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• Barnum and Jumbo's ABC (London and New York: F. Warne, ca. 1882) (page images at Princeton)

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

• Circus Life and Circus Celebrities (London: Tinsley Bros., 1875), by Thomas Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wizard of Karres (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• The Secret Tomb (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1923), by Maurice Leblanc, illust. by George W. Gage
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• 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 Circus Procession (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1888)
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and page images

• The Bandwagon (partial serial archives)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1897), by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Girl's Own Book (18th edition, entirely re-edited; London: W. Tegg and Co., 1858), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Clara de Chatelain
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• ABC Fun (Los Angeles: Broadway Department Store, ca. 1910) (page images at Princeton)

• The Doll and Her Friends: or, Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina (fourth edition; London: Griffith and Farran, 1862), by Julia Charlotte Maitland, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Little Laura, the Kentucky Abolitionist: An Address to the Young Friends of the Slave (Newcastle: Printed by T. Pigg and Co., 1859) (page images at Cornell)

• Away We Go (The Road to Safety book A; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1938), by Horace Mann Buckley, Margaret L. White, Alice B. Adams, and Leslie R. Silvernale, illust. by Ottilie Foy (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Iliad for Boys and Girls, Told From Homer in Simple Language (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Homer (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy, by Padraic Colum, illust. by Willy Pogány
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Jack Wright and His Electric Air Rocket: or, The Boy Exile of Siberia (Boys' star library #341 by "Noname"; c1893), by Luis Senarens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Heroine of the White Nile, or, What a Woman Did and Dared: A Sketch of the Remarkable Travels and Experiences of Miss Alexandrine Tinné (New York: Phillips and Hunt; Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1881), by William Wells (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• The Story of David Livingstone, by Vautier Golding (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Told From Virgil in Simple Language (New York: Macmillan, 1942), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Virgil (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Two Tales (Bloomington, IN: Text Materials Program, Indiana University, 1963), by Mohammed Yassin Nassimi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, c1920), ed. by Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington, contrib. by Robert Russa Moton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ole Mammy's Torment (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1910 (c1897)), by Annie F. Johnston, illust. by Mary G. Johnston and Amy M. Sacker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ebony Jr! (1973-1985) (partial serial archives)
• Red, Yellow and Black: Tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans (New York and Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, c1918), by Sophia Lyon Fahs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Red, Yellow and Black: Tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans (New York and Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, c1918), by Sophia Lyon Fahs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz (New York: Random House, 1939), by Mabel Louise Robinson, illust. by Lynd Ward (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Farming for Boys: What They Have Done, and What Others May Do, in the Cultivation of Farm and Garden; How to Begin, How to Proceed, and What to Aim At (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), by Edmund Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of King Alfred of England (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872), by Jacob Abbott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• King Alfred of England (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1849), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• An Alphabet Allegorical, Alliterative and Amusing, Appreciable at All Ages (London: Effingham Wilson, 1871), by L. J Hill (page images at Princeton)
• A Bizarre Company (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1913), by G. M. C. Fry (page images at Princeton)

• Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers, by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)
• Book About America (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1850), by Rufus Merrill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Variety: or, Selections and Essays, Consisting of Anecdotes, Curious Facts, Interesting Narratives, with Occasional Reflections (Philadelphia: Published by James P. Parke, 1809), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
• Beauties of Sentiment: Or an Original Collection of Moral Anecdotes, for the Young (Boston: J. Punchard, 1831) (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts, Collected for the Amusement of Children (7th edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)

• Secrets of the Woods, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text)
• Secrets of the Woods (Boston and London: Ginn and Company, 1902), by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Burgess Animal Book for Children, by Thornton W. Burgess (Gutenberg text and audio reading)

• The Rambles of a Butterfly (London: Darton, 1819), by Mary Elliott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Robins (London: Griffith and Farran, 1869), by Sarah Trimmer, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at Google)

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