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• Domestic Pleasures, or, The Happy Fire-Side, by Frances Bowyer Vaux (Gutenberg text)
• Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's, by Sophie May
  • illustrated HTML at readseries.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Dotty Dimple at Play, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text)
• Dotty Dimple Out West, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• First Lessons in Gentleness and Truth, by Adelia C. Graves (page images at MOA)
• Little Prudy (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1891), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Prudy's Sister Susy, by Sophie May
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at readseries.com
• Prudy Keeping House, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Step-Brothers: A Tale (London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1828), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Broken Vase, and Other Stories, for Children and Youth (Fitchburg, MA: S. and C. Shepley, 1847)
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Little Book About Little Birds, &c. (London: J. and C. Evans, 1826) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Penn's Advice to His Children, by William Penn
  • part 1: HTML at qhpress.org
  • part 2: HTML at qhpress.org
  • part 3: HTML at qhpress.org
• Wisdom In Miniature, or, The Young Gentleman And Lady's Magazine: Being A Collection Of Sentences, Divine and Moral (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Adams, 1805)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• The Mothers Legacie to Her Unborne Childe (reprinted from 1625 edition, with added introduction; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1852), by Elizabeth Jocelin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Young Apprentice (credited to "the author of Fern's Hollow", i.e. Stretton; Boston: H. Hoyt, n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mother's Book (Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Babcock, 1831), by Lydia Maria Child (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Leisure Hours: or, Entertaining Dialogues, Between Persons Eminent for Virtue and Magnanimity (fifth edition; London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1812), by Priscilla Wakefield (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Across the Common After Wild Flowers (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1895), by M. C. Cooke (page images at ufl.edu)
• The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1884), by Helen Ashe Hays (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aunt Madge's Story (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1874), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Baby's Story Book, With Pictures and Silhouettes, For Our Little Ones (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1879), ed. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bede's Charity (New York: Dodd and Mead, 1872), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)
• "Behind Time" (New York: Cassell and Co., c1886), by George Parsons Lathrop, illust. by Oliver Herford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bishop's Shadow, by Ida Treadwell Thurston, illust. by M. Eckerson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Brownies and Other Tales (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Co., 1871), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gutenberg text)
• The Brownies and Other Tales (Boston: Roberts Brothers; London: Bell & Daldy, 1871), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illust. by George Cruikshank (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Careless Kate: A Story for Little Folks (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1889), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Cherry Tree (London et al.: Pickering and Inglis, ca. 1901), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Children of Wilton Chase, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Chrissy's Endeavor (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1889), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• A Christmas Fairy, and Other Stories (London: E. Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1878), by John Strange Winter, Frances E. Crompton, and Mrs. Molesworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Daisy (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1868-1869), by Susan Warner
  • volume I: frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
  • volume II: frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
• Daisy (London: Ward Lock, and Co., n.d.), by Susan Warner (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Daisy in the Field (London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d.), by Susan Warner (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Dickory Dock, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Divers Women, by Isabella Macdonald Alden and Mrs. C. M. Livingston (Gutenberg text)
• The Fairy Bower, or, The History of a Month: A Tale (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1847), by Harriet Elizabeth Mozley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Friends Till Death (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Georgie (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1857), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Great Emergency and Other Tales, by Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gutenberg text)
• A Guernsey Lily, or, How the Feud Was Healed: A Story for Girls and Boys (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881), by Susan Coolidge, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Happy Home: or, The Children at the Red House (London: Griffith and Farran, 1864), by Henrietta Prescott Lushington, illust. by George John Pinwell (page images at Google)
• Harry's Garden (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1880) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Hills of the Shatemuc (New York: D. Appleton and company, 1856), by Susan Warner (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Hills of the Shatemuc (Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1856), by Susan Warner (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Hills of the Shatemuc (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), by Susan Warner (frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Holiday Stories for Young People (New York: The Christian Herald, c1896), ed. by Margaret E. Sangster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Honesty, the Best Policy (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., n.d.), contrib. by Mary Irving (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• James Manners, Little John, and Their Dog Bluff (second edition; London: Printed for the Proprietors, 1801), by Elizabeth Somerville (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jill's Red Bag (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1903), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Alfred Pearse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Katawampus: Its Treatment and Cure (London: D. Nutt, 1895), by Edward Abbott Parry, illust. by Archie MacGregor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitty's Class-Day, "A Stitch in Time, Saves Nine"; Aunt Kipp, "Children and Fools Speak The Truth"; Psyche's Art, "Handsome Is, That Handsome Does" (Boston: Loring, 1868), by Louisa May Alcott, illust. by Augustus Hoppin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kitty's Class Day, and Other Stories (also includes "Aunt Kipp"; "Psyche's Art"; "A Country Christmas"; "On Pickety Duty"; "The Baron's Gloves"; "My Red Cap"; "What the Bells Saw and Said"), by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
• Last Words: A Final Collection of Stories (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1891), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illust. by Hermann Dudley Murphy (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1874), by James De Mille
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Folks Astray (1872), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Grandfather (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dilling, 1874), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Little Minnie and Other Stories (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co.; Dover, NH: G. T. Day and Co., c1876), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Little Red Shop (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1889), by Margaret Sidney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Saint Elizabeth, and Other Stories (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1893), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch, Alfred Brennan, and O. A. (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Little Susy's Little Servants (first and second series; New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., c1883), by E. Prentiss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lost Child (London and New York: Macmillan and Co;, 1871), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Lorenz Frølich (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Madman and the Pirate, by R. M. Ballantyne, illust. by Arthur Twidle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Lydia Maria Child (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Magician's Show Box, and Other Stories, by Lydia Maria Child (Gutenberg text)
• Melbourne House (2 volumes; New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1865), by Susan Warner (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Minnie's Playroom: or, How to Practice Calisthenics (Boston: G. C. Rand, 1854), by Daniel Wise (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)
• My Brother Ben (anonymously published, but attributed in some catalogs to Sargent; London: Religious Tract Society, n.d.), by George E. Sargent (multiple formats at Google)
• New Year's Tangles, and Other Stories (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1884), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Night and a Day; also, Apple-Tree Court, and The Worth of a Baby (New York: American Tract Society, n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Co., n.d.), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gutenberg text)
• The Old Helmet (New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1864), by Susan Warner
  • Volume I: frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
  • Volume II: frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
• The Old Helmet (London: James Nisbet and Co, n.d.), by Susan Warner (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Oliver of the Mill: A Tale (Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1876), by Maria Louisa Charlesworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On Board the Esmeralda, by John C. Hutcheson
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Paddy O'Learey and His Learned Pig (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1895), by Elizabeth W. Champney, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (page images at Florida)
• The Peace Egg and Other Tales, by Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gutenberg text)
• Perils Afloat and Brigands Ashore (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1886), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piccino, and Other Child Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Reginald B. Birch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Princess Idleways: A Fairy Story (New York: Harper, c1879), by Helen Ashe Hays (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Rollo at Work: or, The Way to Be Industrious, by Jacob Abbott (multiple formats at Gutenberg)
• Rollo in the Woods (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1857), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Roman Reporter (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; et al., ca. 1893), by Arthur Aikin Brodribb (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Roses (New York: W. B. Ketcham, c1899), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Sydney Cowell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sea Change (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Flora L. Shaw, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sevenfold Trouble (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1889), by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Sister's Bye-Hours, by Jean Ingelow (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Snap-Dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve; and Old Father Christmas: An Old-Fashioned Tale of the Young Days of a Grumpy Old Godfather (London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1888), by Juliana Horatia Ewing, illust. by Gordon Browne (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Stories of Many Lands (New York: J. B. Alden, 1885), by Grace Greenwood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of a Persian Cat (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Jennie Chappell (page images at Florida)
• Sugar and Spice: Comical Tales Comically Dressed, by James Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tales Told in the Twilight: A Volume of Very Short Stories (London: E. Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., ca. 1899), contrib. by Olive Molesworth, E. Nesbit, L. L. Weedon, Emily Bennett, Mrs. Molesworth, and Gwendolen Cecil (page images at Florida)
• The Talking Horse, and Other Tales (second edition; London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1892), by F. Anstey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• The Village Maid: or, Dame Burton's Moral Stories for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth; To Which are Added, Plain Tales (Philadelphia: J. Bioren, 1802), by Elizabeth Somerville, illust. by Benjamin Tanner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The White Dove: A Tale (Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier, n.d.), by Christoph von Schmid (page images at ufl.edu)
• Willing to be Useful: or, Principle and Duty Illustrated in the Story of Edith Allison (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874) (page images at Florida)
• A Year With Nellie (London: Blackie and Son, n.d.), by A. S. Fenn
  • PDF at Florida
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Beyond the Blue Mountains (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1893), by L. T. Meade (page images at Florida)
• The Confessions of a Daddy (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Ellis Parker Butler, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Countess Kate, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Daisy: or, the Fairy Spectacles (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1857), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)
• The Discontented Children, and How They Were Cured (London: Grant and Griffith, 1855), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (multiple formats at Google)
• Father Brighthopes: or, An Old Clergyman's Vacation (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.), by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Flower and the Star, and Other Stories for Children (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891), by W. J. Linton (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet: or, Furry and Feathery Pets and How They Live (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1886), ed. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geordie's Tryst: A Tale of Scottish Life (London: Religious Tract Society, n.d.), by Mrs. Milne Rae (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The History of a Pin (Edinburgh: A. Strahan and Co.; London: Hamilton, Adams and Co, 1861), by E. M. S. (Emma M. Stirling), illust. by Robert Thorburn Ross (page images at Florida)
• Holiday House, by Catherine Sinclair (PDF page image files at Roehampton)
• A Little American Girl in India (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1900), by Harriet A. Cheever, illust. by H. C. Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Little Wise Chicken That Knew it All (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1918), by Kenneth Graham Duffield (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Madame Tabby's Establishment (London and New York: Macmillan, 1886), by Kari, illust. by Louis Wain (page images at Florida)
• The Man With the Pan-Pipes; and Other Stories (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., ca. 1892), by Mrs. Molesworth, illust. by Walter Jenks Morgan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Own Fairy Book (Bristol, UK: Arrowsmith; New York: Longmans, Greem and Co., 1895), by Andrew Lang, illust. by Gordon Browne, Tom Scott, and E. A Lemann
  • page images at ufl.edu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Rollo Learning to Read, by Jacob Abbott (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
• What Katy Did: A Story (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Susan Coolidge, illust. by Addie Ledyard (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Cottage and the Grange (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1885), by Evelyn Everett-Green
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Grandma's Happy Hour (New York: American Tract Society, c1892), illust. by Henry Kinnersley (page images at Florida)
• Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1894), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by Oliver Herford (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country: What the Children Saw and Heard There ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by Oliver Herford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melbourne House (2 volumes; New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1864), by Susan Warner
  • Volume I: frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
  • Volume II: frame-dependent page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
• Melbourne House (London: Ward Lock, and Co., 1907), by Susan Warner
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Melbourne House (New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1865), by Susan Warner
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
• The Shawnee Prisoner: A Borderer's Story (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, c1877), by Clara F. Guernsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Take Your Choice! or, A Peep at my Playmates (London: Printed for J. Harris and Son, 1822), by Pat Playful (page images at Princeton)
• The Cozy Lion, As Told by Queen Crosspatch (New York: The Century Co., c1907), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Harrison Cady (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ernie Elton, the Lazy Boy (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1865), by Mrs. Eiloart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Good Resolution (New York: Lane and Scott, 1851), ed. by Daniel P. Kidder (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Katy's Christmas (volume 1 of The Doll's Club series; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1871), by Virginia W. Johnson (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)
• Our Next Door Neighbour: A Story for Children (London: J. Masters and Co., 1881), by Stella Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prince Goldenblade: A Rational Fairy Tale for Big and Little Folks (London et al,: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889), by Gilbert Campbell, illust. by R. André (page images at Florida)

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