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• Soldiers of the Queen (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Harold Avery (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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• Manual Training-Play Problems: Constructive Work for Boys and Girls Based on the Play Interest (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by William S. Marten (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Illustrated Catalogue: Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of Toys, Novelties and Mail Order Merchandise (Stamford, CT: Ardee Mfg. Co., ca. 1904), by Ardee Manufacturing Company (page images at Harvard)

• Dolly (full serial archives)

• The Land of Lost Toys (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1900), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Nutcracker And Mouse-King (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1853), by E. T. A. Hoffmann, trans. by Mrs. Saint Simon, illust. by Albert H. Jocelyn (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of a Stuffed Elephant, by Laura Lee Hope, illust. by Harry L. Smith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Tiddledywink Tales (New York: R. H. Russell and Son, 1891), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Charles Howard Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real, by Margery Williams Bianco (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading)
• The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., ca. 1922), by Margery Williams Bianco, illust. by William Nicholson
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Winnie-the-Pooh (219th printing; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1961), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House at Pooh Corner (141st printing; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1951), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mollie and the Unwiseman (Philadelphia: G. T. Coates and Co., c1902), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Albert Levering and Clare Victor Dwiggins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1910), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Grace G. Drayton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Winnie-the-Pooh (5th printing; Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1931), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The House at Pooh Corner (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1928), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winnie-the-Pooh (large paper limited signed edition; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1926), by A. A. Milne, illust. by Ernest H. Shepard (page images at Princeton)

• The Tale of Two Bad Mice (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., 1904), by Beatrix Potter
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Twinklinka (Pannipitiya: Tikiri Publishers, 2008), by Janaki Sooriyarachchi (page images at childrenslibrary.org)
• Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (New York: Macmillan, 1943), by Rachel Field, illust. by Dorothy P. Lathrop (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Little Wooden Doll (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Margery Williams Bianco, illust. by Pamela Bianco (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dolly and I: A Story for Little Folks (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1864), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Live Dolls (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1901), by Josephine Scribner Gates, illust. by Virginia Keep (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Mince Pie (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1916), by Josephine Scribner Gates, illust. by John Rae (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble (initially published 1925; this edition Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1960), by Johnny Gruelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt (London et al.;: Longmans, Green, and Co., ca. 1905), by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (page images at Florida)
• How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1913), by Charlotte B. Herr, illust. by Frances Beem (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty (Philadelphia Public Ledger edition; Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., 1916), illust. by Frances Beem (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Our Children: Scenes From the Country and the Town (New York: Duffield and Co., 1923), by Anatole France, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Pansy Eyes: A Maid of Japan (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1922), by Besse Toulouse Sprague, illust. by Bess Devine Jewell (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Raggedy Ann Stories, by Johnny Gruelle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Raggedy Andy Stories: Introducing the Little Rag Brother of Raggedy Ann (originally published ca. 1919), by Johnny Gruelle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt (London et al.;: Longmans, Green, and Co., ca. 1905), by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (page images at Florida)

• The Golliwogg's Fox-Hunt (London et al.;: Longmans, Green, and Co., ca. 1905), by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (page images at Florida)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg", by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Art of Block Building (New York: The John Day Co., c1933), by Harriet M. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confidential Price-List and Telegraph Code (publisher's wholesale catalog; 1894), by McLoughlin Bros. (PDF at americanantiquarian.org)

• The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a "Golliwogg", by Bertha Upton, illust. by Florence K. Upton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Book of the Queen's Dolls' House (v1 of a 2-volume limited-edition set on the dollhouse and its library; London: Methuen and Co., 1924), ed. by Arthur Christopher Benson and Lawrence Weaver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Everybody's Book of the Queen's Dolls' House (second edition, condensed from the original limited edition of The Book of the Queens Dolls' House; London: The Daily Telegraph, and Methuen and Co., 1924), ed. by Arthur Christopher Benson, Lawrence Weaver, and F. V. Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dolls of Friendship: The Story of a Goodwill Project Between the Children of America and Japan, As Sponsored by the Committee on World Friendship Among Children (New York: Friendship Press, c1929), by Committee on World Friendship Among Children (multiple formats at archive.org)

• La Poupée Modèle (in French) (partial serial archives)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• The Teddy Bear ABC (Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., c1907), by Laura Rinkle Johnson, illust. by Margaret Landers Sanford (page images at Princeton)

• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Spinning Tops (reprint of new edition, 1910), by John Perry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Spinning Tops (reprint of new edition, 1910), by John Perry (multiple formats at archive.org)

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