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Books in the British genre:

Little Folks (1905)

This is the annual volume for 1905. Rackham contributed to this magazine from 1896 through 1908.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

A Little Princess Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905)

Originally a short story, then made into a play, this is a more developed story of the orphan girl left at a boarding school who is reduced to servitude, then rescued by a friend of her father’s. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s): Ethel Franklin Betts

Old Fashioned Tales (1905)

Nineteen stories from the earliest children’s literature. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Oswald Bastable and Others (1905)

A collection of short stories, four of which concern the Bastable children. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): C. E. Brock
H. R. Millar

Pug Peter (1905)

Pug Peter runs away to Animal-Land where, while he is searching for Doggiland, he finds himself made king of Mousiland.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): John Hassall
Harry Rountree

The Railway Children (1905)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1905)

This is the second volume in Howard Pyle’s four volume work on the Matter of Britain - the story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. This volume includes stories of Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram and Sir Percival. Read online at Hat... View More

Author(s): Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

Sunday Reading for the Young (1905)

This was a periodical with religious-themed content. It was published weeky and monthly numbers and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Gordon Browne
Et al

The Venture (1905)

A collection of essays by literary lights of the day. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Et al
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
Et al

The Book of Gilly: Four Months Out of a Life (1906)

A nine year old boy is sent to Ireland when his parents go out to India. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Emily Lawless
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

Love Among the Chickens (1906)

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): H. M. Brock

The National Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1906)

This complete works of Charles Dickens was published in a forty-volume set and this eighty-volume set.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne
Et al

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)

First separate printing of Peter’s first appearance in The Little White Bird. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read for free online at Internet Archive or at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)

Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

The Railway Children (1906)

When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Story of the Amulet (1906)

The five children re-encounter the Psammead—the “It” in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children’s other discovery, the Amulet. R... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

Sunday Reading for the Young (1906)

This was a periodical with religious themed content. It seems to have been a monthly or fortnightly and annual volumes were published.

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
Et al

Tales of a Fairy Court (1906)

Further adventures of Prince Prigio.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): A. A. Dixon

Tinker Two: The Further Adventures of the Admirable Tinker (1906)

The Admirable Tinker, along with his adoptive sister Elsie and the Laddy Noggs, Peeress has further surprising adventures. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): None

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