Five children, one only a baby, are abandoned on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez. Marian, the eldest, keeps them alive for seven years, waiting for the baby to grow big enough to survive the sea voyage to safety. Read online at Hathitrust . Read... View More

A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.

Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of memoirs of childhood includes his story The Reluctant Dragon. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Introducing the Little family.

Hansi spends Christmas with his aunt and uncle high in the mountains of the Tyrol. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.

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Fritzl works hard in the fields every day. Liesi works hard all day, too. But when Fritzl complains about how hard he works and how easy Liesi has it, they trade places. The outcome is hilarious. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.

Velvet enters her horse, The Piebald, in England’s premier steeplechase -- The Grand National.

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.

Two girls from England are on holiday in Bruges, Belgium and meet the littlest orphan, Madeleine.

Hans and his sister must help keep the family going while their father is ill.

When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. With them are four babies.

Garnet lives on a farm in Wisconsin and has adventures all summer long.

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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.

The triplets are wearing their new dotted dresses when they meet Aunt Helma and end up helping her with the chores, but the new dresses need washing when they get home. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Peter buys a model ship from an antique store for “all the money he has in the world -- and a little bit more” and discovers it can carry its owners through space and time.

Five year old Betsy is delighted when red-headed Tacy moves in across the street and soon the two girls are inseparable. Read online at archive.org.... View More

When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion.

Mab has been living with her aunt Sarah in Iowa. Now she is going to live with Aunt Belinda on Nantucket Island.

An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.

The four Melendy children move to an old house in the country which sports a cupola atop its three stories. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When separated-at-birth twins Penny and Pam discover each other, they determine to put their family back together.

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.

The four Melendys meet Mark, and then there are five.

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Dinah and Dorinda determine to be naughty while their father is away.

Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.

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As Maria arrives at Moonacre Manor she catches a glimpse of the little white horse.

A bunny going to bed says goodnight to his room.

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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

Twins Nicola and Lawrie Marlow join their four older sisters at Kingscote School.

Semi-fictionalized reminiscences of the Gilbreth family. A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children. No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous... View More

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

The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.

When Steve Duncan is asked to go on an archeological search on a remote Caribbean island, he never imagines the stallion he will find there. But the giant horse is unapproachable, showing nothing but fear and fury toward people. When the stallion get... View More

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

A treasure is rumored to be buried on Invisible Island, and the eight explorers are determined to find it.

Orphaned when his trapeze artist parents are killed, Rob wants nothing more than to be a flyer. But his uncle Ted wants him to have a normal life and takes him to stay with Mrs. Fatima, who runs a boarding house for circus performers. Read online at ... View More

Jo March has married Professor Bhaer and started a boarding school for boys on advanced lines. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.

This second book of Homer Price’s adventures includes the Gravitty-Bitties adventure and Experiment 13. Read online at archive.org.... View More

When Lottie arrives at summer camp, Lisa discovers she has a double and it soon becomes apparent -- a twin! This book was the basis for the movie The Parent Trap.

The story of the two youngest among five children after they alone remain at the family's "four-story mistake" house in the country.

A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.

Two orphaned sisters are sent by their uncle to a boarding school run on the lines made infamous by Dotheboys Hall and run away as soon as they can.

Julie’s father says no pets, but Julie goes ahead and buys a two-toed sloth named Sampson and soon discovers she can’t keep him a secret. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The widow of a retired pirate has move to the country but is still providing cures for children with bad habits.

This time travel adventure takes Chris Mason and Mr. Wicker back to colonial days.

Evie’s pet kangaroo is named Cookie. She is very neat and polite.

Orphaned by the war, Johnny learns that he might have family in the west of England and sets out in search of them.

A story of the author's father and brother, two Irishmen who settled in a silver-mining town in Mormon territory, and how they gradually gained the respect and friendship of the Mormons. 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.

When Nate’s chicken lays an enormous egg, every one is anxious to see what will hatch. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 children’s novel by Dodie Smith about the robbery of the titular family of 101 Dalmatian dogs. A sequel entitled The Starlight Barking continues from the end of the first novel.... View More

Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin Hood and Ivanhoe. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

An Anglo-Indian orphan girl and and an English invalid find their cure in a garden.

On another lavender blue day Anna Lavinia explores dew pond hill and travels through the dew pond to meet her cousin Toby.

Portia and her cousin Julian discover an abandoned summer colony on the shores of a gone-away lake. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Eighteen-year-old Conn leaves Ireland and sails to America, where he helps build the first Ferris Wheel for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Junior Literary Guild edition has a library binding. A prepublication binding in yellow cl... View More

A woman with a magic way of curing children’s bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers. Read online at archive.o... View More

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the widow of a pirate who lives in a house built upside down. When worried mothers call her about Jane or Darci’s behavior problems, she always has a solution. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle sometimes comes up with surprising cures for childrens’ problems. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Eddie’s cousin Priscilla joins him at science camp he is certain she will ruin it for him.

While spending the summer in a house by the sea, four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, discover a bank of wild thyme whose magic propels them on a series of adventures back and forth through time. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.

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Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.

Willie sets out to seek his fortune with his watch, his feather cap, a silver whistle and a feather bag. Along his journey he learns the answers to the nine questions which will allow him to find his father and assume his rightful place in the kingdo... View More

When Jenny starts hearing people’s thoughts, her brothers figure out how to cash in.

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Laura, Lydia, James and Kip put the old wishing well on its mettle, and it delivers. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Margaret goes to stay with her cousins, but her two mischievous brothers come as well and threaten to spoil everything.

Following the clues scratched on a window in their attic Eleanor and Eddy embark on a series of adventures across time and space. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Fleeing the threat of boarding schools, the four Linnet children leave their grandmother’s house and find refuge with their uncle and enter a magical kingdom. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Three children spend the summer holiday on Exmoor where they find ponies, friends and adventure. This is a somewhat shorter version of the original work. The original illustrations have also been dispensed with.

When the Finches move into Number Seven Pride Street, they discover something in the cellar. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

The Marlows help a young boy return to his father, but it requires a dangerous sea voyage.

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.