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The Alligator Case (1965)
Author(s):
William du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William du Bois
The Adventures of Benjamin Pink (1951)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Turret (1963)
Author(s):
Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Tree in the Trail (1942)
The story of a cottonwood tree leads to the history of the Santa Fe Trail.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling Holling
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
Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)
It’s midsummer eve and Mary Poppins takes her charges to the park.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz is showing off his new Ozoplanes when the Soldier with the Green Whiskers accidentally takes off with the Tin Man and Jellia Jamb. When they land on the floating island of Stratovania, the adventures begin.
Author(s):
Ruth Thompson
Illustrator(s):
John Neill
Skippy’s Family (1945)
An homage to a dog and his family.
Author(s):
Stephen Meader
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Korn
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (1944)
Further adventures of five year old Barnaby and his fairy godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Walt Disney’s: The Grasshopper and the Ants (1993)
The familiar fable of the carefree grasshopper and the prudent ants.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Brown
Illustrator(s):
Larry Moore
Christmas Books (1869)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle, John Leech, Charles Keene
Get-A-Way and Hary Janos (1933)
A worn-out stuffed horse and a broken-down toy soldier travel to the land where toys become new again.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses (1900)
A collection of nonsense verse. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Leslie Brooke
The Two Towers (1954)
The members of the Fellowship of the Ring are scattered as the forces of Mordor and Isengard put forth their power.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Walter Lorraine
The Luck Stone (2014)
Originally written in 1908 and published in a British magazine, Chums, this is a school story with plenty of blood-and-thunder.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse, William Townend
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimowski
Mopsa the Fairy (1927)
Jack comes to the aid of a fairy who takes him on a wonder voyage.
Author(s):
Jean Ingelow
Illustrator(s):
Dugald Walker
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Reindeer (1957)
The triplets go with their parents on a visit to Lapland in this final book in the series.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Great Expectations (1979)
Young Pip has a patron -- but who? This edition includes Dickens’ original ending where Pip and Estella are not reconciled.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
None
Vieilles Chansons et Rondes pour les Petits Enfants (1883)
Twenty-seven traditional French songs. Read for free online at the Library of Congress.
Author(s):
Anonymous, Charles-Marie Widor
Illustrator(s):
Maurice de Monvel
The Legacy (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown