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

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• On some of the books for children of the last century : with a few words on the philanthropic publisher of St. Paul's Churchyard / (London : Printed by Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, at the sign of the Bible and Sun, West corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1886), by Charles Welsh, Sette of Odd Volumes (Book club), and Farran Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sources where new trade books may be examined. ([New York?, 1963?]), by American Book Publishers Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effect of the physical make-up of a book upon children's selection, (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins press, 1922), by Florence Eilau Bamberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steps along the way : significant books for children, 1901-1960 / ([Baltimore, Md.] : Enoch Pratt Free Library, [1961]), by Enoch Pratt Free Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas books for children recommended by the Cleveland Public Library., by issuing body Cleveland Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art for children as shown by modern European picture books; ([Brooklyn, Brooklyn museum press, 1926]), by Brooklyn Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books for children : a list from which you can select gifts for your children which will open to them the world of delight to be found in good books / (New York : E.P. Dutton, [1913?]), by E.P. Dutton (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• About books for children. (New York : Oxford University Press, 1949), by Dorothy Neal White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early American children's books 1682-1840. The private collection of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, on exhibition at the New York public library, 1927. ([New York, Printed at the New York public library, 1927]), by A. S. W. Rosenbach and New York Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's books and their illustrators. ([New York, J. Lane, 1897?]), by Gleeson White (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Catalogue of Books for the Young, by E.P. Dutton (Firm) and Farran Griffith (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• Verbum sempiternum (Printed at London : By Jo. Beale for John Hamman, 1616.), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Reference tools 1968-1969; a bibliography based on the acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center : from January 1968 through July 1969. ([Washington] : U.S. Office of Education; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off], [1969]), by Caroline Stanley and Educational Materials Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excellence on a budget : school library services with limited resources : resource lists for use in school libraries / ([Washington, D.C.] : Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education, [1987]), by Anne J. Mathews and United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies: Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
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• Pinnock's first catechism for children [electronic resource] : containing such things as are necessary to be known at an early age / (Halifax, N.S. : C.H. Belcher, 1837), by W. Pinnock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of wonders [electronic resource] : gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions ... / (Toronto : Bureau of Industrial Education, 1916), by Rudolph J. Bodmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The little world of knowledge, arranged numerically : designed for exercising the memory, and as an introduction to the arts and sciences, history, natural philosophy, belles lettres, &c. &c. &c. / (London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, 1826), by Charlotte Matilda Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A popular dictionary of facts and knowledge for the use of schools and students / (London : Printed for Poole and Edwards, 1827), by R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through the year with World book monthly service bulletins. (Chicago : Quarrie Corp., c1948), by inc World Book Encyclopedia and Field Enterprises Educational Corporation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The child's catechism of common things / (New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1880), by John Denison Champlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our wonder world : a library of knowledge. (Chicago ; Boston : G.L. Shuman & Co., c1921), by G. L. Shuman & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A popular dictionary of facts and knowledge for the use of schools and students [microform] / (London : Printed for Poole and Edwards, 1827), by R. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children's picture-book of useful knowledge, (London, Bell and Daldy, 1862), by M. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Popular Dictionary of Facts and Knowledge, for the use of schools and students ... (London : Poole and Edwards, 1827), by S. Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Youth's cyclopaedia : a ready reference library ... / (Chicago : C. B. Beach & co., 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joh. Amos Comenii orbis sensualium pictus : hoc est omnium principalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura = Joh. Amos Comenius's visible world : or, A nomenclature, and pictures, of all the chief things that are in the world, and of men's employments therein : in above 150 cuts / (London : S. Leacroft, 1777), by Johann Amos Comenius and Charles Hoole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Child's guide to knowledge (London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1868), by R. Ward (page images at Florida)

• 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)
• Derevannyĭ orel / (Moskva : Izd. Ī. Knebelʹ, [1909]), by Heorhiĭ Ivanovych Narbut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhuravlʹ i t︠s︡apli︠a︡ ; Medvi︠e︡dʹ / (Moskva : Izd. I. Knebelʹ, [1907?]), by Heorhiĭ Ivanovych Narbut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ḥad gadya / (Kiev : Kultur-Lige, 1919), by El Lissitzky and Ḳooperaṭiver farlag "Ḳulṭur-lige" (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Azbuka v kartinakh /, by Alexandre Benois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My own fairy book : namely certain Chronicles of Pantouflia, as notably the adventures of Prigio, prince of that country, and of his son Ricardo, with an excerpt from the Annals of Scotland, as touching Ker of Fairnilee, his sojourn with the Queen of Faery / (New York : Longmans, Green ; Bristol : J.W. Arrowsmith, 1906), by Andrew Lang, E. A Lemann, T. Scott, and Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The good genius, that turned everything into gold : or, The queen bee and the magic dress : a Christmas fairy tale / (New York : Harper, [ca. 1850]), by Henry Mayhew, Augustus Mayhew, and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peryshko Finista I︠A︡sna-sokola [electronic resource] / ([S.-Peterburg] : Ėkspedit︠s︡īi︠a︡ zagot. gos. bumag, 1902), by A. N. Afanasʹev, illust. by Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Blaubart : ein Märchen / (München : Christian Kaiser, [1845]), by Franz Pocci (page images at HathiTrust)
• ABC, an alphabet / ([Lake Oswego, Or. ; Blackwood, N.J. : Blackwell's, 1996]), by Georgie Gaskin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The baby's opera : a book of old rhymes with new dresses / (New York : McLoughlin Bros., [190-?]), by Walter Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skazka ob Ivani︠e︡-t︠s︡arevichi︠e︡, zhar-ptit︠s︡i︠e︡ i o si︠e︡rom volki︠e︡ / ([Saint Petersburg, Russia] : Izd. Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gos. bumag, [1901]), by Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin and A. N. Afanasʹev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• T︠S︡arevna-li︠a︡gushka / ([Saint Petersburg, Russia] : Ėkspedit︠s︡īi︠a︡ zagotovlenii︠a︡ gos. bumag, [1901]), by A. N. Afanasʹev and Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peryshko Finista i︠a︡sna-sokola / ([S.-Peterburg] : Ėkspedit︠s︡īi︠a︡ zagotovlenii︠a︡ gos. bumag, [1902]), by A. N. Afanasʹev and Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Marʹi︠a︡ Morevna / ([Saint Petersburg, Russia] : Izd. Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gos. bumagʺ, [1903]), by Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My very own fairy stories / (Chicago ; New York ; Toronto : Published by P.F. Volland Company, c1917), by Johnny Gruelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skazka o t︠s︡ari︡e︡ Saltani︠e︡ : o syni︠e︡ ego slavnom i moguchem bogatyri︠e︡, kni︠a︡zi︠e︡ Gvidoni︠e︡ Saltanovichi︠e︡, i o prekrasnoĭ t︠s︡arevni︠e︡ Lebedi / ([Moscow] : Izd. Ėkspedit︠s︡īi zagotovlenīi︠a︡ gos. bumag, 1905), by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrating children's books: history, technique, production. (New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, [1963]), by Henry C. Pitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrated editions of children's books : a selected list / (Pittsburgh : Carnegie Library, 1923), by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Elva Sophronia Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• At Great-Aunt Martha's / (London : Castell Brothers Ltd. ; New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1904]), by Kathleen Ainslie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The wonder clock, or Four and twenty marvelous tales : being one for each hour of the day / (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1897), by Howard Pyle and Katharine Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skazka o zolotom pi︠e︡tushki︠e︡ / (V Moskvi︠e︡ : A.A. Levenson, [1903]), by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, illust. by Boris Zvorykin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Under the window : pictvres & rhymes for children /, by Kate Greenaway and Edmund Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A child's garden of verses / (Chicago, Ill. : M. A. Donahue, 1916), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Myrtle Sheldon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Max und Moritz : eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen / (München : Verlag von Braun und Schneider, [1885 or 1886?]), by Wilhelm Busch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A wonder-book for girls and boys / (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, c1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasilisa Prekrasnai︠a︡ /, by A. N. Afanasʹev, illust. by Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich Bilibin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Marquis of Carabas' picture book : containing Puss in Boots, Old Mother Hubbard, Valentine and Orson, the absurd ABC / (London (The Broadway, Ludgate) ; New York (416 Broome Street) : George Routledge and Sons, [1874]), by Walter Crane, Sarah Catherine Martin, and Edmund Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonder clock, or, Four & twenty marvelous tales : being one for each hour of the day / (New York : Harper & Brothers, 1887), by Howard Pyle and Katharine Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child-Land: Picture-Pages for the Little Ones, illust. by Oscar Pletsch and M. Richter (Gutenberg ebook)
• When phantasie takes flight, by Suzan A. Alteri, John Ingram, Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler, and George A. Smathers Libraries (host institution) (page images at Florida)

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