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Riddles, Juvenile

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• Riddles

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• Riddles -- Juvenile literature

• A Collection of Birds and Riddles, by Miss Polly and Master Tommy (York, UK: J. Kendrew, ca. 1820) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Good Child's Amusing Riddle-Book, Adorned with Cuts (Birmingham, UK: Printed by T. Brandard, n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Riddle-Book (Wendell, MA: J. Metcalf, 1828) (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• A Riddle Book, for Silent Reading (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally and Co., c1925), by Lily Lee Dootson, illust. by Clarence Biers (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Riddle-Book, for the Entertainment of Boys and Girls (New Haven: Sidney's Press, 1826) (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
• A Riddle Book, For the Use of Children (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1843)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A New Riddle Book: or, A Whetstone for Dull Wits (ca. 1790), contrib. by John Drewry
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Vergleichende Rätselforschungen (3 parts (FF Communications #26-28), in German; Helsinki and Hamina: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Kustantama, 1918-1920), by Antti Aarne
  • all parts: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Part I: page images in Germany
  • Part II: page images in Germany
  • Part III: page images in Germany
• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at djm.cc
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Maze (electronic edition), by Christopher Manson (illustrated HTML at obs-us.com)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Little Book of Poetry for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1847) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Language of Riddles: New Perspectives (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by W. J. Pepicello and Thomas A. Green (PDF at Ohio State)
• Vergleichende Rätselforschungen (3 parts (FF Communications #26-28), in German; Helsinki and Hamina: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Kustantama, 1918-1920), by Antti Aarne
  • all parts: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Part I: page images in Germany
  • Part II: page images in Germany
  • Part III: page images in Germany

• The Literary Riddle in Italy in the Seventeenth Century (UC Publications in Modern Philology v40; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), by Michele De Filippis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Patty's Motor Car (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1911), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jimmy Crow (Boston: Dana Estes and Co., c1902), by Edith Francis Foster
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at LOC

• Rijmpies en Raaisels: Bijdraë tot die Suidafrikaanse Volkskunde (in Afrikaans; Groningen and The Hague: J.B. Wolters, 1919), by C. F. Groenewald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hawaiian Proverbs and Riddles (in English and Hawaiian; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #77; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Henry P. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Riddles of Aldhelm: Text and Verse Translation, With Notes (Yale Studies in English #67; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925), by Saint Aldhelm, ed. by James Hall Pitman (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Little Book of Filipino Riddles (Yonkers, NY: World Book Co., 1909), ed. by Frederick Starr (Gutenberg text)