Children's literature
Here are entered collections of works published for children, including literary works, nonliterary works, or both. Works on books for children considered as physical objects are entered under Children's books. 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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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Children's literature -- Authorship
- Children's literature -- Bibliography
- Children's literature -- England
- Children's literature -- History and criticism
- Children's literature -- Illustrations
- Children's literature -- Periodicals
- Children's literature -- Publishing
- Children's literature -- Stories, plots, etc.
- Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Children's literature in series
- Children's literature, American
- Children's literature, Canadian
- Children's literature, English
- Children's plays
- Children's poetry
- Children's stories
- Christian literature for children
- Prohibited books
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From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse (book 5 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago and Toronto: The Bookhouse for Children, c1921), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)- Baby World: Stories, Rhymes, and Pictures for Little Folks, ed. by Mary Mapes Dodge (page images at MOA)
- The Children's Book (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1915), ed. by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journeys through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (10 volumes; Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Co., c1909), ed. by Charles Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Junior Classics (10 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1918), ed. by William Patten, contrib. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson (multiple formats at archive.org, HathiTrust, and Gutenberg)
- The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse (book 4 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Types of Children's Literature: A Collection of the World's Best Literature for Children, For Use in Colleges, Normal Schools and Library Schools, ed. by Walter Barnes (Gutenberg text)
- The Latch Key of My Bookhouse (book 6 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1921), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
- Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
- A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)
- The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C.L. Dodgson), by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, contrib. by Lewis Carroll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
- Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
- Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
- Children as Authors (ca. 1936), by Utica Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
- Little Folks (American children's magazine published by Cassino from 1897-1926) (partial serial archives)
- St. Nicholas (partial serial archives)
- The Boy's Own Annual (partial serial archives)
- John Martin's Book (partial serial archives)
- The Boy's Own Magazine (partial serial archives)
- Forrester's Boys' and Girls' Magazine, and Fireside Companion (partial serial archives)
- Solstrålen: Sagostundsbarnens Tidning (children's magazine in Swedish; issues online 1906-1909) (partial serial archives)
- The Student and Schoolmate (partial serial archives)
- Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
- The Children's Encyclopaedia (8 volumes; London: Educational Book Co., ca. 1910), ed. by Arthur Mee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Pearl Story Book: A Collection of Tales, Original and Selected (1850), by Mrs. Colman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's Books, 1780-1918 (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2009), by David Blamires
- 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
- Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1923), ed. by Walter De la Mare, illust. by Alec Buckels (page images at HathiTrust)
- Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), ed. by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls (New York: The Macmillan Company, c1922), ed. by Sara Teasdale, illust. by Dugald Stewart Walker (page images at archive.org)
- Betty, Bobby and Bubbles (Chicago et al.: P.F. Volland and Co., c1921), by Edith Mitchell, illust. by Janet Laura Scott (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Happy Hour Stories (Cincinnati et al.: American Book Co., c1921), by M. Genevieve Silvester and Edith Marshall Peter (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- All Round the Year, by E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke, illust. by H. Bellingham Smith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Aunt Effie's Rhymes for Little Children ("Aunt Effie" believed to be Saxby; London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860), by Aunt Effie, contrib. by Jane Euphemia Saxby, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne and Matthew Urlwin Sears
- Aunt Louisa's Child's Delight: Comprising Rip Van Winkle, Yankee Doodle, Pocahontas, Putnam (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1870), contrib. by L. Valentine, Geo. P. Webster, Washington Irving, and Paul Pryor, illust. by Thomas Nast and Justin H. Howard (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Ballad of the Prince (New York: R. H. Russell, 1900), by Alice Archer Sewall James (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, ed. by S. Baring-Gould (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- Childhood Songs, by Lucy Larcom (HTML and TEI at Michigan)
- The Crescent Moon: Child-Poems, by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Dan Drake's Rhymes and Dame Duck's Jingles (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1859) (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Eventide Songs and Sketches (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., n.d.), ed. by E. Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
- Father Goose: His Book, by L. Frank Baum (HTML at Guy-Perkins School District)
- Hymns and Fire-Side Verses (London: Darton and Clark, 1839), by Mary Howitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hymns and Rhymes for Home and School (Boston: Nichols and Hall, 1875), ed. by C. S. Guild
- The Infants' Delight (Lee and Shepard book of children's poetry, possibly reprinted from 1870s periodical of same name) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Landscape and Song, ed. by E. Nesbit (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Little Lads (Akron, OH: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1904), contrib. by George Cary Eggleston, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Frances A. Humphrey, Madge Elliot, A. D. T. Whitney, and Mary D. Brine (multiple formats at Indiana)
- The Lullaby: With Original Engravings, by John R. Bolles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Nursery Rhymes (London: Printed for the booksellers, ca. 1780) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- On the Tree-Top: Children's Favorite Stories (Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1891), contrib. by Clara Doty Bates, illust. by Frank T. Merrill and Edmund H. Garrett (page images at Florida)
- On the Way to Wonderland (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., c1885), by Clara Doty Bates (page images at Florida)
- A Pocketful of Posies (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1902), by Abbie Farwell Brown, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (page images at HathiTrust)
- Poems for Our Children, Including Mary Had a Little Lamb: Designed for Families, Sabbath Schools, and Infant Schools, Written to Inculcate Moral Truths and Virtuous Sentiments (reprint of 1830 collection (only "part first" published), with added preface; Boston: R. W. Hale, 1916), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, contrib. by Richard Walden Hale (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children, ed. by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Simple Poems for Infant Minds (New York: Kiggins and Kellogg, ca. 1848), illust. by Benjamin F. Pease and William Barritt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sir Hornbook: or, Childe Launcelot's Expedition: A Grammatico-Allegorical Ballad, by Thomas Love Peacock (HTML at thomaslovepeacock.net)
- Songs of Sixpence (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), by Abbie Farwell Brown, illust. by Emma Troth (page images at HathiTrust)
- Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes For Children (New York: G. Routledge and sons, ca. 1880), by Kate Greenaway (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes For Children (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The World Turned Upside Down: or, No News, and Strange News (York: J. Kendrew, ca. 1820)
- Humpty Dumpty and Some Other Funny People from Mother Goose (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by George M. Richards (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1920), by Jessie E. Sampter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books for Children, by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, ed. by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg text)
- The Buckle-My-Shoe Picture Book: Containing One, Two, Buckle My Shoe; A Gaping-Wide-Mouth-Waddling-Frog; My Mother (London and New York: John Lane, ca. 1910), by Walter Crane, contrib. by Ann Taylor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865), illust. by H. L. Stephens (page images at LOC)
- Eugene Field Reader (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, c1905), by Eugene Field, ed. by Alice Louise Harris, contrib. by Frank W. Cooley (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Graded Poetry: Seventh Year, ed. by Katherine Devereux Blake and Georgia Alexander (Gutenberg text)
- Hymns for Childhood on the Works of Nature, and Other Subjects, For the Use of Children (Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1840), by Mrs. Hemans (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Pinafore Palace (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1907), ed. by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith
- The Real Mother Goose, illust. by Blanche Fisher Wright
- Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse (book 3 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Up One Pair of Stairs of My BookHouse (book 2 of original "My Book House" series; Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, c1920), ed. by Olive Beaupré Miller
- The Wonder Clock, by Howard Pyle and Katharine Pyle (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1920; With an Appendix Containing a Few Well-Known Poems in Other Languages (sixth edition, 2 volumes; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1937), ed. by Burton Egbert Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A, Apple Pie, by Kate Greenaway
- A, Apple Pie (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1886), by Kate Greenaway (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Floral Fairies: The Mistletoes' Pranks (New York: Floral Fairies Pub. Co., 1913), by Gertrude Ina Robinson, illust. by F. A. Carter (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Jolly Adventures of Billy Van and Betty Camp (Indianapolis: Van Camp Products Co., c1923), by Edward M. Carney, illust. by Carl Mueller
- Pansy's Sunday Book, by Famous American Writers (Boston: Lothrop Pub. Co., c1895), ed. by Isabella Macdonald Alden (multiple formats at archive.org)
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