This edition includes the story of how the triplets earn money for a birthday present for their mother and how the sun must shine for them to have butter for their bread.

Mehitabe’s dog Ming is her best friend, but when she dresses him up like a doll he runs away. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Baptiste comes out of retirement to go to work for the Count at the Castle Number Nine.

A little boy named Andy was interested in lions. On his way to school, he met a real lion with a thorn stuck in its paw.

Cottontail is only a little country bunny, but she is wise, kind, swift and clever and so the Grandfather bunny chooses her as one of the five Easter Bunnies.

When the King’s stilts disappear he loses interest in fighting the Nizzards and the Kingdom is in danger of sinking. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Little Toot the tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm. Read online at archive.org.... View More

When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel Mary Anne win the bid to dig the cellar for the new town hall in Popperville, they get a chance to prove that Mary Anne ‘can dig as much in a day as a hundred men in a week.’ Read online at archive.... View More

When Mazie asks Horton to keep her egg warm, he did not expect that she wasn’t coming back. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Jimmy joins the boy scouts, he no longer has time for his little sister Jemima until …

Touch and feel book.

April’s cat Sheba has three kittens. But her father insists that theirs is strickly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones?

The man in the yellow hat captures Curious George and brings him to a zoo, but not without many adventures along the way. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Farmer Small has chores to do from morn ‘til night.

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The adventures of the little puppy who escapes under the fence has proven to be one of the most popular books ever published with over fifteen million copies produced. The first edition is considerably longer than subsequent editions.  The versi... View More

Pancho captures the wild bull with the crooked tail and earns the reward of a silver mounted saddle, a purse of gold, and the biggest hat in all Mexico.

When the big snow paralyzes the town, Katy goes to work and plows it out.

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The big brown bear just cannot keep away from the honey tree, even though he knows what will happen if he tries to steal some honey. This Big Golden Book was also shortened and published as a Little Golden Book.

Joey lives in the city and pulls a vegetable cart, but longs for the country, until he gets to try farm life for himself.

Katy the kangaroo has no pocket for her baby so she goes to the big city to find one.

Little Michael O’Malley comes to the rescue of a small bird and receives some step-by-step instruction from a robin in the art of lacing shoes. With illustrated endpapers showing how to tie a shoelace and a shoe to practice with at the back of ... View More

Tootle wants to play in the meadow, but engineer Bill knows he has to stay on the track, no matter what. Later editions have fewer pages.

The little tugboat wants to sail on the big waters, until he meets the sea.

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The little taxi gets Tom and his mother to the train station on time. Later editions are considerably shorter. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A bunny going to bed says goodnight to his room.

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You don’t know what you might catch when you go fishing in McElligot’s pool.

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Twitted by a parrot about his looks, the baby elephant is unhappy until he meets some beautiful creatures just like himself. As with most of the early Little Golden Books, the later editions were much shortened. Read online at archive.org.  This... View More

“The finest fire is the fire that’s out,” sing the five little firemen. Later editions have fewer pages.

The whole family -- three generations and the dog -- join together to make a rundown old house into a home.

The adventures of Cowboy Small.

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Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.

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The little trapper gets trapped.

Sal goes with her father and sister Jane to the general store across the bay in Buck’s Harbor. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

An easy way to learn the constellations and the bright stars.

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The little red caboose saves the train when the engine cannot make it to the top of the mountain. Later editions have fewer pages. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Peter T. Hooper finds scrambled hen’s eggs too boring and goes on an exotic egg hunt. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Two Norwegian folk tales in which the goats outwit the trolls and the wolves.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

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Eloise is six. She lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and has a wonderful time. Read online at archive.org.... View More

When Harold decides to go for a walk in the moonlight, there isn’t any moon, nor anywhere to walk, but his purple crayon soon fixes that. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Conrad Cornelius O’Donald O’Dell wonders why the alphabet has to stop at Z, and goes on to discover new letters. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Anatole is a most honorable mouse. When he realizes that humans are upset by mice sampling their leftover food, he is shocked! He must provide for his beloved family—but he is determined to find a way to earn his supper.

What would happen at school if elephants walked the balance beam, monkeys climbed all over the monkey bars, and tigers went up the rope? Read online at archive.org. ... View More

I am sure Mr. Sneelock won’t mind when he finds he’s a rather large circus behind. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A cat in a hat comes calling and makes a mess.

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Eloise invades the city of light.

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The Grinch can’t stand to see the Whos down in Whosville preparing for Christmas.

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The life history of a hermit crab.

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The Cat in the Hat is up to more mischief.

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Harold goes looking for a Christmas tree, but first he has to lend Santa Claus a helping crayon. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The year is 50 BC, and all of Gaul is occupied except for one small village. How much longer can Asterix, Obelix and their friends resist the Roman Empire? Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Arthur, the church mouse, is lonely with only the church cat Sampson to keep him company and decides, with the parson’s permission, to invite some other mice to join him.

A close look at how cathedrals were built.

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When his iron-hatted aunt determines to humiliate Tom with the aid of the dastardly Captain Najork, Tom demonstrates his mastery at Womble, Muck and Sneedball.

Margaret wants to sail for a day in a boat named for her with someone nice for company.

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A full-scale survey of children’s picturebooks of this century, examining and evaluating numerous notable books and the work of notable illustrators, from E. Boyd Smith and Wanda Gag to Maurice Sendak and Margot Zemach. After more than 30 years... View More

Two brothers decide to build an airplane -- and it flies!

Jo Jo, Jip and Nicolette traveling about in their caravan presenting plays and granting wishes, are shivering in the winter’s cold until a little old fairy godmother grants their wish.

Tabby goes in search of her patchwork quilt and has many adventures before she gets home again. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Should she stay? Should she go?

On Noah’s Ark, it’s time for bed.

Mr. Fox goes hunting with his bag … but the bag ends up hunting him.

The story of Jonah is told on fold-out pages, with a diorama at the back of the box.

One night as he was fast asleep, Nathan heard something in his toy chest …

This volume reprints the Thimble Theater daily strips from 1928 and 1929. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time on January 17, 1929.

Thelma, Roger, James and Harriet Tabby were born in a dumpster, but they have wings.

From cabin boy to admiral of the English navy, Sir Francis Drake was a bold adventurer. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Nicki drops one of his new white mittens in the snow. The animals crawl into it to keep warm, until … someone sneezes! Read online at archive.org.... View More

An omnilbus containing Parrot Cat, Elephant Cat, Polar Bear Cat, Crab Cat and Spider Cat. First published individually in Great Britain in 1984 by Walker Books Ltd., London

When third grader Holly Evans sent her portable gardens into the ionosphere the results are amazing, stupendous, gigantic! Read online at archive.org. ... View More

On the second Thursday of every month, the official town burglars carry out a daring daylight burglary to give the Foxbury Police Force practice in capturing burglars, until one day things do not go as planned. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Pioneers head west to the Oregon territory by wagon train.

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A collection of poems, stories, facts, and illustrations about all kinds of cats.

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A cat, a squirrel and a duck live deep in the woods in an old white cabin where they dine every day on pumpkin soup, until one day …

A boy on a trip to the Empire State Building gets a tour of Sector 7, where the clouds are made. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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. The paper-bound set is in four volumes.

A cat, a squirrel, a duck, pumpkin soup, but not salt … and pepper?

Frank O. King’s newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, starring Walt Wallet, first appeared November 24, 1918. In the strip for February 14, 1921, a baby, whom Walt names Skeezix is left on Walt’s doorstep. This is the first volume in the collec... View More

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.

This first set includes the first three volumes covering 1937 to 1942. This popular adventure strip, set in the days of King Arthur was written and drawn by Hal Foster from 1937 to 1971. For almost all of the run it was a full-page strip.... View More