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• Charades -- Juvenile fiction

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Open Sesame: One Hundred Answers in Rhyme to William Bellamy's Century of Charades (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896), by Harlan Hoge Ballard (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)

• Historical Acting Charades: or, Amusements for Winter Evenings (new edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1858), by Julia Charlotte Maitland (multiple formats at archive.org)

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
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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

• 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)

• Drawing-Room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes (London: S. River and Co., 1870), ed. by Clement Scott, contrib. by E. L. Blanchard, J. Palgrave Simpson, W. S. Gilbert, Tom Hood, Charles Smith Cheltnam, Robert Reece, Arthur Sketchley, Alfred Thompson, Thomas Archer, John C. Brough, J. Ashby-Sterry, Sidney Daryl, and A. B. (multiple formats at Google)
• Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces for New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a Child's Birthday (New York: Duffield and Co., 1913), by Marguerite Merington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia (revised edition, c1905), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strolling Players: A Harmony of Contrasts (London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1893), by Charlotte M. Yonge and Christabel R. Coleridge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2000), by Lynn Mally
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The N-Town Plays, A Modernization (c1999), ed. by Stanley J. Kahrl and Alexandra F. Johnston (HTML at chass.utoronto.ca)
• "Everyman," With Other Interludes, Including Eight Miracle Plays (London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., reprinted 1914), contrib. by Ernest Rhys (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The N-Town Cycle, ed. by Gerard NeCastro (HTML at Maine)
• The York Plays, ed. by Richard Beadle (HTML at Michigan)

• Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: A Reader for the Fourth Grade (1908), by Augusta Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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

• Tit for Tat: A Play for Little Folks (Chicago and New York: Dramatic Pub. Co., c1906), by Marjorie Benton Cooke (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Leslie Elaine Frost (PDF at Ohio State)

• Trickster's Famous Deeds: A Trilogy of Theatrical Plays For Children, by Florentin Smarandache (HTML at UNM)

• Pedantius, by Edward Forset, ed. by Dana F. Sutton (HTML with commentary at the Philological Museum)

• The Coming of the Mayflower: A Pilgrim Pageant (c1920), by Rosamond Kimball and Youth's Companion
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pageantry and the Pilgrim Tercentenary Celebration (1620-1920): With Sample Pilgrim Pageants, Suggestions for Programs, Bibliographies, etc., for the State of Utah (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 1920), by B. Roland Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Path of Progress: A Pageant Drama of the Nation (Memphis: Press of Early Printing Co., c1920), by Annah Robinson Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Scenes from Dreamland": or, "Christian and Christina's Journey", Arranged from "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" (New York: Hints Pub. Co., c1902), by Margaret Holmes Francisco, contrib. by John Bunyan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Between the Acts (1941), by Virginia Woolf (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• How the Pilgrim Spirit Came to Illinois: A Pageant Written and Presented by the Students and Faculty of the New Trier Township High School in Commemoration of the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims (1921), by New Trier Township High School
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Masquerades, Tableaux and Drills, by Butterick Publishing Company (HTML and page images at LOC)

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