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Pets -- Juvenile poetry

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• Pets
• Domestic animals -- Juvenile poetry
• Juvenile poetry

• Plish and Plum (Boston: Roberts Bros., ca. 1883), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Cats Cradle: Rhymes for Children (New York: R. Worthington, 1881), by Edward Willett, illust. by Charles Kendrick (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

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

• Domestic Pets: Their Habits and Management (London: Grant and Griffith, 1851), by Mrs. Loudon, illust. by Harrison Weir (page images at Google)
• My Strange Pets, and Other Memories of Country Life, by Richard Bell (HTML at Forgotten Futures)

• Rex (original magazine version), by D. H. Lawrence (HTML at Virginia)

• My Pets (London: Methuen and Co., c1909), by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by A. R. Allinson, illust. by V. Lecomte
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Curlytops and Their Pets: or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1921), by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Julia Greene (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Cat Stories (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1886), by Helen Hunt Jackson, illust. by Addie Ledyard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cat Stories (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1895), by Helen Hunt Jackson, illust. by Addie Ledyard (page images at Florida)
• Paddy O'Learey and His Learned Pig (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1895), by Elizabeth W. Champney, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (page images at Florida)

• The Square Book of Animals (New York: R. H. Russell, 1900), by William Nicholson and Arthur Waugh (page images at LOC)
• Country Friends (London: E. Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co, ca. 1901), illust. by William Foster (PDF with commentary at Toronto Public Library)

• Cats Castle Taken by the Rats (no title page; ca. 1818) (PDF at Toronto Public Library)
• Old Dame Trot and Her Comical Cat (London: S. Marks and Sons, 1859)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple files at archive.org
• Peppermint Puss (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1914), by Florence L. Notter (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Punky Dunk and the Gold Fish (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1912) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Punky Dunk and the Mouse (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1912) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Punky Dunk and the Spotted Pup (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1912) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pussies and Puppies (London: S.W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1899), by Louis Wain (page images at Florida)

• The Louis Wain Kitten Book (ca. 1903), by Louis Wain (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., n.d.), by Oliver Goldsmith, illust. by Randolph Caldecott
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gingerbread Dog (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., c1914), by Florence L. Notter (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Pinky Winky Dog Book (Boston: Marks Bros. Co., c1924), by Dorothy Whipple Fry, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Plish and Plum (Boston: Roberts Bros., ca. 1883), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Punky Dunk and the Spotted Pup (Chicago: P. F. Volland and Co., c1912) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pussies and Puppies (London: S.W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1899), by Louis Wain (page images at Florida)
• 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 Centaur (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by May Swenson, illust. by Sherry Meidell (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878), by William Cowper, illust. by Randolph Caldecott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Diverting History of John Gilpin: Shewing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again (New York et al.: Routledge and Sons, ca. 1890), by William Cowper, illust. by H. Rosa (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Night Fall in the Ti-Tree (Melbourne: Sign of the Rabbit, 1905), by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague (page images at childrenslibrary.org)
• The Bandit Bunny Alphabet and Other Stories (1901), by Charles M. Snyder, illust. by George Reiter Brill (page images at Princeton)

• Ballad of the Lost Hare (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1882), by Margaret Sidney (page images at LOC)

• Darius Green and His Flying-Machine (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by J. T. Trowbridge, illust. by Wallace Goldsmith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nine Niggers More (with music; New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1880)
  • page images at Florida
  • page images at HathiTrust; lacks final pages in Florida's copy

• A Funny Book About the Ashantees (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), by Ernest Henry Griset (page images at Florida)

• Alice in Wonderland Rhymes (Stampkraft book, with poster stamps applied to the relevant pages; New York: United Art Pub. Co., c1915), by Helen H. Anspacher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Plish and Plum (Boston: Roberts Bros., ca. 1883), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Animals Noah Forgot, by A. B. Paterson (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• Denslow's Animal Fair (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1904), by W. W. Denslow (page images at Florida)
• Eric's Book of Beasts: Done in Water-Colors, and Accompanied With Appropriate Jingles (San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1912), by David Starr Jordan, illust. by Shimada Sekko (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Farmer Fox, and Other Rhymes (Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co., c1904), by L. J. Bridgman (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Johnny Crow's Garden: A Picture Book (first edition, 1903), by L. Leslie Brooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Johnny Crow's Garden: A Picture Book (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., c1903), by L. Leslie Brooke (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Jolly Animal ABC (New York: McLoughin Bros., ca. 1890) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Laugh and Learn ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1900) (page images at Princeton)
• The Peacock at Home, and Other Poems (London: Printed for John Murray and J. Harris; Edinburgh: Manners and Miller, 1809), by Catherine Ann Turner Dorset (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Peacock "At Home", by A Lady; To Which is Added The Butterflies Ball (London: J. Harris, ca.1824), by Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe (page images with commentary in the UK)
• 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (New York: F. Warne and Co., c1922), by Beatrix Potter
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Circus Procession (New York: McLoughlin Bros., c1888)
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• Comic Animals and Their Adventures; With Alphabet and Rhymes (ca. 1880), illust. by George H. Thompson and Louis Wain (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Over in the Meadow (text of her counting rhyme, with sample cover illustrations from modern editions), by Olive A. Wadsworth (HTML with commentary at spoonercentral.com)
• Ballad of the Lost Hare (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1882), by Margaret Sidney (page images at LOC)
• The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • page images at ufl.edu
• More Beasts (For Worse Children) (London; Duckworth and Co., n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (London; Duckworth, n.d.), by Hilaire Belloc, illust. by B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.