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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1920)

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This is the first appearance of Peter from the book The Little White Bird. This is the trade edition that appeared throughout the 1920’s of the second Rackham-illustrated edition. The book was also available with twenty-four, sixteen or fewer i... View More

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

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Pollyooly Dances (1920)

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Pollyooly grows up and is caught up in a German plot during World War I. Read online at archive.org.

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

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The Princess and the Goblin (1920)

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The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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“Queen Lucia” (1920)

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Mrs. Emmeline “Lucia” Lucas is the social leader of Riseholme, a quaint Tudor village. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s): None

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Robinson Crusoe (1920)

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First published in 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most rece... View More

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Roy Blakeley’s Silver Fox Patrol (1920)

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Roy, Pee-wee and the rest of the gang find a treasure map in an old railroad car and are off on a treasure hunt. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s): Thomas Clarity
Howard L. Hastings

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The Sandman’s Mountain: A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons (1920)

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The further adventures of Giddy, just five, in the Sandman’s country. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Louis Dodge
Illustrator(s): Paul Bransom

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Swatty: A Story of Real Boys (1920)

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A story of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi in Muscatine, Iowa. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): W. B. King
Frank Schoonover

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Westward Ho! (1920)

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Amyas Leigh sails from England with Francis Drake and becomes a freebooter or pirate in the Carribean. He later returns to England at the time of the Spanish Armada. The novel is blighted by it virulent anti-Catholicsm. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Alice Adams (1921)

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Alice Adams aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affection of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Arthur William Brown
Thelma C. Grosvenor

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

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

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Marie A. Lawson
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Grim: The Story of a Pike (1921)

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The life story of a fierce fish. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Svend Fleuron
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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Gulliver’s Travels (1921)

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Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in various strange countries, including those of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians and Houyhnhnms. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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In Pawn (1921)

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Another tale of Muscatine, this time about a lazy junk man and his young boy. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): R. L. Lambdin

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Indiscretions of Archie (1921)

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Archie, a bankrupt Englishman brings his wife to her native New York to seek her father’s blessing (and a dowry would also be nice) and immediately gets into a row with a hotelier who turns out to be his father-in-law. Read online at archive.or... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Indiscretions of Archie (1921)

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Archie, a bankrupt Englishman brings his wife to her native New York to seek her father’s blessing (and a dowry would also be nice) and immediately gets into a row with a hotelier who turns out to be his father-in-law. Read online at archive.or... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Jill the Reckless (1921)

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Jill loses her money and her fiance, goes to America, makes some money, invests it in a play that fails, Wally Mason, who has loved her since she was a child, fixes it and she has a successful play and a husband. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Kidnapped (1921)

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When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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Love Among the Chickens: Revised (1921)

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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): Unknown

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Rilla of Ingleside (1921)

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The chaos of World War I engulfs peaceful Prince Edward Island and claims its victims. We see it all through the eyes of Anne’s youngest child. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s): Maria L. Kirk

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