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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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Little Miss Muffet

Key words and phrases: muffet, miss muffet, isobel, lady sarah, virgie, returned miss, bobus, returned mrs, effie, observed mrs, beresford, observed miss, hawthorns, miss eyes, gussie, uncle norbert, herr spider, dr. hawkins, monte carlo, malcolm gordon

Little Miss Muffet
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Little Mr Thimblefinger

Author: Joel Chandler Harris

Key words: drusilla, replied mrs, terrapin, tar baby, buster, remarked mrs, gwine, silver wire, susy, exclaimed mrs, sweetest, handsome son, valentine, took keen, buzzard, mrs. meadows, sweetest susan, buster john, granny grim, mrs. bear

Little Mr Thimblefinger
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Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Fiction

Description: One is named Olite, and one Udent and one Ertinent, and they have no respect for anyone or anything. If strangers pass through the valley, the Imps jeer at them and make horrid faces and call names, and often they push travelers out of the path or throw stones at them. Whenever Imp Olite or Imp Udent or Imp Ertinent comes here to bother us, I and my family run into the house and lock all the doors and windows, and we dare not venture out again until the Imps have gone away.

Little Wizard Stories of Oz
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Little Women

Author: Louisa May Alcott
Literature / Classics / Criticism

Description: The lives and adventures of the four March sisters--Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy--are set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century New England while their father is off fighting in the Civil War. Reprint.

Little Women
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Living English Poets A. Conan Doyle

Selected works of A. Conan Doyle

Author: A. Conan Doyle

Living English Poets a Conan Doyle
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Lodusky

Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Fiction / General

Description: A touching story in Burnett's signature style. She writes about intricate human relations and emotions, especially love, with great compassion. Tender and appealing!

Lodusky
London_Town01

London Town

Author: Thos. Crane, Ellen Houghton

Illustrator: Thos. Crane & Ellen Houghton

London Town
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Love-Songs of Childhood

Author: Eugene Field
Poetry

Description: Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill! Mighty glad I ain't a girl - ruther be a boy, Without them sashes, curls, an' things that's worn by Fauntleroy! Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake.

Love-Songs of Childhood
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Lullaby Land

Author: Eugene Field
Illustrator: Charles Robinson

Compiled by Kenneth Grahame

Key words and phrases: dinkey, eugene field, blynken, dutch clock, wynken, boy blue, dearie, red hen, weeny, wooden shoe, heigho, plum tree, shoon, calico cat, balow, eye town, mistress sans, boston beacon, st. didy

Lullaby Land
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Macaire

: (1895)

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English


Date 1895

Macaire
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Madam How and Lady Why

Author: Charles Kingsley
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Nonfiction

Description: 1902. First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children.

Contents: The Glen; Earthquakes; Volcanos; Transformations of a Grain of Soil; The Ice Plough; The True Fairy Tale; The Chalk Carts; Madam How's Two Grandsons; The Coral Reef; Field and Wild; The World's End; Homeward Bound.

Madam How and Lady Why
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Mahomet and His Successors- Volume 2

Author: Washington Irving
Biography / Autobiography

Description: 1850 and 1885. Washington Irving was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and is considered to be the Father of the American Short Story. Two tales from Irving. Mahomet is a careful presentation of the life, beliefs, and character of Mohammed.

Mahomet and His Successors- Volume 2
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Many Swans Sun Myth of the North American Indians

Author: Amy Lowell
Ethnic Issues

Excerpt: Then Grass-Bush-and-Blossom wrapped her cedar-bark skirt about her and sprang up, and her silver and copper ornaments rang sweetly with her moving. The-One-Who-Walks-All-Over-the-Sky looked at Many Swans. "You have not waited," she said. "Alas! It is an evil beginning. My son, my son, I wished to love you." But he was glad and thought: "It is a querulous old woman, I shall heed her no more than the snapping of a fire of dead twigs."

Many Swans Sun Myth of the North American Indians
Maori_Folk_Tales_the_Creation_of_Woman01

Maori Folk Tales the Creation of Woman

Compiled and Translated by Mere Caeser

Maori Folk Tales the Creation of Woman
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Marigold Garden

Author: Kate Greenaway

Marigold Garden
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Marigolds Pony

A Bedtime Story

Author: Howard B. Famous

Fully illustrated

Marigolds Pony
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Marm Lisa

Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Fiction / General

Excerpt: Such was not the case, however. After luncheon, Marm Lisa had washed the twins' hands and faces in the back-yard as usual, and left them for an instant to get a towel from the kitchen. When she returned, she looked blankly about, for there was no sign of the two dripping faces and the uplifted streaming hands. They had a playful habit of hiding from her, knowing that in no other way could they make her so unhappy.

Marm Lisa
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Mary Louise

Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Language: English

Library of Congress Classification: PS

 

Mary Louise
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Master of Ballantrae

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English

Library of Congress Classification: PR

 

Master of Ballantrae
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Memories and Portraits- Version 2

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English

Note: --I. The foreigner at home. --II. Some college memories. --III. Old mortality. --IV. A college magazine. --V. An old Scotch gardener. --VI. Pastoral. --VII. The manse. --VIII. Memoirs of an islet. --IX. Thomas Stevenson. --X. Talk and talkers, first paper. --XI. Talk and talkers: second paper. --XII. The character of dogs. --XIII. "A penny plain and two-pence coloured." --XIV. A gossip on a novel of Dumas's. --XV. A gossip on romance. --XVI. A humble remonstrance

 

Memories and Portraits- Version 2
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Memories and Portraits (1911)

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English

Note: --I. The foreigner at home. --II. Some college memories. --III. Old mortality. --IV. A college magazine. --V. An old Scotch gardener. --VI. Pastoral. --VII. The manse. --VIII. Memoirs of an islet. --IX. Thomas Stevenson. --X. Talk and talkers, first paper. --XI. Talk and talkers: second paper. --XII. The character of dogs. --XIII. "A penny plain and two-pence coloured." --XIV. A gossip on a novel of Dumas's. --XV. A gossip on romance. --XVI. A humble remonstrance


Date 1911

Memories and Portraits
Men_of_Iron001

Men of Iron

Author: Howard Pyle
Children's 12 and up
Fiction / History

Description: Master storyteller Howard Pyle at his best, incorporating fascinating historical information about life in a medieval castle, knighthood, and chivalry into the fast-moving and entertaining story of young Myles Falworth's fight to restore his family's rights and good name. This classic story remains a great favorite not only among young readers but also among educators because of the author's effortless way of teaching great virtues such as courage, loyalty, steadfastness, and generosity. Unabridged republication of the edition originally published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1892.

Men of Iron
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Merry Alpha
Merry_Alphabet_A_to_Z01
Merry Alphabet A to Z
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Merry Childhood

Love is the sunlight that glows about them, laughs in their faces, and shines from out them.

Merry Childhood
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Merry Little People
Merry_Men-_Version_2001
Merry Men- Version 2

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English

Library of Congress Classification: PR


LoC Class PR: Language: and Literatures: English literature
Subject: Fiction

Merry Men- Version 2
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Merry Men

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English

Library of Congress Classification: PR


LoC Class PR: Language: and Literatures: English literature
Subject: Fiction

Merry Men
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Michael Strogoff

Author: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Language: English
LoC Class PQ: Language: and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject: Fiction

Michael Strogoff
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Michael Strogoff or the Courier of the Czar

Author: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Language: English
LoC Class PQ: Language: and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject: Fiction

 

Michael Strogoff or the Courier of the Czar
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Miss Billy-Married

Author: Eleanor H. Porter
Fiction / General

Excerpt: Billy did not leave the Strata this time. Before twenty-four hours had passed, the last cherished fragment of Mr. William Henshaw's possessions had been carefully carried down the imposing steps of the Beacon Hill boarding-house under the disapproving eyes of its bugle-adorned mistress, who found herself now with a month's advance rent and two vacant "parlors" on her hands.

Miss Billy-Married
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Miss Billy

Author: Eleanor H. Porter
Fiction / General

Excerpt: By breakfast time Bertram with the avowed intention of giving "the little chap half a show," had the room cleared for action; and after that the whole house was called upon for contributions toward the room's adornment. And most generously did most of the house respond. Even Dong Ling slippered up-stairs and presented a weird Chinese banner which he said he was "velly much glad" to give.

Miss Billy
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Miss Billys Decision

Author: Eleanor Hodgman Porter

Key words and phrases: greggory, billy turned, arkwright, uncle william, bertram, mary jane, henshaw, billy gave, operetta, billy knew, neilson, billy went, hartwell, brown beard, billy, william henshaw, methuselah john, corey hill, dong ling, hugh calder

Miss Billys Decision
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Miss Muffets Christmas Party

Author: Samuel McChord Crothers
Language: English

Miss Muffets Christmas Party
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Mohamet and His Successors- Volume 2 (1868)

Author: Washington Irwing
Language: English

Mohamet and His Successors- Volume 2
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Molly Whuppie and the Double-Faced Giant
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Moral Emblems

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English

Library of Congress Classification: PR

 

Moral Emblems
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More New Arabian Nights the Dynamiter the Story of a Lie

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature / Classics / Criticism

Description: 1914. Illustrated. Stevenson is best remembered for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Contents: The Dynamiter (Written in collaboration with Mrs. Stevenson); and The Story of a Lie. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

More New Arabian Nights the Dynamiter the Story of a Lie
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Mother Fairy Tales

A book of the bet fairy tales that mothers can tell their children.

Mother Fairy Tales
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Mother Goose

or the Old Nursery Rhymes

Illustrator: Kate Greenaway

Mother Goose
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Mother Goose Complete Melodies

Illustrators: Sir John Gilbert, R.A., John Tenniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, W. McConnell, Z.B. Zwegner

Mother Goose Complete Melodies
Mother_Goose_For_Grown_Folks001
Mother Goose For Grown Folks: a Christmas reading (1860)

Author: Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train), 1824-1906
Language: English
Keywords:
Date 1860
Publisher New York : Rudd & Carleton

Mother Goose For Grown Folks
Mother_Goose_Melodies001
Mother Goose Melodies (1869)

Language: English
Keywords: Nursery rhymes; Children's poetry
Date 1869

Mother Goose Melodies
Mother_Goose_and_What_Happened_Next001
Mother Goose and What Happened Next ([c1909])

Author: Smith, Anna Marion
Language: English
Publisher New York : E. P. Dutton & company
Date [c1909]

Mother Goose and What Happened Next
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Mother Goose in Gridiron Rhyme; A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales and Jingles (1911)

Author: Gridiron Club (Washington, D.C.)
Language: English
Keywords: United States -- Politics and government 1909-1913; United States -- History Humor
Date 1911
Publisher Washington, The Gridiron Press

Mother Goose in Gridiron Rhyme
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Mother Goose in Prose

Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919
Language: English

Library of Congress Classification: PZ Library of Congress Classification: PS


LoC Class PS: Language: and Literatures: American literature
LoC Class PZ: Language: and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Mother Goose in Prose
Mother_Gooses_Melodies001

Mother Gooses Melodies (1904)

Author:
Language: English
Keywords: Nursery rhymes

Mother Gooses Melodies
Mother_Gooses_Nursery_Rhymes-Tales_and_Jingles001
Mother Gooses Nursery Rhymes-Tales and Jingles: Complete Edition (1902)

Author: Gannon, W
Language: English
Keywords: Nursery rhymes
Publisher New York : Hurst
Date 1902

Mother Gooses Nursery Rhymes-Tales and Jingles
Mother_Mcgrew_and_Tommy_Turkey01

Mother Mcgrew and Tommy Turkey

Author: Gall, Alice Crew
Illustrator: Stanley, Lee Wright

Mother Mcgrew and Tommy Turkey
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Mother Owls Rhymes (1911])

Author: Howard, Kate Perkinson
Language: English
Publisher [Ocean Park, Calif.
Date 1911]

Mother Owls Rhymes
Mothers_Story_Book01

Mothers Story Book For Every Boy and Girl

With Color Plates and Numerous Illustrations In Black and White

Mothers Story Book
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Mr Rabbit at Home; A Sequel to Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country (1895)

Author: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908
Language: English
Date 1895
Publisher Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Mr Rabbit at Home
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Mrs Bunnykins Busy Day

Author: Allan WRIGHT
Language: English

Mrs Bunnykins Busy Day
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Mrs Peter Rabbit

Creator Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo), 1874-1965
Language English

Mrs Peter Rabbit
My-_Version_Y_Own_Fairy_Stories01

My Very Own Fairy Stories

Author: Johnny Gruelle
Fiction / Fantasy

Description: From the creator and artist of Raggedy Ann and Andy, this delicately designed book was first published in 1917 by Voland Company of Chicago and has been restored to its original luster in this edition. Decorating each page are whimsical, jewel-like, full-color illustrations -- among the most memorable examples of the "Sunbonnet" period of children's book illustrations from 1905-1920.

My- Version Y Own Fairy Stories
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My Dobbin

Author: Gilly Bear

Description: 4 full-color plate drawings.

My Dobbin
My_First_Book-_Version_2001
My First Book- Version 2; the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson; (1894)

Author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927
Language: English
Keywords: Authors, English; Authorship



Image Count 382

Date 1894

My First Book- Version 2
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My First Book

Author: Bessie Blackstone Coleman

Illustrator: Shirley Kite

My First Book
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My New Book

Six-Penny Toy Books

My New Book
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My Pets

A Book of Petland Pictures and Stories

My Pets
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