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• Bikey the Skicycle, and the Other Tales of Jimmieboy (New York: Riggs Pub. Co., 1902), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Peter Newell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rollo at Play: or, Safe Amusements (new revised edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., c1855), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• When Are We Happiest? or, The Little Camerons (sixth edition; Boston: W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848), by Louisa C. Tuthill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• A Playful Path (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2014), by Bernie DeKoven (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007), by Tim Gill (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)

• American Journal of Play (full serial archives)

• Romps (including Romps in Town and Romps at the Seaside; London and New York: G. Routledge, ca. 1886), by Harry Furniss and Horace Lennard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Teaparties (New York et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., c1882), by Rosalie Vanderwater, illust. by Wilson De Meza (page images at Florida)

• American Journal of Play (full serial archives)

• American Journal of Play (full serial archives)

• American Journal of Play (full serial archives)

• Play Redux: The Form of Computer Games (c2010), by David Myers (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• The Art of Block Building (New York: The John Day Co., c1933), by Harriet M. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paper Sculpture: Its Construction and Uses for Display and Decoration (New York: Marquardt and Co., c1944), by Paul McPharlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paper Folding for the Mathematics Class (Washington: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, c1957), by Donovan A. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Art de Construire les Ballons en Papier (in French; Paris: C. Mendel, ca. 1884), by Eugène Fabry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)

• Art and Play Therapy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1954), by Emery I. Gondor (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thorny Path, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Pyxie: A Little Boy of the Pines (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Ethel Calvert Phillips, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blue Ghost Mystery (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960), by John Blaine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)
• Lenny, the Orphan: or, Trials and Triumphs (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1869), by Margaret Hosmer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tim and His Friends (London: Religious Tract Society, ca. 1892) (page images at Florida)

• The Dingo Boys, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by W. S. Stacey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Australia (complete; Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by Bracebridge Hemyng (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Shuttle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• The Shuttle (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1907), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Sea Change (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1884), by Flora L. Shaw, illust. by Mary Ellen Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Frank Merriwell on the Road: or, The All-Star Combination (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)

• The Rover Boys in the Mountains: or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune (1902), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• At Whispering Pine Lodge, by Lawrence J. Leslie (Gutenberg text)
• The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp, by Ross Kay (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls in the Mountains: or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1919), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Slade at Temple Camp, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Minna Raymond, or, Self-Sacrifice: A Tale for the Young (London and New York: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864), by Alfred Elwes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dickory Dock, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jessica's First Prayer (with color illustrations; London: Religious Tract Society. n.d.), by Hesba Stretton (PDF files with commentary at Roehampton)

• Andy Blake's Comet Coaster (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Leo Edwards, illust. by Bert Salg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Air Patrol: A Story of the North-West Frontier (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Herbert Strang, illust. by Cyrus Cuneo (Gutenberg text)

• The Flying Squad (London et al.: G. A. Harrap, 1933), by William Avery Bishop and Rothesay Stuart-Wortley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Aeroplane Boys Among the Clouds: or, Young Aviators in a Wreck (1912), by John Luther Langworthy (Gutenberg text)
• The Aeroplane Boys Flight: or, A Hydroplane Roundup, by John Luther Langworthy (Gutenberg text)
• The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing: or, Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics (1912), by John Luther Langworthy (Gutenberg text)
• Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic: or, The Longest Flight on Record, by Charles Amory Beach (Gutenberg text)
• The Airship Boys in Finance: or, The Flight of the Flying Cow (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1911), by H. L. Sayler, illust. by Sidney H. Riesenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burton of the Flying Corps (London: H. Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, c1916), by Herbert Strang, illust. by C. E. Brock (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane, or, Daring Adventures Over The Great Lakes, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text)
• The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship (Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue and Co., ca. 1911), by Margaret Burnham (Gutenberg text)
• The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly (1912), by Margaret Burnham, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings, by Margaret Burnham (Gutenberg text)
• L'Aventure de Nicolas Corbin (in French; Paris: Ch. Delagrave, 1890), by Maurice Champagne, illust. by René Giffey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Motor Boys on the Wing: or, Seeking the Airship Treasure (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1912), by Clarence Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motor Boys Over the Ocean: or, A Marvelous Rescue in Mid-Air (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1911), by Clarence Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motor Boys Over the Rockies: or, A Mystery of the Air (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1911), by Clarence Young (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• On a Torn-Away World, or, The Captives of the Great Earthquake, by Roy Rockwood
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• On the Edge of the Arctic: or, An Aeroplane in Snowland (author writing as Ashton Lamar; Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1913), by H. L. Sayler, illust. by N. P. Hall (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Round the World in Seven Days (1910), by Herbert Strang, illust. by A. C. Michael (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tom Swift and His Airline Express: or, From Ocean to Ocean by Daylight (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Victor Appleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Airship Boys in the Great War: or, The Rescue of Bob Russell (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1915), by De Lysle F. Cass, illust. by H. O. Kennedy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Airship Boys' Ocean Flyer: or, New York to London in Twelve Hours (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1911), by H. L. Sayler, illust. by Sidney H. Riesenberg (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air at Cape Peril (Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1921), by Gordon Stuart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air at Eagle Camp (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by N. P. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air at Greenwood School (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by N. P. Hall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land (Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by N. P. Hall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island, by Gordon Stuart (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy Scouts of the Air with Pershing (Chicago : Reilly and Lee Co., c1919), by Gordon Stuart, illust. by Joseph W. Wyckoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron, by Robert Shaler (Gutenberg text)
• The Flying Girl (published under "Edith Van Dyne" pseudonym; Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1911), by L. Frank Baum, illust. by Josef Pierre Nuyttens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motor Boys in the Clouds: or, A Trip for Fame and Fortune (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1910), by Clarence Young, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Motor Boys Under the Sea: or, From Airship to Submarine (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., c1914), by Clarence Young, illust. by Dick Richards (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tom Swift and His Air Scout, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets: or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions (New York : Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Victor Appleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Swift and His Sky Racer, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)
• Linda Carlton, Air Pilot (Akron and New York: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1931), by Edith Lavell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Dashaway, Air Champion: or, Wizard Work in the Clouds (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1915), by Roy Rockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boy Scouts in an Airship: or, The Warning From the Sky, by G. Harvey Ralphson (Gutenberg text)

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