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Children's
Literature Collection
Compiled
from scans of original image rich
children's books. The World Public
Library Children's Literature Collection
is a selected list of the most popular
children's books of all times. We
hope you and your family enjoy the
collection.
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Bird
Children
Author:
Elizabeth Gordon
Description:
These editions of classic children's books from
the beginning of the 20th century feature four-color
paintings and poetry that teach children about
nature.
Language: English
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Black
Beauty
Author:
Anna Sewell, Lisa R. Church
Illustrated by Lucy Corvino
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Fiction
Description:
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful
launch of its children's classic novels (240,000
books in print to date), comes a dazzling new
series: " Classic Starts." The stories
are abridged; the quality is complete. "Classic
Starts" treats the world's beloved tales
(and children) with the respect they deserve--all
at an incomparable price. "Black Beauty
"is the classic horse story, a beautiful
and touching tale told by the title character
himself. Set in Victorian London, it follows
Beauty's life and changing fortunes as he moves
from owner to owner. As the horse encounters
new experiences and new friends who reveal their
own histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating
portrait of how animals were treated during
that era.
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Blue
Beard
Description:
Bluebeard was a wealthy aristocrat, feared because
of his "frightfully ugly" blue beard.
He had been married three times, but no one
knew what had become of his wives. He was therefore
avoided by the local girls. When Bluebeard visited
one of his neighbours and asked to marry one
of her daughters, they were terrified, and each
tried to pass him on to the other. Eventually
he persuaded the younger daughter to marry him,
and after the ceremony she went to live with
him in his château.
Very
shortly after, however, Bluebeard announced
that he had to leave the country for a while;
he gave over all the keys of the chateau to
his new wife, including the key to one small
room that she was forbidden to enter. He then
went away and left the house in her hands. Almost
immediately she was overcome with the desire
to see what the forbidden room held, and finally
her visiting sister convinced her to satisfy
her curiosity and open the room.
However,
the wife immediately discovered the room's horrible
secret: Its floor reeked of blood, and the dead
bodies of her husband's former wives hung on
the walls. Horrified, she locked the door, but
blood had come onto the key which would not
wash off. Bluebeard returned unexpectedly and
immediately knew what his wife had done. In
a blind rage he threatened to behead her on
the spot, and so she locked herself in the highest
tower with her sister. While Bluebeard, sword
in hand, tried to break down the door, the sisters
waited for their two brothers to arrive. At
the last moment, as Bluebeard was about to deliver
the fatal blow, the brothers broke into the
castle, and as he attempted to flee, they killed
him.
He
left no heirs but his wife, who inherited all
his great fortune. She used part of it for a
dowry to marry her sister to the one that loved
her, another part for her brothers' captains
commissions, and the rest to marry a worthy
gentleman who made her forget her ill treatment
by Bluebeard.
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Blue
Fairy Book
Author:
Andrew Lang, Henry
Illustrator: Henry Justice Ford, G. P.
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Nonfiction
Description:
The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in
the series and so it contains some of the best
known tales, taken from a variety of sources:
not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures
by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, the
Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular
traditions. Here in one attractive paperbound
volume - with enlarged print - are Sleeping
Beauty, Rumpelstiltzkin, Beauty and the Beast,
Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Trusty John,
Jack and the Giantkiller, Goldilocks, and many
other favorites that have become an indispensable
part of our culture heritage.
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Fairy Book |
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| Bo-Bo
the Pig Is Good and Bad |
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| Bobbie
Bubbles |
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| Bonny
Bairns |
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Tea Party |
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Bound
to Rise
Author:
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Key words and phrases: granton, asked harry,
contrack, forty dollars, leavitt, asked frank,
pentland, ten dollars, squire, lower village,
walton, horatio alger, pocketbook, harry thought,
hiram, luke harrison, harry walton, hiram walton,
frank heath, benjamin franklin
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Boyhood
in Norway
Author:
Hjalmar Boyesen
Fiction / General
Description:
There had never been a masquerade in Bumlebro,
and there would not have been one now, if it
had not been for the enterprise of young Arctander
and young Norbeck, who had just returned from
the military academy in the capital, and were
anxious to exhibit themselves to the young girls
in their glory.
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| Boys
and Girls from Storyland |
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Bracebridge
Hall (1877)
Author:
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Language: English
Keywords: National characteristics, English
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Buddy
Jim
Author:
Elizabeth Gordon
Illustrator:
John Rae
Publisher: P.F. Volland Co. (1922)
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Jim |
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Cast
Upon the Breakers
Author:
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Literature / Classics / Criticism
Description:
A wonderful change came over Mike Flynn. Until
he met Rodney he seemed quite destitute of ambition.
The ragged and dirty suit which he wore as bootblack
were the best he had. His face and hands generally
bore the marks of his business, and as long
as he made enough to buy three meals a day,
two taken at the Lodging House, with something
over for lodging, and an occasional visit to
a cheap theater, he was satisfied.
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Catriona-
Version 2
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
Library
of Congress Classification: PR
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English
literature
Subject Scotland -- History -- 18th century
-- Fiction
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Catriona
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
Library
of Congress Classification: PR
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Children
Stories
Author:
Charles Dickens
Language:
English
Description:
Charles Dickens, who was born in 1812, is considered
one of the greatest of English novelists. Certainly
he is the most popular. Not only did he have
an important place in nineteenth-century literature,
but he was also an outspoken and influential
critic of society. He wrote fifteen novels as
well as a number of stories and Christmas books.
In lots of these children were important characters.
In his day, no one understood children better
than Dickens, and he was the first writer to
describe what children thought and felt and
to capture the way they spoke. And he was not
afraid to write about the hard and sad lives
that many children led.
In the stories in this book, which have been
retold by Charles Dickens's granddaughter, Mary
Angela Dickens, you will meet some of the children
who appear in the works of Charles Dickens.
There is Oliver Twist, who had many misadventures
after he escaped from the terrible workhouse
where he was born, and David Copperfield, the
hero of Dickens's most popular novel, much of
which records his own experiences. Little Paul
Dombey is the young son of Dombey and Son, and
Amy is the heroine of Little Dorrit.
On these pages, you'll also make the acquaintance
of Tiny Tim, from A Christmas Carol, the fat
boy from The Pickwick Papers, Jenny Wren from
Our Mutual Friend, and the blind little toymaker
from The Cricket on the Hearth, and Little Nell
and the marchioness from The Old Curiosity Shop.
Howard Copping's wonderful paintings and drawings
bring Dickens's fascinating characters, both
young and old, to life.
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Children
of the Wigwam
Author:
Annie Chase
Key words: wigwam, flying fox, mamma, shooting
star, scalps, medicine lodge, wampum, yellow
bird, leggins, deer hunt, canoe, hunting ground,
papa, war club, bruin, trembling leaf, black
duck, turtle dove
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First Book |
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| Christmas
Sketches |
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| Chronicles
of the Conquest of the Granada- Volume 1 |
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of the Conquest of the Granada- Volume 2 |
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Colonial
Children
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart, Blanche Evans
Hazard
Fiction / General
Description:
Later my father married another woman who let
me see the difference between my own mother
and a step-mother. She did not seem to love
me and turned my father against me. Then my
father sent me to school to a Welshman, Mr.
Rico, who kept the free school in the town of
Lancaster. He was exceedingly cruel and dealt
unjustly with me. This discouraged me so about
school and lessons that I remember wishing often
times that I might take care of pigs.
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Columbus
His Life and Voyages (1914)
Author:
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Language: English
Keywords: Columbus, Christopher; Palos (Spain)
-- Description and travel
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His Life and Voyages |
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Doyles Best Books (Volume 1) |
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Doyles Best Books (Volume 2) |
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Doyles Best Books (Volume 3) |
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Friends |
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CXCII
Selected English Short Stories ([1914])
Digitizing
Sponsor: MSN
Language: English
Keywords: Short stories, English; Short stories,
American
Scott,
Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's
tale.--Lamb, Charles. The witch aunt.--Irving,
Washington. Rip Van Winkle.--Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The snow image. The threefold destiny. Dr. Heidegger's
experiment. Howe's masquerade.--Disraeli, Benjamin.
Ixion in heaven.--Poe, E.A. The fall of the
House of Usher. The pit and the pendulum. Eleonora.--Gaskell,
Elizabeth C. The squire's story.--Brown, Dr.
John. Rab and his friends.--Dickens, Charles.
The seven poor travellers.--Trollope, Anthony.
Malachi's cove.--Meredith, George. The punishment
of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder.--White,
W.H. Mr Whittaker's retirement.--Morris, William.
The story of the unknown church.--Garnett, Richard.
The dumb oracle.--Harte, F.B. Miggles. Tennessee's
partner. The Iliad of Sandy Bar. Mliss.--Stevenson,
R.L. Markheim. Thrawn Janet. Providence and
the guitar.--Gissing, George. Christopherson.--Coleridge,
Mary. The king is dead, long live the king.--Crackenthorpe,
Hubert. Saint-Pé
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Daisy
Dingle
Published: Charles E. Graham & Co. (1910)
Description:
A collection of verses in full-color illustration.
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Dingle |
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Dancing
Author:
Marguerite Wilson
A
complete guide to all dances.
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Danger!
and Other Stories (1918)
Author:
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Language: English
Danger!--One
crowded hour.--A point of view.--The fall of
Lord Barrymore.--The horror of the heights.--Borrowed
scenes.--The surgeon of Gaster Fell.--How it
happened.--The prisoner's defence.--Three of
them: A chat about children, snakes, and zebus.
About cricket. Speculations. The leatherskin
tribe
Date [c1919]
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Balfour |
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Balfour a Sequel to Kidnapped |
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David
Crockett His Life and Adventures
Author:
John S. C. Abbott
Biography / Autobiography
Excerpt: While we were conversing, writes Crockett,
"Colonel Bowie had occasion to draw his
famous knife, and I wish I may be shot if the
bare sight of it wasn't enough to give a man
of a squeamish stomach the colic. He saw I was
admiring it, and said he, 'Colonel, you might
tickle a fellow's ribs a long time with this
little instrument before you'd make make him
laugh.'"
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Crockett His Life and Adventures |
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Author:
Carryl, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1841-1920
Language: English
Description:
On Christmas Eve, eight-year-old Davy drowses
by the fireplace reading Lewis Carroll's classic
novel. He is suddenly accosted by a kaleidoscopic
Goblin who transforms the family's Dutch clock
into a boat, transporting Davy to a weird land
inhabited by storybook figures including Robinson
Crusoe, Robin Hood (and his daughter...
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and the Goblin- Version 2 |
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Author:
Carryl, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1841-1920
Language: English
Description:
On Christmas Eve, eight-year-old Davy drowses
by the fireplace reading Lewis Carroll's classic
novel. He is suddenly accosted by a kaleidoscopic
Goblin who transforms the family's Dutch clock
into a boat, transporting Davy to a weird land
inhabited by storybook figures including Robinson
Crusoe, Robin Hood (and his daughter...
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Denslows
Mother Goose
Author:
Anonymous
Illustrator: Denslow, William Wallace, 1856-1915
Language: English
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Mother Goose |
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Denslows
Night Before Christmas
Author:
Clement Clarke Moore
Illustrator: W. W. Denslow
Chronicle Books
Children's Books/Ages 4/8 Fiction
Description:
Written one Christmas Eve, this perennial classic
was intended to be a gift from a father to his
children. Instead, it has become a gift to the
world. This Classic Illustrated Edition features
the original text and beautiful reproductions
of works by some of the most notable illustrators
of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Night Before Christmas |
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Dick
Sands the Boy Captain
Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Translator: Frewer, Ellen E.
Language: English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance
literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
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Sands the Boy Captain |
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and Molly at the Seashore |
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Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz- Version 2
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Language: English
Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz Library of Congress Classification:
PZ
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and the Wizard in Oz- Version 2 |
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Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Language: English
Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz Library of Congress Classification:
PZ
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Dorothys
Mystical Adventures in Oz
Author:
Robert J. Evans
Key words and phrases: saari, wicked witch,
woodman, uncle henry, woggle, president jackson,
glinda, president washington, scarecrow, beloved
friends, munchkins, sitting bull, clippity,
higher understanding, earthman, tin woodman,
united states, princess saari, dorothy reminisces,
george washington
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Mystical Adventures in Oz |
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Down
Spider Web Lane
Author:
by Mary Dickerson Donahey
Publisher: E. Stern & Co (1909)
Language: English
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Spider Web Lane |
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Driven
from Home-Or Carl Crawfords Experience
Author:
Horatio Alger
Fiction / General
Description:
He congratulated himself upon being still the
possessor of twenty-five cents in silver. It
was not much, but it seemed a great deal better
than being penniless. A week before he would
have thought it impossible that such a paltry
sum would have made him feel comfortable, but
he had passed through a great deal since then.
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Driven
from Home
Author:
Horatio Alger
Fiction / General
Description:
He congratulated himself upon being still the
possessor of twenty-five cents in silver. It
was not much, but it seemed a great deal better
than being penniless. A week before he would
have thought it impossible that such a paltry
sum would have made him feel comfortable, but
he had passed through a great deal since then.
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Elephant |
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Picturesque Notes |
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Edithas
Burglar
Author:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrated by Henry Sandham
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Fiction
Description:
1888. Burnett, began as a novelist, but she
is now best remembered for her children's books
including The Secret Garden and Sara Crewe (which
was later rewritten to become The Little Princess).
Her romance novels were also quite popular during
her lifetime. The story begins: I will begin
by saying that Editha was always rather a queer
little girl, and not much like other children.
She was not a strong, healthy little girl, and
had never been able to run about and play; and,
as she had no sisters, or brothers, or companions
of her own size, she was rather old-fashioned,
as her aunts used to call it. She had always
been very fond of books, and had learned to
read when she was such a tiny child, that I
should almost be afraid to say how tiny she
was when she read her first volume through.
Her papa wrote books himself, and was also the
editor of a newspaper; and, as he had a large
library, Editha perhaps read more than was quite
good for her. She lived in Long; and, as her
mamma was very young and pretty, and went out
a great deal, and her papa was so busy, and
her governess only came in the morning, she
was left to herself a good many hours in the
day, and when she was left to herself, she spent
the greater part of her time in the library
reading her papa's big books, and even his newspapers.
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Eight
Hundred Leagues On the Amazon
Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Language: English
LoC Class PQ: Language: and Literatures: Romance
literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
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Hundred Leagues On the Amazon |
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Eneas
Africanus
By
Harry Stillwell Edwards
Key words: tommey, grey mare, eneas, major george,
africanus, race horse, marse, horse wagon, thomasville,
dear major, hyar, famous race, ergin, jefferson
counties, macon, marse george, lady chain, just
sweethearts, maj. george, tommey legion
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