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Julie’s Secret Sloth (1953)
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Henneberger
One Morning in Maine (1952)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Moffats (1941)
The Moffats live on New Dollar Street with their widowed mother who is a seamstress.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Rapunzel (1984)
A beautiful young woman is imprisoned in a tower.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
London Bridge is Falling Down (1967)
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Pinkerton, Behave! (1979)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Beauty and the Beast (1942)
This version of the famous story of Beauty and the Beast appeared in the Perry Pie Gift Book #1.
Author(s):
Jeanne-Marie de Beaumont
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Night Before Christmas (1951)
T’was the night before Christmas
And all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring
Note even a mouse.
Author(s):
Clement Moore
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The White Feather (1907)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
William Townend
The Man Who Lost His Head (1942)
Author(s):
Claire Bishop
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Grammar in Rhyme (1868)
An introduction to the parts of speech. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Magic Fishbone (1921)
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Francis Bedford
The Little Red Hen (1928)
The little red hen plants some wheat and invites her neighbors to help her grow the grain to make some bread … but they have better things to do until …
Author(s):
Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader, Elmer Hader
Aesop’s Fables (1912)
Author(s):
Vernon Jones
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Barney Bipple’s Magic Dandelions (1988)
In this edition Steven Kellogg has redone the illustrations. Barney receives three dandelions, each of which will grant a wish. But things soon start going wrong.
Author(s):
Carol Chapman
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Ready, Teddy, Go! (1983)
A ‘Daisychain’ of cut-out teddy bears and rhyming text.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
The Circus is Coming (1978)
Author(s):
Hilary Knight
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (1992)
Running for ten years, from 1985 to 1995, the adventures of Calvin and his tiger friend Hobbes was one of the most popular comic strips of all time.
Author(s):
Bill Watterson
Illustrator(s):
Bill Watterson
Aliciae per Speculum Tansitus (1966)
A Latin translation of the sequel to the most famous and popular fantasy novel in English.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel