Fairy Tales edited by P.H. Emerson
Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis, 1921
Welsh Folk-Lore, collected by Elias Owen
The Wise Mamma Goose by Charlotte B. Herb
Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky edited by Edward Singleton Holden
The Wonder Book of Bible Stories edited by Logan Marshall
Periodicals
Chaterbox
1905
Stories of Natural History 1880
Dew Drops
Feb. 15, 1914
Feb. 22, 1914
March 1, 1914
March 8, 1914
April 12, 1914
April 19, 1914
April 26, 1914
May 3, 1914
August 23, 1914
Empire Annual for Girls
1911
The Girl's Own Paper
Oct. 2, 1886
Oct. 16, 1886
Oct. 23, 1886
Oct. 30, 1886
Nov. 6, 1886
Golden Days for Boys and Girls
Jan. 3, 1891
Nov. 28, 1891
The Great Round World
#15 Feb. 18, 1897
#16 Feb. 25, 1897
#17 March 4, 1897
#18 March 11, 1897
#19 March 18, 1897
#20 March 25, 1897
#21 April 1, 1897
#22 April 8, 1897
#23 April 15, 1897
#24 April 22, 1897
#25 April 29, 1897
#26 May 6, 1897
#27 May 13, 1897
#28 May 20, 1897
#29 May 27, 1897
#30 June 3, 1897
#31 June 10, 1897
#32 June 17, 1897
#33 June 24, 1897
#34 July 1, 1897
#36 July 15, 1897
#38 July 29, 1897
#39 Aug. 5, 1897
#40 Aug. 12, 1897
#41 Aug. 19, 1897
#42 Aug. 26, 1897
#44 Sept. 9, 1897
#46 Sept. 23, 1897
#47 Sept. 30, 1897
#48 Oct. 7, 1897
#49 Oct. 14, 1897
#50 Oct. 21, 1897
#51 Oct. 28, 1897
#52 Nov. 4, 1897
#53 Nov. 11, 1897
#54 Nov. 18, 1897
#55 Nov. 25, 1897
#57 Dec. 9, 18997
#58 Dec. 16, 1897
#59 Dec. 23, 1897
#60 Dec. 30, 1897
#65 Feb. 3, 1898
#70 March 10, 1898
#71 March 17, 1898
#83 June 9, 1898
#84 June 16, 1898
Mrs. Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters
volume 3, 1852
The Nursery
April 1875
May 1875
July 1875
Oct. 1875
Nov. 1875
Jan. 1876
Aug. 1880
Sept. 1880
St. Nicholas
Nov. 1877
Dec. 1877
Jan. 1878
Feb. 1878
March 1878
May 1878
June 1878
Sept. 1878
Oct. 1878
Jan. 1881
Youth's Companion
March 13, 1879
Series with more than one author
Boy Allies
The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders by Clair Hayes
Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign by Clair Hayes, 1916
The Boy Allies at Liege by Clair Hayes, 1915
Boy Allies at Verdun by Clair Hayes, 1917
The Boy Allies in Great Peril by Clair Hayes, 1916
The Boy Allies in the Trenches by Clair Hayes, 1915
Boy Allies on the Firing Line by Clair Hayes, 1915
Boy Allies Under the Sea by Robert Drake, 1916
Boy Allies with Victorious Fleets by Robert Drake, 1919
The Boy Allies under Two Flags by Robert Drake
The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Robert Drake
The Boy Allies at Jutland or the Greatest Naval Battle of History by Robert
Drake
Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by John Blaine
The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island by Herbert Carter
The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire by Herbert Carter
The Boy Scout Aviators by George Durston
TheBoy Scouts in Front of Warsaw by George Durston
The Boy Scouts on the Trail by George Durston
The Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns by Archibald Fletcher
Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds by Major Archibald Lee Fletcher
The Boy Scouts in Russia by Captain John Blaine
Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by Lieutenant Howard Payson
Boy Scouts in an Airship by S. Harvey Ralphson
The Boy Scout Camera Club by G. Harvey Ralphson
The Boy Scouts in a Submarine by Harvey Ralphson
The Boy Scouts on a Long Hike by Archibald Lee Fletcher
Boy Scouts on Motorcycles by G. Harvey Ralphson
Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal by G. Harvey Ralphson
Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay by G. Harvey Ralphson
Boy Scouts in the Philippines by G. Harvey Ralphson
The Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by G. Harvey Ralphson, 1915
The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty by Robert Shaler
The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players by Robert Shaler
The Boy Scouts of the Flying Corps by Robert Shaler
Boy Scouts of the Air or Lost Island by Gordon Stewart
Radio Boys
Radio Boys' First Wireless by Allen Chapman
Radio Boys Cronies by Wayne Whipple
Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by J.W. Duffield
The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border by Gerald Breckenridge
Art
Pictures Every Child Should Know, by Dolores Bacon, a selection of the
World's Art Masterpieces for Young People, illustrated with black and white
versions of great paintings and including biographies of the artists
Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman
Eleanor Abbott
Little Eve Edgarton
Molly Make-Believe
Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs
Jacob Abbott
Georgie
Jonas on a Farm in Winter
Rollo at Play
Rollo in the Woods
Rollo in Holland
Rollo in London
Rollo in Naples
Rollo in Paris
Rollo in Switzerland
Rollo on the Atlantic
Rollo on the Rhine
Jane Abbott
Red-Robin
John Abbott
The Adventures of Chevalier de la Salle and his Companioins
David Cockett: His Life and Adventures
Aesop
Fables
Aesop's Fables translated by V.S. Vernon Jones
Aesop for Children
Aesop in Rhyme by Marmaduke Park
Louisa Mae Alcott
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
Eight Cousins
Flower Fables
A Garland for Girls
Hospital Sketches
Jack and Jill
Jo's Boys
Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories, 1882
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
Little Women
Marjorie's Three Gifts (short story)
A Modern Cinderella
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened
An Old-Fashioned Girl
On Picket Duty and Other Tales
Rose in Bloom (sequel to Eight Cousins)
Under the Lilacs
Janet Aldridge
The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat, 1913
The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas
The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea
The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills
Captain Quincy Allen
The Outdoor Chums, 1911
Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point
The Outdoor Chums After Big Game
Outdoor Chums on the Gulf
Samuel Allison
An American Robinson Crusoe
Hans Christian Andersen
A Danish Romance
Fairy Tales
The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales
Pictures of Sweden
Stories from Hans Andersen
The True Story of My Life
Elizabeth Anderson
The Goblin's Christmas
Jane Andrews
The Seven Little Sisters
Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children by Jane Andrews
Honor Appleton
Dumpy Proverbs
Victor Appleton (pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate)
The Moving Picture Boys at Panama or Stirring Adventures Along the Great
Canal, 1915
Moving Picture Boys on the War Front
Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters
Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
Tom Swift and His Air Glider
Tom Swift and His Air Scout
Tom Swift and His Airship
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel
Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout
Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon
Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight
Tom Swift and His Motor Boat
Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle
Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
Tom Swift and His Undersea Search
Tom Swift and His War Tank
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message
Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera
Tom Swift and the Diamond Makers
Tom Swift in Captivity
Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice
Tom Swift in the City of Gold
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
Jean Archer
The Adventures of Samuel and Selina
Ernest Aris
Wee Peter Pug
T.S. Arthur
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures, 1853
Louis Arundel
Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise
Josephine Daskam Bacon
While Caroline Was Growing
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Young Knights of the Empire
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877-1949) brief bio at Wikipedia
The Tale of Benny Badger
The Tale of Betsy Butterfly
The Tale of Bobby Bobolink
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee
The Tale of Cuffy Bear
The Tale of Old Mr. Crow, 1917
The Tale of Brownie Beaver
The Tale of Daddy Longlegs
The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse
The Tale of Ferdinand Frog
The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
The Tale of Grandfather Mole
The Tale of Grumpy Weasel
The Tale of Grunty Pig
The Tale of Henrietta Hen
The Tale of Jasper Jay
The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit
The Tale of Major Monkey
The Tale of Kiddie Katydid
The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat
The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug
The Tale of Muley Cow
The Tale of Nimble Deer
The Tale of Old Mr. Crow
The Tale of Peter Mink
The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels
The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk
The Tale of Snowball Lamb
The Tale of Solomon Owl
The Tale of Timothy Turtle
The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot
Temple Bailey
Contrary Mary
Glory of Youth
Judy
The Tin Soldier
The Trumpeter Swan
Willard Baker
Boy Ranchers on the Trail
Boy Ranchers Among the Indians
Mrs. Woods Baker
Little Tora
May Baldwin
Sarah's School Friend
R.M. Ballantyne
Away in the Wilderness
The Battery and the Boiler
Battles with the Sea
The Big Otter
Black Ivory
Blue Lights
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
Charlie to the Rescue
The Coral Island
The Coxswain's Bride
The Crew of the Water Wagtail
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
Digging for Gold
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished
Erling the Bold
Fighting the Whales
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
Fort Desolation
The Garret and the Garden
The Giant of the North
The Golden Dream
The Gorilla Hunters
The Hot Swamp
Hudson Bay
Hunted and Harried
Hunting the Lions
In the Track of the Troops
The Iron Horse
The Island King
Jarwin and Cuffy
Jeff Benson
Life in the Red Brigade
The Life of a Ship
The Lighthouse
The Lonely Island
The Madman and the Pirate
Man on the Ocean
Martin Rattler
The Middy and the Moors
My Doggie and I
The Norsemen in the West
Ocean and Its Wonders
Philosopher Jack
Pioneers
The Pirate City
Red Eric
The Red Man's Revenge
Red Rooney
Rivers of Ice
The Rover of the Andes
The Settler and the Savage
Shifting Winds
Silver Lake
Six Months on the Cape
Twice Bought
Ungava
Up in the Clouds
The Walrus Hunters
The World of Ice
The Young Fur Traders
The Young Trawler
Honore de Balzac
Folk Tales of Napoleon
Helen Bannerman
The Story of Little Black Mingo (short story)
The Story of Little Black Sambo (short story)
Ralph Henry Barbour
The Adventure Club Afloat, 1917
Behind the Line: a Story of College Life and Football
The Half-Back
Left Tackle Thayer, 1915
Evelyn Snead Barnett
Jerry's Reward
Richard Barnum
Mappo, the Merry Monkey, 1915
Nero the Circus Lion
Squinty the Comical Pig
Tum Tum the Jolly Elephant
Vance Barnum
Frank and Andy Afloat
Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater or the Most Dangerous Performance on Record,
1916
Sara Ware Bassett
Steve and the Steam Engine
Clara Doris Bates
On the Tree Top
Captain Gordon Bates
The Khaki Boys Over the Top, 1919
(Lyman) Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Oz books
Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
The Emerald City of Oz
Glinda of Oz
The Lost Princess of Oz
The Magic of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz
The Master Key
Mother Goose in Prose
Ozma of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Rinkitink in Oz
The Road to Oz
The Scarecrow of Oz
Tik-Tok of Oz
The Tin Woodman of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Writing under the pseudonym Edith Van Dyne:
Aunt Jane's Nieces, 1906
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville, 1908
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society, 1910
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation, 1912
Aunt Jane's Nieces out West, 1914
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work, 1903
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
Mary Louise
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
Mary Louise in the Country
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
Other books
American Fairy Tales
The Enchanted Island of Yew
Kidnapped Santa Claus (story)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
The Sea Fairies
Sky Island
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
Charles Amory Beach
Air Service Boys in the Big Battle
Air Service Boys over the Atlantic or the Longest Flight on Record, 1920
Dan Beard
The Black Wolf Pack
Grace Beaumont
Aunt Judith, The Story of a Loving Wife
Charles Bennett
The Frog Who Would a Wooing Go
Irene Benson
Ethel Hollisten's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl, 1912
How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl
Caorline French Benton
A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl, 1905
Henry Beston
The Firelight Fairy Book
Clifton Bingham
The Animals' Rebellion
Mary Frances Blaisdell
Boy Blue and His Friends (with Ella Austin Blaisdell)
Bunny Rabbit's Diary
Captain John Blaine
The Boy Scouts in Russia
Amy Blanchard
A Sweet Little Maid
Little Maid Marian
A. Russell Bond
The Scientific American Boy
Captain Ralph Bonehill
The Boy Land Boomer
Four Boy Hunters
Guns and Snowshoes
Out with Gun and Camera
Young Hunters of the Lake
Richard Bonner
The Boy Inventor's Radio-Telephone
Elisabeth Bonsall
The Book of the Cat
Waldemar Bonsels
The Adventures of Maya the Bee
Silas Boone
Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys
Cyrus Townsend Brady
For Love of Country
Edith Gilman Brewster
Some Three Hundred Years Ago
William Perry Brown
Ralph Granger's Fortunes
L. Leslie Brooke
The Golden Goose Book
Amy Brooks
Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore
Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times, 1908
Princess Polly's Gay Winter
Randy and Her Friends
Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Angel
Ruth Alberta Brown
Tabitha's Vacation
Robert Browning
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Sara Cone Bryant
How to Tell Stories to Children
Stories to Tell Children
Thomas Bulfinch
The Age of Chivalry [King Arthur and his knights]
Legends of Charlemagne
Mythology: The Age of Fable
Selina Bunbury
Fanny, the Flower-Girl
E.R. Burden
Hollowmell
Thornton Burgess (1874-1965) brief bio at Wikipedia
The Adventures of Buster Bear
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver
The Adventures of Prickly Porky
Adventures of Old Mr. Toad, 1920
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum
Bowser the Hound
Lightfoot the Deer
Mother West Wind "How" Stories
Mother West Wind "Where" Stories
Mother West Wind "Why" Stories
Mother West Wind's Children
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
Cyril Burleigh
The Hilltop Boys on the River
The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island
Alice Hale Burnett
A Day at the County Fair
Halloween at Merryvale
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Dawn of a To-Morrow
Emily Fox-Seton, 1901
A Fair Barbarian
The Head of the House of Coombe
His Grace of Osmonde
In the Closed Room
A Lady of Quality
The Land of the Blue Flower (short story)
The Little Hunchback Zia (short story)
A Little Princess
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Saint Elizabth and Other Stories
The Lost Prince
Racketty-Packetty House
Robin
My Robin (short story)
Sara Crewe
The Secret Garden
The Shuttle
T. Tembarom
The White People
Margaret Burnham
The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings
The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly, 1912
The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise, 1911
Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core
The Beasts of Tarzan
The Chessmen of Mars
The Efficiency Expert
The Gods of Mars
Jungle Tales
The Land that Time Forgot
The Lost Continent
The Mucker
The Oakdale Affair
Out of Time's Abyss
The People that Time Forgot
A Princess of Mars
The Return of Tarzan
The Son of Tarzan
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan the Terrible
Tarzan the Untamed
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
The Warlord of Mars
Ellis Parker Butler
The Thin Santa Claus
Hezekiah Buttersworth
Little-Sky High or the Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang
Donn Byrne
The Wind Bloweth
William Canton
A Child's Book of Saints
Annie Roe Carr
Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays
Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland retold in words of one syllable by Mrs.
J.C. Gorham
The Game of Logic
The Hunting of the Snark (poem)
Pantasmagoria and Other Poems
Sylvie and Bruno
Through the Looking Glass
About Lewis Carroll
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1898
Charles Carryl
Davy and the Goblin, or What Followed Reading Alice's Adventurs in Wonderland
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Grimm Tales Made Gay
Captain James Carson
The Saddle Boys in the Rockies
The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon
Harry Castlemon
Frank on a Gun-Boat, 1892
The Boy Trapper
Amy D.V. Chalmers
Madge Morton's Secret
Katharine Chandler
The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (short)
Allen Chapman
Bart Stirling's Road to Success
Fred Fenton on the Crew
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Pilgrims, Chaucer retold for children by M. Sturt
Cherubini
Pinocchio in Africa
Alfred Church
The Story of the Odyssey
Margaret Bruce Clarke
Hunter's Marjory
The Story of Troy
Harry Collingwood
The Congo Rovers
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
Dick Maitland
For Treasure Bound
Harry Escombe
Log of a Privateeersman
Log of the Flying Fish
Middy in Command
Middy of the Slave Squadron
Missing Merchantman
Overdue
Pirate Island
Pirate of the Caribbees
The Rover's Secret
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
Under the Chilean Flag
Under the Meteor Flag
C. Collodi [Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini]
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Translated from the Italian by Carol Della
Chiesa)
Pinocchi, the Tale of a Puppet
Padraic Colum
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said
Harriet Comstock
The Place Beyond the Winds
Agnes Ethel Conway and Sir Martin Conway
The Book of Art for Young People, 1909
Susan Coolidge [Sarah Chauncey Woolsey], American (1839-1905)
Clover
What Katy Did
What Katy Did Next
What Katy Did at School
Florence Coombe
Jack of Both Sides
Mary Spring Corning
Miss Elliot's Girls, 1886
David Cory
Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog
The Cruise of the Noah's Ark
Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers
Stephen Angus Cox
The Dare Boys of 1776
Charles Egbert Craddock
The Young Mountaineers
Dinah Craik
The Laurel Bush
Laura Dent Crane
Automobile Girls at Washington, 1913
Walter Crane
The Automobile Girls at Washington
The Frog Prince and Other Stories
Gertrude Crownfield
The Shadow Witch
Mrs. George Cupples
Bluff Crag
Carry's Rose
The Cockatoo's Story
Alice Turner Curtis
A Little Maid of Old Maine
A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia
Phebe Curtiss
Christmas Stories and Legends, compiled by Phebe Curtiss
James Curwood, Canadian (1878-1927)
Back to God's Country and Other Stories
Baree, Son of Kazan [the wolf dog]
The Country Beyond: a Romance of the Wilderness
The Danger Trail, 1910
The Flaming Forest
The Flower of the North
God's Country -- and the Women
The Golden Snare
The Grizzly King: a Romance of the Wild, 1918
The Honor of the Big Snows, 1911
Isobel, a Romance of the Northern Trail
Kazan [the wolf dog], 1914
Nomads of the North: a Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars
Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, 1911
The River's End
The Valley of Silent Men: a Story of the Three River Country
David Cory
Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog
Louise de la Ramee
Bimbi: Stories for Children
Esther Birdsall Darling
Baldy of Nome
Halsey Davidson
Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns
A.J. Dawson
Jan, a Dog and a Romance
Fremont Deering
The Border Boys Across the Frontier
C.J. Dennis
A Book for Kids
W.W. Denslow
Denslow's Mother Goose
Charles Dickens
A Child's History of England
Ten Boys from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Ten Girls from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Louis Dodge
Everychild
Mary Mapes Dodge
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Annie Hamilton Donnell
Three Young Knights
Francis Worcester Doughty, 1850-1917
Bradys and the Girl Smuggler
Captain Alan Douglas
Afloat: or Adventures on Watery Trails
Amanda M. Douglas
The Girls at Mount Morris
A Little Girl in Old Detroit
O. Douglas
Penny Plain
Emma Dowd
Polly and the Princess
Polly of the Hospital Staff
Jennifer Drinkwater
Miss Prudence: a Story of Two Girls' Lives, 1893
James Driscoll
The Brighton Boys int he Radio Service
The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps
The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet
Gertrude P. Dyer
Little Pollie
Elsie Spicer Eells
Fairy Tales from Brazil
Edward Eggleston
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
George Cary Eggleston
Big Brother, a Story of Indian War
Captain Smith or the Boy Scouts of 1814
R. Eivind
Finnish Legends for English Children
Ethel Cook Eliot
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
Edward Ellis (1840-1916)
Adrift in the Wilds or The Advanture of Two Shipwrecked Boys
The Boy Patriot
In Honour's Cause
Through Forest and Fire
Two Boys in Wyoming
Mary Ellis
Dick and His Cat
Alfred Elwes
The Adventures of a Dog
Alice Emerson
Betty Gordon in Washington
Betty Gordon at Boarding School or the Treasure of Indian Chasm, 1921
Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp
Ruth Fielding in Motion Pictures
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island
Ruth Fielding at the War Front
Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies
Douglas English
Wee Tim'rous Beasties
Everett Evelyn-Green
In the Wars of the Roses
Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) brief bio at Wikipedia
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
A Flat Iron for a Farthing
Jackanapes
Peace Egg and Other Tales
Six to Sixteen, a story for girls
Verses for Children
We and the World, Part 1
We and the World, Part 2
About Juiana Horatio Ewing
Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books by Horatia Eden
Howard B. Famous
Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories
Frederick Farrar
St. Winifred's or the World of School
G.E. Farrow
The Jungle Baby
The Mysterious Shin Shira
George Manville Fenn (1831-1909)
The Adventures of Don Lavington
The Bag of Diamonds
Begumbah
The Black Bar
The Black Tor
Blue Jackets
Brave and True Short Stories
Brownsmith's Boy
Bunyip Land
Burr Junior
Charge!
Cormorant Crag
Cutlass and Cudgel
A Dash from Diamond City
The Devon Boys
Dick o' the Fens
Fire Island
First in the Field
Fitz the Fillibuster
Gil the Gunner
Glyn Severn's Schooldays
King o' the Beach
The King's Sons
A Life's Eclipse
The Little Skipper
The Lost Middy
Marcus the Centurion
Mass' George
Menhardoc
Middy and Ensign
Mother Carey's Children
Nat the Naturalist
Nic Revel
The Ocean Cat's Paw
Off to the Wilds
Old Gold
Patience Wins
The Powder Monkey
Quicksilver
The Rajah of Dah
Rob Harlow's Adventures
Sail Ho!
Sappers and Miners
The Silver Canyon
Son Phillip
Steve Young
Syd Belton
!Tention
A Terrrible Coward
Three Boys
To the West
To Win or Die
Trapped by Malays
Weathercock
Will of the Mill
A Young Hero
Young Robin Hood
Yussuf the Guide
Donald Ferguson
The Chums of Scranton High
The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey, 1919
The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path, 1919
The Chums of Scranton High out for the Pennant
Fanny Fern
Little Ferns for Fanny's Little Friends
Ben Field
Exciting Adventure of Mister Robert Robin
Roger T. Finlay
The Wonder Island Boys: Exporing the Island
The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns
The Wonder Island Boys: the Tribesmen
The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands
The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Islands
Martha Finley
Elsie Dinsmore
Elsie's Girlhood
Elsie at Home
Elsie at the World's Fair
Elsie's Children
Elsie's New Relations
Elsie's Vacation and After Events
Elsie's Womanhood
Grandmother Elsie
John Finnemore
Jack Haydon's Quest
Colonel James Fiske
The Belgians to the Front
Percy Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee Harris Adrift
Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp, 1920
Roy Blakeley, Pathfinder
Roy Blakeley's Bee-Line Hike
Tom Slade, Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures
Tom Slade on Mystery Trail
Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch-Bearer
Tom Slade at Black Lake
Tom Slade at Temple Camp
Tom Slade with the Boys over There
Tom Slade's Double Dare
Tom Slade With the Colors
Jessie Graham Flower (?-1931)
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School
Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College
Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among Kentucky Mountains
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods
Francis Channing Woodworth, 1812-1859 (AKA Uncle Frank)
The Diving Bell
Mike Marble
Stories about Animals
Edward Livermore Worcester
Phebe the Blackberry Girl
Barbara Yechton
We Ten
Charlotte Yonge
Young Folk's History of England
Clarence Young
Jack Ranger's Western Trip
The Motor Boys on the Pacific
Egerton Young
Three Boys in the Wild North Land
Winter Adventure of Three Boys
J.S. Zerbe
Carpentry for Boys
Samuel Zwemer
Toopsy-Turvy Land -- Arabia Pictured for Children
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