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• The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) (New York: The Century Co., 1899), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dare to be Creative! A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984), by Madeleine L'Engle, contrib. by John Young Cole and Sybille A. Jagusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juvenile Story Writing (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., c1922), by Mabel Louise Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Baby World: Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks, Compiled From St. Nicholas (New York: The Century Co., c1884), ed. by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Children's Book (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1915), ed. by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse (book 5 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago and Toronto: The Bookhouse for Children, c1921), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journeys through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (10 volumes; Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Co., c1909), ed. by Charles Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Junior Classics (10 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1918), ed. by William Patten, contrib. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson (multiple formats at archive.org, HathiTrust, and Gutenberg)
• The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse (book 4 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Types of Children's Literature: A Collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, For Use in Colleges, Normal Schools and Library Schools, ed. by Walter Barnes (Gutenberg text)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Imagination and Children's Reading (Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1921), by Grace Hazard Conkling
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Latch Key of My Bookhouse (book 6 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1921), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)

• American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• Children as Authors (ca. 1936), by Utica Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Leonard S. Marcus (PDF with commentary at Minnesota; 643 MB)
• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• St. Nicholas (partial serial archives)
• John Martin's Book (partial serial archives)
• Little Folks (American children's magazine published by Cassino from 1897-1926) (partial serial archives)
• The Boy's Own Annual (partial serial archives)
• The Boy's Own Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Every Youth's Gazette (full serial archives)
• Forrester's Boys' and Girls' Magazine, and Fireside Companion (partial serial archives)
• Joy Street (partial serial archives)
• Routledge's Every Boy's Annual, ed. by Edmund Routledge (partial serial archives)
• Routledge's Every Girl's Annual, ed. by Alicia Amy Leith (partial serial archives)
• Solstrålen: Sagostundsbarnens Tidning (children's magazine in Swedish; issues online 1906-1909) (partial serial archives)
• The Student and Schoolmate (partial serial archives)
• Young Israel (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1907-ca. 1940) (partial serial archives)

• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)

• The Children's Encyclopaedia (8 volumes; London: Educational Book Co., ca. 1910), ed. by Arthur Mee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Child's Guide to Knowledge: Being a Collection of Useful and Familiar Questions and Answers on Every-Day Subjects Adapted for Young Persons, and Arranged in the Most Simple and Easy Language (published anonymously, but originally written by Umphelby; 38th edition; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1865), by Fanny Umphelby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Pearl Story Book: A Collection of Tales, Original and Selected (1850), by Mrs. Colman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's Books, 1780-1918 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2009), by David Blamires
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google

• Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: A Reader for the Fourth Grade (1908), by Augusta Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Treasury of Plays for Children (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1921), ed. by Montrose Jonas Moses, illust. by Tony Sarg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dramatized Scenes From American History (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1916), by Augusta Stevenson, illust. by Frank T. Merrill
  • multiple formats at Indiana
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Albany: R. H. Pease, ca. 1850), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• All Round the Year, by E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke, illust. by H. Bellingham Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Aunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children ("Aunt Effie" believed to be Saxby; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Aunt Effie, contrib. by Jane Euphemia Saxby, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and Matthew Urlwin Sears
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Aunt Louisa's Child's Delight: Comprising Rip Van Winkle, Yankee Doodle, Pocahontas, Putnam (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1870), contrib. by L. Valentine, Geo. P. Webster, Washington Irving, and Paul Pryor, illust. by Thomas Nast and Justin H. Howard (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Ballad of the Prince (New York: R. H. Russell, 1900), by Alice Archer Sewall James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ballads for Little Folk (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Co., c1873), by Alice Cary and Phoebe Cary, ed. by Mary Clemmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betty, Bobby and Bubbles (Chicago et al.: P.F. Volland and Co., c1921), by Edith Mitchell, illust. by Janet Laura Scott (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, ed. by S. Baring-Gould (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Child Life: A Collection of Poems (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1872), ed. by John Greenleaf Whittier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Childhood Songs, by Lucy Larcom (HTML at Michigan)
• Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1923), ed. by Walter De la Mare, illust. by Alec Buckels (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1923), ed. by Walter De la Mare, illust. by Alec Buckels (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crescent Moon: Child-Poems, by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dan Drake's Rhymes and Dame Duck's Jingles (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1859) (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Eventide Songs and Sketches (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), ed. by E. Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Goose: His Book (second edition; Chicago: G. M. Hill Co., 1899), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by W. W. Denslow
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida
• Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems (new edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1879), by Christina Georgina Rossetti, illust. by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (multiple formats at Google)
• Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Happy Hour Stories (Cincinnati et al.: American Book Co., c1921), by M. Genevieve Silvester and Edith Marshall Peter (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Hymns and Fire-Side Verses (London: Darton and Clark, 1839), by Mary Howitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hymns and Rhymes for Home and School (Boston: Nichols and Hall, 1875), ed. by C. S. Guild
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Infants' Delight (Lee and Shepard book of children's poetry, possibly reprinted from 1870s periodical of same name) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Land of Nod (Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co., 1916), by Margaret Evans Price (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Landscape and Song, ed. by E. Nesbit (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919), by Mary Carolyn Davies, illust. by Harold James Cue (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Lads (Akron, OH: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1904), contrib. by George Cary Eggleston, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Frances A. Humphrey, Madge Elliot, A. D. T. Whitney, and Mary D. Brine (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Little Marian's Pilgrimage (revised by the Committee of Publication; Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1852), ed. by American Sunday-School Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Miss Marigold (London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, ca. 1888), by F. E. Weatherly, illust. by Jane M. Dealy (page images at Florida)
• The Lullaby: With Original Engravings, by John R. Bolles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Muffin Shop (Chicago et al.: Rand Mcnally and Co., c1910), by Louise Ayres Garnett, illust. by Hope Dunlap (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Nursery Rhymes (London: Printed for the booksellers, ca. 1780) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Tree-Top: Children's Favorite Stories (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1891), contrib. by Clara Doty Bates, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and Edmund H. Garrett (page images at Florida)
• On the Way to Wonderland (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1885), by Clara Doty Bates (page images at Florida)
• Over the Rainbow Bridge (Chicago et al.: P. F. Volland Co., c1920), by Louise Marshall Haynes, illust. by Carmen Browne (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Peter Newell's Pictures and Rhymes (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Peter Newell, contrib. by John Kendrick Bangs
  • page images at Florida
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pictures and Songs for Little Children (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1886)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Pocketful of Posies (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1902), by Abbie Farwell Brown, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems for Our Children, Including Mary Had a Little Lamb: Designed for Families, Sabbath Schools, and Infant Schools, Written to Inculcate Moral Truths and Virtuous Sentiments (reprint of 1830 collection (only "part first" published), with added preface; Boston: R. W. Hale, 1916), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, contrib. by Richard Walden Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children, ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls (New York: The Macmillan Company, c1922), ed. by Sara Teasdale, illust. by Dugald Stewart Walker (page images at archive.org)
• Simple Poems for Infant Minds (New York: Kiggins and Kellogg, ca. 1848), illust. by Benjamin F. Pease and William Barritt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sir Hornbook: or, Childe Launcelot's Expedition: A Grammatico-Allegorical Ballad, by Thomas Love Peacock (HTML at thomaslovepeacock.net)
• Songs of Sixpence (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), by Abbie Farwell Brown, illust. by Emma Troth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunbeams (London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner; New York: G. C. Whitney, ca. 1890), by F. E. Weatherly, illust. by Edward Killingworth Johnson and Ernest Wilson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes For Children (New York: G. Routledge and sons, ca. 1880), by Kate Greenaway (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes For Children (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The World Turned Upside Down: or, No News, and Strange News (York: J. Kendrew, ca. 1820)
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Humpty Dumpty and Some Other Funny People from Mother Goose (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by George M. Richards (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1920), by Jessie E. Sampter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (London: Blackie and Son, n.d.), ed. by Walter Jerrold, illust. by Charles Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Books for Children, by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, ed. by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg text)
• The Buckle-My-Shoe Picture Book: Containing One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; A Gaping-Wide-Mouth-Waddling-Frog; My Mother (London and New York: John Lane, ca. 1910), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Ann Taylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Eugene Field Reader (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, c1905), by Eugene Field, ed. by Alice Louise Harris, contrib. by Frank W. Cooley (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Graded Poetry: Seventh Year, ed. by Katherine Devereux Blake and Georgia Alexander (Gutenberg text)
• Hymns for Childhood on the Works of Nature, and Other Subjects, For the Use of Children (Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1840), by Mrs. Hemans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Sweet-Hearts (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1880), contrib. by Margaret Johnson and George Cooper (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Pinafore Palace (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1907), ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Pinky Winky Dog Book (Boston: Marks Bros. Co., c1924), by Dorothy Whipple Fry, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Rays of Sunshine (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1893) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Real Mother Goose, illust. by Blanche Fisher Wright
  • illustrated HTML at designwest.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Sunny Tales for Snowy Days (London et al.: R. Tuck and Sons, ca. 1893), ed. by Edric Vredenburg, contrib. by Helen Marion Burnside, E. Nesbit, and Isabella Fyvie Mayo, illust. by Marchioness of Waterford Louisa Anne, Fanny Moody, Helen Jackson, and John Lawson (page images at Florida)
• Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse (book 3 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Up One Pair of Stairs of My BookHouse (book 2 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wonder Clock, by Howard Pyle and Katharine Pyle (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1920; With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-Known Poems in Other Languages (sixth edition, 2 volumes; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1937), ed. by Burton Egbert Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865), illust. by H. L. Stephens (page images at LOC)
• Floral Fairies: The Mistletoes' Pranks (New York: Floral Fairies Pub. Co., 1913), by Gertrude Ina Robinson, illust. by F. A. Carter (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
  • page images at Princeton
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pansy's Sunday Book, by Famous American Writers (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1895), ed. by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)

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