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Children's books

Here are entered works on books for children considered as physical objects. Collections of works published for children, including literary works, nonliterary works, or both, are entered under Children's literature. Works on the reading interests of children or books recommended for children, are entered under Children -- Books and reading. Collections of literary works or individual literary works written by children under 15 years of age are entered under Children's writings. Works on child authors as a class of persons are entered under Child authors.

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• Books
• Children's paraphernalia

• Children's books -- United States
• Children's reference books
• Illustrated children's books

• Juvenile books

• Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), by Jacalyn Eddy (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• 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

• Di͡e͡tskai͡a͡ Ėnt͡s͡iklopedīi͡a͡ (10-volume adapted translation of Mee's Children's Encylopaedia, in Russian; Moscow: Tip. T-va I. D. Sytina, 1913-1914), ed. by I︠U︡. N. Vagner, S. A. Kni︠a︡zʹkov, Ivan Pavlovich Kozlovskiĭ, N. A. Morozov, Sergeĭ Ivanovich Metal'nikov, and Mikhail Vasilʹevich Novorusskiĭ, contrib. by Arthur Mee
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• When Phantasie Takes Flight: The Art and Imagination of Arthur Rackham (online version of U-Florida exhibit catalog; ca. 2014), ed. by Suzan A. Alteri and John Ingram (illustrated HTML at Florida)
• Little Ann and Other Poems (London: George Routledge and Sons, ca. 1883), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Adelaide O'Keefe, illust. by Kate Greenaway (page images at LOC)
• Little Ann and Other Poems (annotated based on the first edition (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883)), by Jane Taylor, Ann Taylor, and Adelaide O'Keefe, illust. by Kate Greenaway (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• 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)

• The Alphabet; And, Easy Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables (Cobb Toys third series #1; Newark, NJ: B. Olds, 1835), by Lyman Cobb (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Children's Object Book (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.) (page images at LOC)
• A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Riddle Book, For the Use of Children (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1843)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Short History of Birds and Beasts, for the Amusement and Instruction Of Children: Adorned with Cuts (ca. 1830), illust. by John Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Twelve Magic Changelings (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1907), by M. A. Glen (page images at LOC)
• The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Albany: R. H. Pease, ca. 1850), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Bad Mrs. Ginger (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1902), by Honor C. Appleton (page images at childrenslibrary.org)
• Dumpy Proverbs (Dumpy Books for Children #24; London: Grant Richards, 1903), by Honor C. Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Object Teacher (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1884), illust. by Charles J. Howard (page images at Florida)
• Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat (London: S. Marks and Sons, 1859)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple files at archive.org
• Pictures and Songs for Little Children (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1886)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Queerie Queers, With Hands, Wings and Claws (Buffalo, NY: J. D. Larkin, 1885), by Palmer Cox, contrib. by Tom Tit, Professor Hoffmann, and Clara Doty Bates, illust. by H. R. Millar, A. B. Frost, and Louis Poyet (multiple formats at archive.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 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
• The Circus Procession (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1888)
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc Est, Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum, et in Vita Actionum, Pictura et Nomenclatura; Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible World: or, a Nomenclature and Pictures of the Chief Things That Are in the World, and of Mens Employments Therein (in English and Latin; London: J. Sprint, 1705), by Johann Amos Comenius, trans. by Charles Hoole (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius (Syracuse, NY: C. W. Bardeen, 1887), by Johann Amos Comenius, ed. by C. W. Bardeen, trans. by Charles Hoole
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Animal Land, Where There Are No People (second edition; London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1897), by Sybil Corbet and Katharine Corbet, contrib. by Andrew Lang (page images at ufl.edu)
• Two Teaparties (New York et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., c1882), by Rosalie Vanderwater, illust. by Wilson De Meza (page images at Florida)

• A Picture Book, for Little Children (Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, ca. 1812) (illustrated HTML and page images at merrycoz.org)
• The Little Traveller (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1870) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible: or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented With Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth (10th edition; London: Printed for T. Hodgson, 1791)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1929), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and Present (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Harry Gidney Aldis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Books (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (Gutenberg text)
• Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders and Librarians (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1910), by Douglas Cockerell, ed. by W. R. Lethaby, illust. by Noel Rooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their Design and Construction (Washington, DC: Preservation Directorate, Collections Services, Library of Congress, 1994), by Lage Carlson, John Bertonaschi, Margot Healey, Lynn Kidder, Nancy Lev, Bob Muens, Carol Paulson-Crawford, and Carrie Beyer, illust. by Margaret R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Enemies of Books (1888 edition), by William Blades
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Book: Its History and Development (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1890), by Henri Bouchot
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at CMU

More items available under broader and related terms at left.