Children’s Literature
ALPHABET
JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS (1592–1670) - From Orbis Pictus
The Childes Guide (1667) - In Adams Fall
A Little Book for Children (ca. 1705) - A Was an Archer
The Picture Alphabet (ca. 1830) - A Was an Archer
The Instructive Alphabet (1814) - At Early Dawn
The Child's New Play-Thing (1742) - A Was an Apple-Pie
KATE GREENAWAY (1846–1901) - From A Apple Pie
EDWARD LEAR (1812–1888) - The Absolutely Abstemious Ass
DR. SEUSS (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904–1991) - Dr. Seuss's ABC
ALICE PROVENSEN (b. 1918) and MARTIN PROVENSEN (1916–1987) - A Peaceable Kingdom and The Shaker Abecedarius
CHAPBOOKS
Tom Thumb (ca. 1790)
Jack the Giant Killer (ca. 1540-50)
The History of Good Two-Shoes (ca. 1800)
Children in the Wood (ca. 1590)
The History of Sir Richard Whittington and His Cat (ca. 1840)
The Art of Making Money Plenty (1817)
The New-York Cries (1820)
PRIMERS AND READERS 8. The New-England Primer (ca. 1690)
From A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744)
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825) - From Lessons for Children
New England Primer (1850-1901)
From Readers
Christian (ca. 1400)
Pictorial (ca. 1840)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1940)
JANICE MAY UDRY (b. 1928) - A Tree Is Nice
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Frog and Toad Together
At Tall 14oz
TEXTS AND CONTEXTS: WRITING 17. The Copy-Book (17th century)
Writing Sheet (18th century)
Happy Rhythms (twentieth century)
JOHN NEWBERY (1713-1767) 20. Letters on the Most Common, as Well as Most Important, Occasions in Life
FAIRY TALES 21. CHARLES PERRAULT (1628-1703)
The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots
The Sleeping Beauty in the Forest
The Genies, or, Little Female Academy
The Story of the Cruel Giant Barbaro, the Good Giant Benefico, and the Little Pretty Dwarf Mignon
JEANNE-MARIE LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT (1711-1780) - Beauty and the Beast
JACOB GRIMM (1785-1863) and WILHELM GRIMM (1786-1859) - Hansel and Gretel
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (1805-1875) - The Nightingale
GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905)
The Light Princess
The Giants' Heart
FRANK STOCKTON (1834-1902) - The Griffin and the Minor Canon
OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) - The Happy Prince
KENNETH GRAHAME (1859-1932)
The Reluctant Dragon
The Great K. & L. Railway
The Discontented King
WANDA GÁG (1893-1946) - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
LLOYD ALEXANDER (b. 1924)
The Truthful Harp
CLASSICAL MYTHS
WILLIAM GODWIN (1756-1836) - The Minotaur
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864) - The Minotaur
CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819-1875) - The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
LEON GARFIELD (1921-1996) and EDWARD BISHEN (1920-1996) - The God Beneath the Sea
PADRAIC COLUM (1881-1972) - From The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
LEGENDS
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) - The Pied Piper of Hamelin
History of Robin Hood (ca. 1560)
HOWARD PYLE (1853-1911) - The Merrie Adventures of Robin Hood
ROGER LANCELYN GREEN (1918-1987) - King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915) - From The Lost Life of Pocahontas
JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939) - John Henry
MARY POPE OSBORNE (b. 1949) - Davy Crockett
RELIGION: JUDEO-CHRISTIAN STORIES
JAMES JENKINS (ca. 1816-1874) - A Token for Children
JAMES BALDWIN (1841-1925) - The Sampo; A Delightful Collection of Stories
JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688) - The Pilgrim's Progress (abridged)
ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748) - Divine Songs for Children
TIM BUCKLEY (b. 1949) - From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
FANTASY 20. CATHERINE SINCLAIR (1800-1864) - Holiday House
LUCY LANE CLIFFORD (1846-1929) - The New Mother
L. FRANK BAUM (1856-1919) - The Capture of Father Time
SCIENCE FICTION
H. G. WELLS (1866-1946) - The Stolen Body
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-1988) - Podkayne of Mars: Her Life and Times
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN (b. 1948) - The Last Super Bowl Game
VONDA N. MCINTYRE (b. 1948) - Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
CRAIG KEE STRETE (b. 1950) - The Bleeding Man’
PICTURE BOOKS
Black-and-White 6. Introduction
WANDA GÁG (1893-1946) - Millions of Cats
MUNRO LEAF (1905-1976); Illustrator ROBERT LAWSON (1892-1957) - From The Story of Ferdinand
ROBERT McCLOSKEY (1914-2003) - Make Way for Ducklings
Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) - Little Tim and The Brave Sea Captain
FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE (b. 1919) - The Shrinking of Treehorn
RUSSEL HOBAN (b. 1925) - Dinner at Alberta’s
ALFRED NOYES (1880 - 1958) - The Highwayman
PATRICIA C. McKISSACK - The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of The Supernatural
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG - The Mysteris of Harry Burdick
DAVID MACALAY - BAA
Colour
HEINRICH HOFFMANN (1809-1894) - Struwwelpeter
KATE GREENAWAY (1846-1901) - Under the Window
RANDOLPH CALDECOTT (1846-1886) - Sing a Song for Sixpence
BLANCHE FISHER WRIGHT - The Real Mother Goose
ROBERT MCCLOSKEY (1914-2003) - From Make Way for Ducklings
BERTHA UPTON (1849-1912); Illustrator FLORENCE UPTON (1873-1922) - From The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog
2. HELEN BANNERMAN (1862-1946) - The Story of Little Black Sambo
BEATRIX POTTER (1866-1943) - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872-1949)
Clever Bill
JEAN DE BRUNHOFF (1899-1937) - The Story of Babar the Little Elephant
MARJORIE FLACK (1897-1958) - Angus and the Ducks
ROB2ERT L. MAY (1905-1976) - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
ROGER DUVOISIN (1904-1980) - The Happy Lion
MAURICE SENDAK (b. 1928) - Where the Wild Things Are
EZRA JACK KEATS (1916-1983) - From The Snowy Day
DR. SEUSS (Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904–1991) - Green Eggs and Ham
ARNOLD LOBEL (1933-1987) 9. Frog and Toad Are Friends
RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934) 10. Fungus the Bogeyman
ERIC CARLE (b. 1929) 11. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
PAT HUTCHINS (b. 1942) 12. Rosie's Walk
RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925); Illustrator QUENTIN BLAKE (b. 1932) 13. How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934) 14. The Snowman
JENNY WAGNER (b. 1939); Illustrator RON BROOKS (b. 1948) 15. John Brown, Rose, and the Midnight Cat
ALLAN AHLBERG (b. 1938); Illustrator JANET AHLBERG (1944–1994) 16. Each Peach Pear Plum
JOHN BURNINGHAM (b. 1936) 17. From Come Away from the Water, Shirley
DONALD HALL (b. 1928); Illustrator BARBARA COONEY (1917–2000) 18. From Ox-Cart Man
MEM FOX (b. 1946); Illustrator JULIE VIVAS (b. 1947) 19. From Possum Magic
GABRIELLE VINCENT (Monique Martin) (1928–2000) 20. From Ernest and Celestine
DAVID MCKEE (b. 1935) 21. From I Hate My Teddy Bear
DENNIS LEE (b. 1939); Illustrator MARY-LOUISE GAY (b. 1952) 22. From Dinky's Lion
LYNNIE DOBB (b. 1941) 23. From Harry Maclary's Caterwaul Caper
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG (b. 1949) 24. From Black and White
JON SCIESZKA (b. 1954); Illustrator LANE SMITH (b. 1959) 25. From The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
COMICS
From Funny Folks (1875)
From Impossible Adventures (ca. 1858)
RICHARD F. OUTCAULT (1863–1928) 26. From The Yellow Kid, No. 1 (1897)
WINSOR MCCAY (1869–1934) 27. From Little Nemo in Slumberland (1908) - The Funnies, No. 1 (1929)
HERGÉ (GEORGES REMI) (1907–1983) - Tintin in America
HERGÉ (GEORGES REMI) (1907–1983) - Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
WALT DISNEY (1901–1966) and FLOYD GOTTFREDSON (1905–1986) 29. From Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine (1935)
JOE SHUSTER (1914-1992) - Action Comics, No 1
FRANK HAMPSON (1918 - 1985) - Eagle
ALBERT UDERZO - Asterix in Britain
MARVEL COMICS
The Hulk
The Life of Pope John Paul II
VERSE
Lullabies and Baby Songs 6. All the Pretty Little Horses
Cradle Song
Go to Sleep, Little Baby
A Baby Song
Rockabye Baby
Bye, O my baby
[Baby, baby] lullaby
Bye-bye, baby
[Hush-a-babe, hush-a-bye]
[Hush-a-babe, lie still and sleep]
Nursery Verse
[The man in the moon]
[How many days has my baby to play?]
[Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town]
[Lucinda's block]
[Ride a cock-horse]
[Baa, baa, black sheep]
[Little boy blue]
[Four and twenty tailors]
[There once was a man]
[There was an owl]
[Dicky, dicky, dare]
The man in the moon .
[One fine day in the middle of the night]
[Doctor Foster was a good man]
[Blessed be the memory]
Riddles and Wordplay .
[Riddle me, riddle me ree]
[Hyder iddle diddle]
JOHN COTTON (1925-2003) - Teledild Riddles
Texts and Contexts: TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR
JANE TAYLOR (1783-1824) 33. The Star
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) 34. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
UNK WHITE (1900-1986) 35. Twinkle, Twinkle, Southern Cross (folk version)
Ringo, Ringo, Star (American folk version)
JOHN AGARD (b. 1949) 37. Twinkle Twinkle Firefly (Caribbean version)
Playground Verse
[How many miles to Babylon?]
[Ee-arry in the morning]
[Down to the carpet you must go]
[Shirttail bare]
[Little Sally Water]
[All hid?]
Nonsense
EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888)
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Jumblies
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) - How doth the little crocodile
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) - The voice of the Lobster
LEWIS CARROLL (1832-1898) - Jabberwocky
NANCY WILLARD (b. 1936) - William Blake's Inn for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
NANCY WILLARD (b. 1936) - The Wise Cow Makes Way, Room, and Believe
NANCY WILLARD (b. 1936) - Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way
MARGARET MAHY (b. 1936) - Kings and 42 Elephants
POETRY COLLECTIONS
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894) 5. Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses:
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To Alison Cunningham
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Bed in Summer
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: A Thought
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: At the Seaside
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Young Night Thought
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Whole Duty of Children
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Rain
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Pirate Story
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Foreign Lands
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Windy Nights
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Travels
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Singing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Looking Forward
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: A Good Play
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Where Go the Boats?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Auntie's Skirts
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Land of Counterpane
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Land of Nod
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: My Shadow
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: System
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: A Good Boy
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Escape at Bedtime
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Marching Song
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Cow
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Happy Thought
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Wind
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Keepsake Mill
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Good and Bad Children
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Foreign Children
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Sun's Travels
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Lamplight
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: My Bed is a Boat
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Swing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To Minnie
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To My Name-Child
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To Any Reader
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Time to Rise
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Fairy Bread
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Looking-Glass River
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: From a Railway Carriage
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Winter-Time
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Hayloft
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Farewell to the Farm
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: North-West Passage
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Unseen Playmate
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: My Ship and I
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Child Alone
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Sun Travels
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: My Kingdom
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Picture-Books in Winter
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: My Treasures
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Block City
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Land of Story-Books
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Armies in the Fire
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Little Land
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Night and Day
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Nest Eggs
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Flowers
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Summer Sun
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Dumb Soldier
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Autumn Fires
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: The Gardener
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Historical Associations
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: Envoys
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To Willie and Henrietta
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To My Mother
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To Auntie
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To Minnie
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To My Name-Child
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) - A Child's Garden of Verses: To Any Reader
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956): Peacock Pie
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) 7. Peacock Pie
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) 7. The Horseman
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) 7. Peacock PieAlas, Alack!
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Tired Tim
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Miriam
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Huntsman
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - I Can't Abear
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Bandog
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Dunce
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Shookee
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Come One, Come All!
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Bread and Cherries
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Old Shellover
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Hapless
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Little Bird
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Matilda
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - No!: I Abacadabra
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Cupboard
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Cake and Sack
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Great and Star
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Thief of Toys
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Jim Jay
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Tilly
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Up and Down
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The T.C.B.
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Miss T.
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Cupboard
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Search
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Hide and Seek
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Mrs. Earth
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Moon
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Poor Henry
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Widow
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Full Moon
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Quartette
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Locket
Miss Jorinda Binks
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Truants
The Scarecrow
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Mat
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Berries
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Off the Ground
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Three Robinas
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - A Widow's Weeds
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Socks
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Mr. Macqueen
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Poor Miss
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Little Green Orchard
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Mrs. MacQueen
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Sam
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Andy Battle's and Nod's Song
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Late
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Old Soldier
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Picture
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Little Old Cupid
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - King David
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Penny Quin
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Kings and Queens
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Old House
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Unstooping
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - All But Blind
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Nicholas Nye
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Pigs and The Charcoal Burner
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Five Eyes
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Tit for Tat
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Earth Folk
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Grim
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Summer Evening
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - At the Keyhold
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Old Stone House
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Ruin
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Ride By Nights
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Peak and Puke
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Changeling
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Mocking Fairy
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Honey Robbers
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Longlegs
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Bewitched
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Melmillo
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Trees
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Silver
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Nobody Knows
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Will ever?
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Wanderers
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Many a Mickle
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - Snow
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Horseman
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Song and The Secret
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Song of Soldiers
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Bee’s Song
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Song of Shadows
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Song of The Mad Prince
WALTER DE LA MARE (1873-1956) - The Song of Finis
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)
THE PENNY FIDDLE
In the Wilderness
The General Elliot
Vain and Careless
The Forbidden Play
The Harp Dispensed
The Well-dressed Children
The Magical Picture
The Alice Jean
A Boy in Church
How and Why
Warning to Children
RANDALL JARRELL (1914–1965)
The Bat-Poet
CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917–2003)
Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems
Early in the Morning
I Went to Santa Barbar
John Clark
Spin Me a Web
Tommy Hyde
One for the Man
Mrs McPhee
There Was an Old Woman
Daniel Brent
Freddie Hips
Charity Chadder
Jeremiah
High on the Wall
Wilbur
My Cat Plumduff
The Owl Looked out of the Ivy Bush
Ring Dove
Baby, Baby
At Linkinhorne
In My Garden
Forgive
Stone in The Water
Round the Corner Comes lack Fall
Said the Clown
Janny lim lan
Mistletoe
Balloono
Take Me to the Water Fair
Rebekah
Nicholas Navlor
John, John the Baptist
Tell. Tell the Bees
Johnny Come over the Water
I Love My Darling Tractor
Let's God Ride
Here's the Reverend Rundle
The Money Came in, Came in
Good Morning, Mr Croco-doco-dile
When I Was a Boy
I Am the Song
LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)
Some of the Davs of Everett Anderson
Monday Morning Good Morning
Tuesday All Day Bain
Wednesday Noon Adventure
Thursday Evening
Friday Waiting for Mom
Friday Mom Is Home Payday
Saturday Night Late
Sunday Morning Lonelv
Sunday Night Good
Confetti: Poems for Children
Sun Song 1271
Colors Crackle, Colors Roar 1271
Purple Snake
Can I, Can I Catch the Wind 1271
Cloud Dragons
Castanet Clicks
Mexican Magician
Leaf Soup
I Hear, I Hear
Dancing Paper
Abuelita's Lap
Words Free As Confetti 1273
River Voice
MARILYN NELSON (b. 1946)
Carver: A Life in Poems
Out of "Slave's Ransom"
Praver of the Ivory-Handled Knife
Washboard Wizard
A Ship Without a Rudder
Curve-Breaker
My People
From an Alabama Farmer
The Sweet-Hearts
The Joy of Sewing
Veil-Raisers
How a Dream Dies
The Wild Garden
Professor Carver's Bible Class
Friends in the Klan
Driving Dr. Carver
Baby Carver
Last Talk with lim Hardwick
GRACE NICHOLS (b. 1950)
Come on into my Tropical Garden
Come on into My Tropical
Drinking Water-coconut
Garden
Early Country Village Morning
Alligator
The Sun
I Like to Stay Up
Sky
They Were My People
I Am the Rain
Poor Grandma
Lizard
Riddle
Dinosaurs 1289
Granny Granny Please Comb My
Cow's Complaint
Hair
Old Man's Weary thoughts
My Cousin Melda
I'm a Parrot
Wha Me Mudder Do
Parakeets
The Fastest Belt in Town
Doctor Blair
Moody Mister Sometimish
For Forest
Mango
Sea Timeless Song
Banana Man
Crab Dance
PLAYS
J. M. BARRIE (1860-1937)
Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
BARBARA FIELD (b. 1933)
A Christmas Carol
LAURENCE YEP (b. 1948)
Dragonwings
BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION
CONDUCT BOOKS FOR BOYS
The Father's Legacy; or, Faithful Counsels of a Good Father to His Children and Friends (1678)
JOHN BARNARD (1685-1764)
A Present for an Apprentice; or, A Sure Guide to Gain Both Esteem and an Estate
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694-1773)
Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son
Awkwardness of Different Kinds
Bashfulness
Matrimony
CONDUCT BOOKS FOR GIRLS
Duties of a Lad's Maid (1825)
Familiarity with Superiors
Stavs and Corsets
Padding, Bandaging, &c. to Improve the Figure
MINNA THOMAS ANTRIM (b. 1861)
Don't's for Girls: A Manual of Mistakes
DORA LANGLOIS (1865-1940)
The Child: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughters
ROBERT BADEN.POWELL. (1857-1941)
Rovering to Success: A Book of Life-Sport for Young Men
ROBIE H. HARRIS (b. 1940); illustrator MICHAEL EMBERLEY (b. 1960)
It's Perfectly Normal
The Bird and the Bee 1482
Lots of Questions: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
LIFE WRITING
Facts to Correct Fancies; or, Short Narratives compiled from the Biography of Remarkable Women, written for children, by a Mother (1840)
CLARA L. BALFOUR (1808-1878) - Women Worth Emulating
CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823-1901) - A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and All Lands
THE BROWNIES' BOOK (1920-1921)
Benjamin Banneker
THE BROWNIES' BOOK (1920-1921)
Benjamin Banneker
America's First Martvr-Patriot (Crispus Attucks)
The Story of Phillis Wheatley
"The Bravest of the Brave" (Elizabeth Blakeslev)
The Story of Harriet Tubman
ANNE FRANK (1929-1945)
The Diary of a Young Girl
JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915)
Homesick: My Own Story
MILTON MELTZER (b. 1915)
Beniamin Franklin: The New American
ADVENTURE STORIES
DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660-1731)
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (children's version, 1823)
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 0860-1946
Raggylug: The Stor ot a Cottontail Rabbit
. MILNE (1882-1956)
SHANNON GARST (1894-1981)
lames Bowie and His Famous Knife
E. L. KONIGSBURG (b. 1930)
The Mixed-Un Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
SCHOOL STORIES
SARAH FIELDING (1710-1768) - The Governess: or. The Little Female Academy
THOMAS HUGHES (1822-1896) - Tom Brown's Schooldave
RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936) - Stalky & Co.
EVELYN SHARP (1869 - 1955) - In School
ELEANOR ESTES (1906-1988) - The Hundred Dresses
AIDAN CHAMBERS (6. 1934) - The Present Takers
ALMA FLOR ADA (b. 1938) - My Name Is María Isabel
TIM WYNNE-JONES (b. 1948) - Tweedledum and Tweedledead
NIKKI GRIMES (b. 1950) - Bronx Masquerade
DOMESTIC FICTION
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) - Original Stories from Real Life
MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768-1849) - Lazy Lawrence
MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768-1849) - The Birthday Present
MARY MARTHA SHERWOOD - The History of the Fairchild Familv: or. The Child's Manual
CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823-1901) - A Patchwork Fever
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) - Psyche’s Art (1868)
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT (1849-1924) - Edithe's Burglar
L. M. MONTGOMERY (1874-1942) - Each in His Own Tongue
BEVERLY CLEARY (b. 1916) - Ramona and Her Father
LENSEY NAMIOKA (b. 1929) - Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear
ROCH CARRIER (b. 1937) - The Hockey Sweater
MILDRED D. TAYLOR (b. 1943) - Roll of Thunder. Hear My Cry
BRUCE BROOKS (b. 1950) - Out