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• Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ethel Morton at Rose House (Cleveland and New York: World Syndicate Pub. Co., 1915), by Mabell S. C. Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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)
• Cousin Lucy at Play: By the Author of the Rollo Books, by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mislaid Uncle, by Evelyn Raymond, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of Jimmy Brown, by W. L. Alden, illust. by William Ludwell Sheppard (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sweet P's, by Julie M. Lippmann, illust. by Ida Waugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Elsie's Winter Trip, by Martha Finley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Little Eskimo Cousin, by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Little German Cousin, by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Little Cuban Cousin, by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Little Canadian Cousin, by Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Randy's Summer: A Story for Girls, by Amy Brooks (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jewel's Story Book, by Clara Louise Burnham (Gutenberg ebook)
• A picture book of sports and plays (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1869), by Thomas Nelson & Sons (page images at Florida)
• Prince Dimple and his every-day doings (New York (182 Fifth Avenue): Anson D.F. Randolph and Co., 1890), by George A. Paull (page images at Florida)
• Prince Dimple on his travels (New York: Anson D.F. Randolph and Co., 1892), by George A. Paull (page images at Florida)
• Jim (London, Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, c1892), by Christian Burke (page images at Florida)
• The Little new neighbor (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1891), by Mary D. Brine, illust. by A. G Plympton (page images at Florida)
• Sweetheart travellers (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1895), by S. R Crockett, illust. by Gordon Browne and William H. C. Groome (page images at Florida)
• Little Peterkin Vandike (Boston: Alpha Publishing Company, 1896), by Charles Stuart Pratt, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at Florida)
• The Miff-Miffs (London, Glasgow, Dublin: Blackie & Son, c1898), by Mabel Mackness (page images at Florida)
• The holiday prize (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1896), by Ellinor Davenport Adams and Jarrold and Sons, illust. by K. M. Skeaping (page images at Florida)
• The Christmas font (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868), by Mary Jane Holmes, George W Carleton, and Son & Co Sampson Low (page images at Florida)
• The Bunny stories (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1892), by John Howard Jewett, illust. by Culmer Barnes (page images at Florida)
• Children of a sunny land (Boston: D. Lothrop Company, n.d.), by Anna R Henderson, illust. by L. J Bridgmam (page images at Florida)
• The book of playmates (London: Griffith Farran & Co., 1894), by Mary E Gellie (page images at Florida)
• Tommy Toddles (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896), by Albert Lee, illust. by Peter Newell (page images at Florida)
• "Carrots," (New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, n.d.), by C.J. Peters & Son (Typographer ), illust. by Charles Copeland (page images at Florida)
• The farmer's boy (New York: D. Appleton and Company, n.d.), by Clifton Johnson and Appleton Press (page images at Florida)
• Being a boy (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by Charles Dudley Warner, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and H.O. Houghton & Company, illust. by Clifton Johnson (page images at Florida)
• Tattine (London: Ernest Nister, 1898), by Ruth Ogden (page images at Florida)
• Gwen (London: National Society's Depository, 1898), by Penelope Leslie, illust. by Charles Joseph Staniland (page images at Florida)
• Song flowers from "A child's garden of verses" (London: Gardner Darton & Co., 1897), by Robert Louis Stevenson, S. R Crockett, and Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray Atholl, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at Florida)
• Busy days (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1897), by Lothrop Publishing Company. d4 pbl (page images at Florida)
• The Booboo book (Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1898), by Gertrude Smith, illust. by Frank T Merrill and C. F Relyea (page images at Florida)
• A thoughtless seven (London: Religious Tract Society, 1898), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by William H. C. Groome (page images at Florida)

• Eight Girls and a Dog, by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg ebook)

• Mr. Sweet Potatoes (New York, Akron, Ohio, Chicago: Werner Company, 1899) (page images at Florida)

• Historical Acting Charades: or, Amusements for Winter Evenings (new edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1858), by Julia Charlotte Maitland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Christmas font (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868), by Mary Jane Holmes, George W Carleton, and Son & Co Sampson Low (page images at Florida)

• The Crimson Flash (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1922), by Roy J. Snell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Circus Day (Akron et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co, 1903), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Leo the Circus Boy: or, Life Under the Great White Canvas (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1897), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Mr. Stubbs's Brother: A Sequel to "Toby Tyler" (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1882), by James Otis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mr. Stubbs's Brother: A Sequel to "Toby Tyler" (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1910), by James Otis (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Toby Tyler: or, Ten Weeks With a Circus (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1909), by James Otis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Doctor Dolittle's Circus (1924), by Hugh Lofting
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• Peter Rabbit at the Circus (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., ca. 1921), by Alma Hudson, illust. by Richard Hudson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The little acrobat: a story of Italy, by Janie Prichard Duggan, illust. by Nana French Bickford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jack the runaway; or, On the road with a circus, by Frank V. Webster (Gutenberg ebook)
• My twin puppies, by Edna Groff Deihl (Gutenberg ebook)
• Billy Whiskers at the Circus, by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by Arthur DeBebian (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan, by Edwin P. Norwood, illust. by A. Conway Peyton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tamba, the Tame Tiger: His Many Adventures, by Richard Barnum, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tinkle, the Trick Pony: His Many Adventures, by Richard Barnum, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dido, the Dancing Bear: His Many Adventures, by Richard Barnum, illust. by C. P. Bluemlein (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Bear Family at Home, and How the Circus Came to Visit Them, by Curtis Dwight Wilbur, illust. by W. R. Lohse (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Young Hero; Or, Fighting to Win, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Young Circus Rider; or, the Mystery of Robert Rudd, contrib. by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Loyal Little Red-Coat: A Story of Child-life in New York a Hundred Years Ago, by Ruth Ogden, illust. by Henry Alexander Ogden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Motor Matt's Make Up; or, Playing a New Rôle, by Stanley R. Matthews (Gutenberg ebook)
• Motor Matt's Short Circuit; or, The Mahout's Vow, by Stanley R. Matthews (Gutenberg ebook)
• Motor Matt's Engagement; or, On the Road with a Show, by Stanley R. Matthews (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Brownie Scouts in the Circus, by Mildred A. Wirt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Highway, by Ralph Henry Barbour, illust. by C. M. Relyea (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wet Magic, by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg ebook)
• Clown, the Circus Dog, by A. Vimar, trans. by Nora Kathleen Hills (Gutenberg ebook)
• P. T. Barnum's Menagerie, by P. T. Barnum and Sarah J. Burke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letty and the Twins, by Helen Sherman Griffith, illust. by Frances D. Jones (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Little Clown, by Thomas Cobb (Gutenberg ebook)
• Joe Strong on the Trapeze; Or, The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer, by Vance Barnum (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant: His Many Adventures, by Richard Barnum, illust. by Harriet H. Tooker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nero, the Circus Lion: His Many Adventures, by Richard Barnum, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Circus Comes to Town, by Lebbeus Mitchell, illust. by Rhoda Chase (Gutenberg ebook)
• Squinty the Comical Pig: His Many Adventures, by Richard Barnum, illust. by Harriet H. Tooker (Gutenberg ebook)
• P.T. Barnum's menagerie (New York and London: White & Allen, n.d.), by P. T. Barnum, ed. by Sarah J Burke (page images at Florida)
• The infant Zephyr (London: Sunday School Union, 1881), by Benjamin Clarke (page images at Florida)
• The good-natured bear (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850), by R. H. Horne, Henry George Bohn, Walter George Mason, and Bone & Son (page images at Florida)
• Freddy and his Bible text, or, The little runaway (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872) (page images at Florida)
• Romain Kalbris (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, c1873), by Hector Malot and Westcott & Thomson, trans. by Julia McNair Wright, illust. by Émile Antoine Bayard and Adolphe François Pannemaker (page images at Florida)
• True under trial (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company., 1885), by Frances Palmer, illust. by G. L Seymour and W. A Cranston (page images at Florida)
• True under trial (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1888), by Frances Palmer (page images at Florida)
• The runaways (London: Religious Tract Society, 1889), by Sidney Grey (page images at Florida)
• Honor Bright, or, The four-Leaved Shamrock (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1891), by Author of "Honor Bright" and Sue Chestnutwood Perkins (page images at Florida)
• Denslow's Jack and the bean-stalk (New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1903), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Florida)
• Denslow's One ring circus (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1903), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Florida)
• The true story of Jack and the beanstalk (London and Glasgow: Langfier, Ltd., 1899), by Arthur Sturgess, Arthur Collins, and Drury Lane Theatre, illust. by Percy J Billinghurst (page images at Florida)

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