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Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:

Day and Night Songs; and The Music Master. A Love Poem (1860)

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This collection includes “The Faeries” which was illustrated to great effect by Richard Doyle. The cover image is from an 1884 reprint by G. Philip & Son. The text below is from the 1860 edition. Read for free online at Internet Archi... View More

Author(s): William Allingham
Illustrator(s): Arthur Hughes
John Everett Millais
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)

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Alice returns to Wonderland by way of the looking glass over the mantle and meets many queer people, including the Walrus and the Carpenter. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): John Tenniel

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The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)

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This comic masterpiece by Jane Austen’s favorite poet describes what started out as a quiet expedition to the country. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): William Cowper
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

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‘In winter I get up at nightAnd dress by yellow candle-light.In summer, quite the other way,I have to go to bed by day.’ And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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When We Were Very Young (1924)

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A book of poems in which we first meet Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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Now We Are Six (1927)

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More poems featuring Christopher Robin.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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More To and Again (1930)

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Freddy organizes a tour to visit Santa Claus at the North Pole and many adventures ensue, including the rescue of two children by the Bean farm animals and their friends. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Hilarie Belloc’s Cautionary Verses (1931)

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The complete collection of humorous verses by the English master.

Author(s): Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s): Nicolas Bentley
Basil T. Blackwood

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Freddy the Detective (1932)

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Freddy discovers a talent for detective work and is soon on the case of the missing toy train.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Great Kipling Stories Together with a Life of Rudyard Kipling (1936)

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A selection of Rudyard Kipling’s greatest short stories and poems.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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The Story of Freginald (1936)

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Freginald joins the Boomschmidt Circus and meets fellow poet Freddy the pig. Together they solve a mystery and save the Circus.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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The Clockwork Twin (1937)

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Uncle Ben builds a clockwork boy so Adoniram will have a playmate, but Freddy discovers a real twin.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1938
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I Hear America Singing (1937)

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This is a collection of poems about cowboys, and trains, trappers and sawyers from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Northwoods to the Gulf. The dark blue library binding is the JLG edition. The grey binding is the trade binding.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1938
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Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know (1938)

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A selection of stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling for younger readers.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Charles Livingston Bull
Kurt Wiese
Et al

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Madeline (1939)

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The smallest of the twelve French orphans under the care of Madame Clavel wakes up one night with a tummy ache. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s): Ludwig Bemelmans

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1940
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Wiggins for President (1939)

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The Bean farm animals found the first animal republic and Mrs. Wiggins runs for president. In the meantime Freddy is founding the First Animal Bank of Centerboro. Later published as Freddy the Politician.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Freddy and the Ignormus (1941)

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No one has ever seen it, but everyone knows and fears the Ignormus living in the big woods. When things start to go missing from the Bean farm, Freddy finds the trail leads to an abandoned house - and the Ignormus. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Freddy and the Perilous Adventure (1942)

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Emma and Alice the ducks accept Freddy’s invitation to a balloon ascension and find themselves drifting off over the countryside. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Freddy and the Bean Home News (1943)

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Freddy starts the animals’ own newspaper The Bean Home News and gets involved in the notorious affair of the cast iron deer.

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Freddy and Mr. Camphor (1944)

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Freddy is looking forward to a relaxing summer staying in a houseboat while he watches Mr. Camphor’s estate, when his old adversary Simon the rat shows up. Read online at archive. org. ... View More

Author(s): Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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