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Miss Hickory (1946)
Miss Hickory has a hickory nut for a head, but her body is an applewood twig.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Carolyn Bailey
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Gannett
The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume One Daily Comics 1924-1927 (2008)
This is the first volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips from 1924-1927 as well as a few atypical Sunday strips that advance the plot.
Author(s):
Harold Gray
Illustrator(s):
Harold Gray
Eloise (1955)
Author(s):
Kay Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Pet Store (1981)
Harry and Jane go to the Pet Store, but just to visit.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Tinker and Tanker Out West (1961)
Ride ’em cowboy! as Tinker and Tanker travel to the old west.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Two Stuck-in-the-Mud Rhinoceroses (1948)
When they fall asleep after their mud-bath the mother rhinoceros and her baby get stuck when the sun hardens the mud.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Whispering Rabbit, and Other Stories (1965)
Includes The Whispering Rabbit, Scupper’s Song, The Friendly Book, The Golden Egg Book and poems.
Author(s):
Margaret Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams, Lillian Obligado
Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1979)
Prince Ricardo has discovered his father King Prigio’s magic articles and gone on a villain-slaying spree -- but now finds himself in trouble and must look to Princess Jaqueline for help.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Klaas Bil
Jungle Tales: Little Black Sambo and The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1948)
This book includes The Saggy Baggy Elephant and “Little Black Sambo.”
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman, Byron Jackson, Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Mother Goose: A Work and Play Book for Silent Reading (1929)
This is an elementary school reader based on children’s stories.
Author(s):
Marion Kellogg, Emma Bolenius
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
T-Model Tommy: Study Edition (1940)
This special school edition of the adventures of Tommy Ballard and his trucking company has study questions and a glossary.
Author(s):
Stephen Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Blue Poetry Book (1891)
The purpose of this collection is to provide children with great poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Lancelot Speed, H. J. Ford
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1950)
Richard Hannay has returned to England from Rhodesia and is immediately embroiled in a German plot to steal British military secrets.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Bric-a-Brac Stories (1885)
Twenty-four stories with pictures. Read for free online at Google Books.
Author(s):
Constance Harrison
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Tapestry Room (1879)
Two cousins go on magical journeys by way of the Tapestry Room. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
A Visit from St. Nicholas (1937)
A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Author(s):
Clement Moore
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
Greenwitch (1986)
Jane and her brothers help the Old Ones recover the Grail stolen by the Dark.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Susan Cooper
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Shooting Star (1961)
A meteoroid grounds in the polar sea and Tintin and his companions are off to claim it.
Read online at archive.org.
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1886)
Author(s):
Robert Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Story of the Great Plains (1943)
History and geography of the Great Plains including the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and parts of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
C. H. De Witt