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• Child's monitor (Published by Whiting & Watson ... :, 1811), by James Janeway, John Cooke, and James Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des enfans devenus celebres par leurs etudes ou par leurs ecrits. Traité historiqve. (Chez Antoine Dezallier., 1688), by Adrien Baillet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early dead; containing brief memoirs of several Sunday-school children who died in 1846. (Carlton & Porter, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eucharistic lilies; youthful lovers of Jesus in the Blessed sacrament (Benziger, 1912), by Mary Theodosia Mug (page images at HathiTrust)
• When they were children; stories of the childhood of famous men and women (F.A. Stokes Co., 1914), by Amy Steedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebrated children of all ages and nations (George Routledge, 1853), by Michel Masson, L. Burke, John Leighton, and W. Harry Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les enfants ceĺeb̀res; ou, Histoire des enfants de tous les siècles et de tous les pays qui se sont immortalisés par le malheur, la piété, le courage, le génie, le savoir, et le talent (Didier et Cie., 1875), by Michel Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enfances célèbres. (L. Hachette & Cie., 1865), by Louise Colet and Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Levensbeschrijvingen van beroemde kinderen, of voorbeelden voor de jeugd, om te dienen tot een leesboek, en tot onderwijs voor kinderen (J. Allart, 1800), by Anne François Joachim Fréville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie des enfans célèbres; ou, Modèles du jeune age ... (Chez Genets jeune, 1820), by A. F. J. Fréville (page images at HathiTrust)
• I bambini delle diverse nazioni a casa loro (R. Bemporad, 1890), by Emma Perodi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enfances célèbres. (Hachette, 1879), by Louise Colet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A token for children : being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful deaths, of several young children (Printed for I. Thomas, by James R. Hutchins, 1795), by James Janeway and Cotton Mather (page images at HathiTrust)
• The juvenile Plutarch : containing accounts of the lives of celebrated children and of the infancy of persons who have been illustrious for their virtues or talents. (Printed, by assignment of the assignees of Richard Phillips, by William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill, 1820), by R. Phillips, William Darton, and National Art Library (Great Britain). Renier Collection of Historic and Contemporary Children's Books (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of remarkable youth of both sexes. (E. Littell, Chesnut Street, 1830) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lives of celebrated children ... (Charles Tappan, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blossoms of childhood (General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1851), by Meta Lander (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Ellard the newsboy. (William S. & Alfred Martien, 1860), by William H. Van Ingen, Henry M. Snyder, M. B., and William S. & Alfred Martien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Nathan W. Dickerman : who died at Boston, (Mass.) January 2, 1830 in the eighth year of his age. (Peirce & Parker, 1833), by Gorham D. Abbot, James Eddy, William S. Pendleton, and Peirce and Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's year (Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1847), by Mary Howitt, Anna Mary Howitt, and John Absolon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The faithful mother's reward: a narrative of the conversion and happy death of J.P.B. who died in the tenth year of his age. (Presbyterian board of publication, 1853), by Charles Hodge and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School) Board of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Winslow (J.S. Taylor, 1844), by Charles Lathrop Winslow and L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous children who have gained renown in the past : illustrated from historical paintings. (Lee and Shepard, 1903), by Hannah Twitchell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Little folks in history (The Abingdon press, 1917), by Dorothy Donnell Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Visit to the Chinese coast, and other books for the young. (Published by the American Tract Society, 1846), by Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, Elias James Whitney, Benjamin F. Childs, Phineas F. Annin, Henry Walker Herrick, G. G., Roberg S. Bross, J. Augustus Bogart, T. M., B., Richard Cranfield, Samuel W. Lynd, James Drummond, and American Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enfances célèbres. (Hachette et cie, 1882), by Louise Colet and Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enfances célèbres (Hachette, 1911), by Louise Colet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The children of the manse (R. Carter & Brothers, 1851), by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan, Howland, Alexander Hay Ritchie, Victor Piard, Alexander Beckers, Edward R. Field, and Robert Carter & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les enfants célèbres; ou, histoire des enfants de tous les siécles et tous les pays (Didier, 1852), by Michel Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A token for children : being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful deaths of several young children (Boston, Printed :, 1749), by James Janeway and Cotton Mather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enfances célèbres (in French), by Louise Colet, illust. by Jean Antoine Valentin Foulquier (Gutenberg ebook)
• A token for children being an exact account of the conversion, holy and exemplary lives and joyful deaths of several young children / by James Janeway. (London : Printed for Dorman Newman, 1676), by James Janeway (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A Token for Children: Being an Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children (Worcester, MA: Printed For I. Thomas, 1795), by James Janeway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The compleat scholler; or, A relation of the life, and latter-end especially, of Caleb Vernon who dyed in the Lord on the 29th of the ninth month, 1665. Aged twelve years and six months. Commending to youth the most excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus the Lord. (London : printed for the author, 1666), by John Vernon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Persévérance et renommée : contes historiques (A. Bédelet, 1800), by Eugénie Foa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A token for children (Worcester, Mass: Printed for I. Thomas, by James R. Hutchins, n.d.), by James Janeway, Cotton Mather, James Reed Hutchins, and Isaiah Thomas (page images at Florida)

• Boys of the Ages: Their Dreams and Their Crafts, by Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The boyhood of great men. (Harper & brothers, 1854), by John G. Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boyhood of great men. Intended as an example to youth. (Harper, 1856), by John G. Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten boys from history (Duffield & company, 1910), by Kate Dickinson Sweetser (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of boyhoods, Chaucer to MacDowell (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1922), by Eugénie Mary Fryer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Nathan W. Dickerman : who died at Boston, (Mass.) January 2, 1830 in the eighth year of his age. (Peirce & Parker, 1833), by Gorham D. Abbot, James Eddy, William S. Pendleton, and Peirce and Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of the childhood of Michael Angelo, Mozart, Haydn, Watteau, and Sebastian Gomèz (E.P. Dutton and Co., 1868), by Eugénie Foa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic boys : their endeavors, their achievements and their times (G. P. Putnams̓ Sons, 1885), by Elbridge S. Brooks, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boys of the ages ; their dreams and their crafts. (Ginn and company, 1922), by Laura Woolsey Lord Scales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young people of history : their endeavors, their achievements and their times (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1927), by Elbridge S. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of poor boys who became famous (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1925), by Sarah Knowles Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of Hal (J. Miller and Son, 1892), by Henry Douglas Freshfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of grit, by Archer Wallace, contrib. by Taylor Statten (Gutenberg ebook)
• Boys Who Became Famous Men: Stories of the Childhood of Poets, Artists, and Musicians, by Harriet Pearl Skinner, illust. by Sears Gallagher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Being a Boy, by Charles Dudley Warner, illust. by Clifton Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times, by Elbridge S. Brooks, illust. by Reginald Bathurst Birch and John Schönberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ten Boys from History, by Kate Dickinson Sweetser, illust. by George Alfred Williams (Gutenberg ebook)

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