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The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (1911)

This collection of English poetry was originally published in 1861 and has been a favorite ever since. The illustrations were originally done as covers for Collier’s and were used here without the artist’s knowledge or permission. Read on... View More

Author(s): Francis Turner Palgrave
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

Junior Classics Volume 10 (1912)

From nursery rhymes to all the famous poems that have been memorized by generations of children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

A Child's Stamp Book of Old Verses (1915)

A poem is on one page and a picture stamp to illustrate it is placed on the opposite page.

Author(s): Et al
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

The Edward Lear Alphabet Book With Dash-Drawing for Little Children (1915)

The child artist completes the dashed outline of each letter, then colors in the original and his copy.

Author(s): Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): Frederick Richardson

The Gentlest Giant (1915)

A collection of poetry for children. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Anna Bird Stewart
Illustrator(s): Dugald Stewart Walker

The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children (1916)

This collection includes an introduction by Kenneth Grahame. The British first edition was in two volumes, although usually they were bound as one. It was not illustrated. Volume 1: Read online at archive.org Volume 2: Read online at archive.org Two ... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maud Fuller

The Jig of Forslin: A Symphony (1916)

A book of poetry.  The dust jacket is by Lathrop.

Author(s): Conrad Potter Aiken
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

A Child’s Own Book of Verse: Book One (1917)

Short poems for younger children.

Read online at archive.org. 

A Child’s Own Book of Verse: Book Three (1917)

Yet longer poems for somewhat older children.

Japanese Prints (1918)

A collection of poems modelled on Japanese forms. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Gould Fletcher
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

My Bookhouse: From the Tower Window (1920)

A collection of stories, poems and tales. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Et al

My Bookhouse: Through Fairy Halls (1920)

This volume of the anthology includes longer tales and other types of stories and poetry. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Et al

Child Life: The Children’s Own Magazine (1921)

Child Life was a children’s monthly magazine founded in 1921.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson
Et al

A Dish of Apples (1921)

A collection of poems on the themes of nature and harvest. The author was a novelist best known for his fourteen novel cycle set on Dartmoor. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Eden Phillpotts
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Here and Now Story Book (1921)

An early experiment in pedagogy based on child development studies translated into educational stories.

Down-Adown-Derry (1922)

A book of fairy poems. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Poems of American Patriotism (1922)

A selection of poems celebrating America’s martial heritage from the Boston tea party to the end of World War I. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1923)

A collection of new and old stories and poems for very young children. Read online at Hathitrust.

Silverhorn: The Hilda Conkling Book for Other Children (1924)

A collection of poems from the author’s Poems of a Little Girl and Shoes of the Wind.All of the poems were written before her eleventh birthday.... View More

Author(s): Hilda Conkling
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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