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Children's
Literature Collection
Compiled
from scans of original image rich children's
books. The World Public Library Children's
Literature Collection is a selected list of
the most popular children's books of all times.
We hope you and your family enjoy the collection.
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Bird
Children
Author:
Elizabeth Gordon
Description:
These editions of classic children's books from the
beginning of the 20th century feature four-color paintings
and poetry that teach children about nature.
Language: English
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Black
Beauty
Author:
Anna Sewell, Lisa R. Church
Illustrated by Lucy Corvino
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Fiction
Description:
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch
of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print
to date), comes a dazzling new series: " Classic
Starts." The stories are abridged; the quality
is complete. "Classic Starts" treats the world's
beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve--all
at an incomparable price. "Black Beauty "is
the classic horse story, a beautiful and touching tale
told by the title character himself. Set in Victorian
London, it follows Beauty's life and changing fortunes
as he moves from owner to owner. As the horse encounters
new experiences and new friends who reveal their own
histories, the story quietly paints a fascinating portrait
of how animals were treated during that era.
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Blue
Beard
Description:
Bluebeard was a wealthy aristocrat, feared because of
his "frightfully ugly" blue beard. He had
been married three times, but no one knew what had become
of his wives. He was therefore avoided by the local
girls. When Bluebeard visited one of his neighbours
and asked to marry one of her daughters, they were terrified,
and each tried to pass him on to the other. Eventually
he persuaded the younger daughter to marry him, and
after the ceremony she went to live with him in his
château.
Very
shortly after, however, Bluebeard announced that he
had to leave the country for a while; he gave over all
the keys of the chateau to his new wife, including the
key to one small room that she was forbidden to enter.
He then went away and left the house in her hands. Almost
immediately she was overcome with the desire to see
what the forbidden room held, and finally her visiting
sister convinced her to satisfy her curiosity and open
the room.
However,
the wife immediately discovered the room's horrible
secret: Its floor reeked of blood, and the dead bodies
of her husband's former wives hung on the walls. Horrified,
she locked the door, but blood had come onto the key
which would not wash off. Bluebeard returned unexpectedly
and immediately knew what his wife had done. In a blind
rage he threatened to behead her on the spot, and so
she locked herself in the highest tower with her sister.
While Bluebeard, sword in hand, tried to break down
the door, the sisters waited for their two brothers
to arrive. At the last moment, as Bluebeard was about
to deliver the fatal blow, the brothers broke into the
castle, and as he attempted to flee, they killed him.
He
left no heirs but his wife, who inherited all his great
fortune. She used part of it for a dowry to marry her
sister to the one that loved her, another part for her
brothers' captains commissions, and the rest to marry
a worthy gentleman who made her forget her ill treatment
by Bluebeard.
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Blue
Fairy Book
Author:
Andrew Lang, Henry
Illustrator: Henry Justice Ford, G. P.
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Nonfiction
Description:
The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series
and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken
from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but
exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy,
the Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions.
Here in one attractive paperbound volume - with enlarged
print - are Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltzkin, Beauty
and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Trusty
John, Jack and the Giantkiller, Goldilocks, and many
other favorites that have become an indispensable part
of our culture heritage.
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Fairy Book |
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Bubbles |
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Bairns |
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Tea Party |
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Bound
to Rise
Author:
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Key words and phrases: granton, asked harry, contrack,
forty dollars, leavitt, asked frank, pentland, ten dollars,
squire, lower village, walton, horatio alger, pocketbook,
harry thought, hiram, luke harrison, harry walton, hiram
walton, frank heath, benjamin franklin
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Boyhood
in Norway
Author:
Hjalmar Boyesen
Fiction / General
Description:
There had never been a masquerade in Bumlebro, and there
would not have been one now, if it had not been for
the enterprise of young Arctander and young Norbeck,
who had just returned from the military academy in the
capital, and were anxious to exhibit themselves to the
young girls in their glory.
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and Girls from Storyland |
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Bracebridge
Hall (1877)
Author:
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Language: English
Keywords: National characteristics, English
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Hall |
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Buddy
Jim
Author:
Elizabeth Gordon
Illustrator:
John Rae
Publisher: P.F. Volland Co. (1922)
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Cast
Upon the Breakers
Author:
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Literature / Classics / Criticism
Description:
A wonderful change came over Mike Flynn. Until he met
Rodney he seemed quite destitute of ambition. The ragged
and dirty suit which he wore as bootblack were the best
he had. His face and hands generally bore the marks
of his business, and as long as he made enough to buy
three meals a day, two taken at the Lodging House, with
something over for lodging, and an occasional visit
to a cheap theater, he was satisfied.
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Catriona-
Version 2
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
Library
of Congress Classification: PR
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction
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Catriona
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
Library
of Congress Classification: PR
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Children
Stories
Author:
Charles Dickens
Language:
English
Description:
Charles Dickens, who was born in 1812, is considered
one of the greatest of English novelists. Certainly
he is the most popular. Not only did he have an important
place in nineteenth-century literature, but he was also
an outspoken and influential critic of society. He wrote
fifteen novels as well as a number of stories and Christmas
books. In lots of these children were important characters.
In his day, no one understood children better than Dickens,
and he was the first writer to describe what children
thought and felt and to capture the way they spoke.
And he was not afraid to write about the hard and sad
lives that many children led.
In the stories in this book, which have been retold
by Charles Dickens's granddaughter, Mary Angela Dickens,
you will meet some of the children who appear in the
works of Charles Dickens.
There is Oliver Twist, who had many misadventures after
he escaped from the terrible workhouse where he was
born, and David Copperfield, the hero of Dickens's most
popular novel, much of which records his own experiences.
Little Paul Dombey is the young son of Dombey and Son,
and Amy is the heroine of Little Dorrit.
On these pages, you'll also make the acquaintance of
Tiny Tim, from A Christmas Carol, the fat boy from The
Pickwick Papers, Jenny Wren from Our Mutual Friend,
and the blind little toymaker from The Cricket on the
Hearth, and Little Nell and the marchioness from The
Old Curiosity Shop.
Howard Copping's wonderful paintings and drawings bring
Dickens's fascinating characters, both young and old,
to life.
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Children
of the Wigwam
Author:
Annie Chase
Key words: wigwam, flying fox, mamma, shooting star,
scalps, medicine lodge, wampum, yellow bird, leggins,
deer hunt, canoe, hunting ground, papa, war club, bruin,
trembling leaf, black duck, turtle dove
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First Book |
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| Christmas
Sketches |
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| Chronicles
of the Conquest of the Granada- Volume 1 |
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of the Conquest of the Granada- Volume 2 |
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Colonial
Children
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart, Blanche Evans Hazard
Fiction / General
Description:
Later my father married another woman who let me see
the difference between my own mother and a step-mother.
She did not seem to love me and turned my father against
me. Then my father sent me to school to a Welshman,
Mr. Rico, who kept the free school in the town of Lancaster.
He was exceedingly cruel and dealt unjustly with me.
This discouraged me so about school and lessons that
I remember wishing often times that I might take care
of pigs.
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Columbus
His Life and Voyages (1914)
Author:
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Language: English
Keywords: Columbus, Christopher; Palos (Spain) -- Description
and travel
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His Life and Voyages |
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Doyles Best Books (Volume 1) |
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Doyles Best Books (Volume 2) |
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Doyles Best Books (Volume 3) |
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Friends |
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Selected English Short Stories ([1914])
Digitizing
Sponsor: MSN
Language: English
Keywords: Short stories, English; Short stories, American
Scott,
Sir Walter. The two drovers. Wandering Willie's tale.--Lamb,
Charles. The witch aunt.--Irving, Washington. Rip Van
Winkle.--Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The snow image. The threefold
destiny. Dr. Heidegger's experiment. Howe's masquerade.--Disraeli,
Benjamin. Ixion in heaven.--Poe, E.A. The fall of the
House of Usher. The pit and the pendulum. Eleonora.--Gaskell,
Elizabeth C. The squire's story.--Brown, Dr. John. Rab
and his friends.--Dickens, Charles. The seven poor travellers.--Trollope,
Anthony. Malachi's cove.--Meredith, George. The punishment
of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the builder.--White,
W.H. Mr Whittaker's retirement.--Morris, William. The
story of the unknown church.--Garnett, Richard. The
dumb oracle.--Harte, F.B. Miggles. Tennessee's partner.
The Iliad of Sandy Bar. Mliss.--Stevenson, R.L. Markheim.
Thrawn Janet. Providence and the guitar.--Gissing, George.
Christopherson.--Coleridge, Mary. The king is dead,
long live the king.--Crackenthorpe, Hubert. Saint-Pé
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Daisy
Dingle
Published: Charles E. Graham & Co. (1910)
Description:
A collection of verses in full-color illustration.
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Dancing
Author:
Marguerite Wilson
A
complete guide to all dances.
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Danger!
and Other Stories (1918)
Author:
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Language: English
Danger!--One
crowded hour.--A point of view.--The fall of Lord Barrymore.--The
horror of the heights.--Borrowed scenes.--The surgeon
of Gaster Fell.--How it happened.--The prisoner's defence.--Three
of them: A chat about children, snakes, and zebus. About
cricket. Speculations. The leatherskin tribe
Date [c1919]
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Balfour a Sequel to Kidnapped |
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David
Crockett His Life and Adventures
Author:
John S. C. Abbott
Biography / Autobiography
Excerpt: While we were conversing, writes Crockett,
"Colonel Bowie had occasion to draw his famous
knife, and I wish I may be shot if the bare sight of
it wasn't enough to give a man of a squeamish stomach
the colic. He saw I was admiring it, and said he, 'Colonel,
you might tickle a fellow's ribs a long time with this
little instrument before you'd make make him laugh.'"
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Crockett His Life and Adventures |
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Author:
Carryl, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1841-1920
Language: English
Description:
On Christmas Eve, eight-year-old Davy drowses by the fireplace
reading Lewis Carroll's classic novel. He is suddenly
accosted by a kaleidoscopic Goblin who transforms the
family's Dutch clock into a boat, transporting Davy to
a weird land inhabited by storybook figures including
Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood (and his daughter...
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Author:
Carryl, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1841-1920
Language: English
Description:
On Christmas Eve, eight-year-old Davy drowses by the fireplace
reading Lewis Carroll's classic novel. He is suddenly
accosted by a kaleidoscopic Goblin who transforms the
family's Dutch clock into a boat, transporting Davy to
a weird land inhabited by storybook figures including
Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood (and his daughter...
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Denslows
Mother Goose
Author:
Anonymous
Illustrator: Denslow, William Wallace, 1856-1915
Language: English
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Mother Goose |
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Denslows
Night Before Christmas
Author:
Clement Clarke Moore
Illustrator: W. W. Denslow
Chronicle Books
Children's Books/Ages 4/8 Fiction
Description:
Written one Christmas Eve, this perennial classic was
intended to be a gift from a father to his children.
Instead, it has become a gift to the world. This Classic
Illustrated Edition features the original text and beautiful
reproductions of works by some of the most notable illustrators
of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Night Before Christmas |
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Dick
Sands the Boy Captain
Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Translator: Frewer, Ellen E.
Language: English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures:
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
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| Dolly
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Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz- Version 2
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Language: English
Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz Library of Congress Classification:
PZ
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and the Wizard in Oz- Version 2 |
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Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Language: English
Dorothy
and the Wizard in Oz Library of Congress Classification:
PZ
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Dorothys
Mystical Adventures in Oz
Author:
Robert J. Evans
Key words and phrases: saari, wicked witch, woodman,
uncle henry, woggle, president jackson, glinda, president
washington, scarecrow, beloved friends, munchkins, sitting
bull, clippity, higher understanding, earthman, tin
woodman, united states, princess saari, dorothy reminisces,
george washington
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Mystical Adventures in Oz |
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Down
Spider Web Lane
Author:
by Mary Dickerson Donahey
Publisher: E. Stern & Co (1909)
Language: English
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Spider Web Lane |
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Driven
from Home-Or Carl Crawfords Experience
Author:
Horatio Alger
Fiction / General
Description:
He congratulated himself upon being still the possessor
of twenty-five cents in silver. It was not much, but
it seemed a great deal better than being penniless.
A week before he would have thought it impossible that
such a paltry sum would have made him feel comfortable,
but he had passed through a great deal since then.
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Driven
from Home
Author:
Horatio Alger
Fiction / General
Description:
He congratulated himself upon being still the possessor
of twenty-five cents in silver. It was not much, but
it seemed a great deal better than being penniless.
A week before he would have thought it impossible that
such a paltry sum would have made him feel comfortable,
but he had passed through a great deal since then.
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Edithas
Burglar
Author:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrated by Henry Sandham
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Fiction
Description:
1888. Burnett, began as a novelist, but she is now best
remembered for her children's books including The Secret
Garden and Sara Crewe (which was later rewritten to
become The Little Princess). Her romance novels were
also quite popular during her lifetime. The story begins:
I will begin by saying that Editha was always rather
a queer little girl, and not much like other children.
She was not a strong, healthy little girl, and had never
been able to run about and play; and, as she had no
sisters, or brothers, or companions of her own size,
she was rather old-fashioned, as her aunts used to call
it. She had always been very fond of books, and had
learned to read when she was such a tiny child, that
I should almost be afraid to say how tiny she was when
she read her first volume through. Her papa wrote books
himself, and was also the editor of a newspaper; and,
as he had a large library, Editha perhaps read more
than was quite good for her. She lived in Long; and,
as her mamma was very young and pretty, and went out
a great deal, and her papa was so busy, and her governess
only came in the morning, she was left to herself a
good many hours in the day, and when she was left to
herself, she spent the greater part of her time in the
library reading her papa's big books, and even his newspapers.
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Eight
Hundred Leagues On the Amazon
Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Language: English
LoC Class PQ: Language: and Literatures: Romance literatures:
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
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Eneas
Africanus
By
Harry Stillwell Edwards
Key words: tommey, grey mare, eneas, major george, africanus,
race horse, marse, horse wagon, thomasville, dear major,
hyar, famous race, ergin, jefferson counties, macon,
marse george, lady chain, just sweethearts, maj. george,
tommey legion
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Esmerelda
By
Frances Hodgson
Fiction / General
Description:
At fifteen, she says, "I regretted that I was not
a genius; at five and twenty, I rejoice that I made
the discovery so early, and so gave myself time to become
grateful for the small gifts bestowed upon me. Why should
I eat out my heart with envy? Is it not possible that
I might be a less clever woman than I am, and a less
lucky one?"
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Essays
in the Art of Writing- Version 2 (1919)
Author:
Stevenson,Robert Louis.
Language: English
Keywords: LANGUAGE. LINGUISTICS. LITERATURE; Linguistics
and languages; General linguistics
Date 1919
LoC Class PN: Language: and Literatures: Literature:
General, Criticism, Collections
Subject: Literature -- History and Criticism
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Essays
in the Art of Writing- Version 3 (1919)
Author:
Stevenson,Robert Louis.
Language: English
Keywords: LANGUAGE. LINGUISTICS. LITERATURE; Linguistics
and languages; General linguistics
Date 1919
LoC Class PN: Language: and Literatures: Literature:
General, Criticism, Collections
Subject: Literature -- History and Criticism
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in the Art of Writing- Version 3 |
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| Essays
of Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Essays
of Travel
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
Library
of Congress Classification: PR
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