A true classic of American humor. Read online at archive.org.

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

Julia Atwater’s large family connection, and especially her niece Florence, takes an intense interest in her social life. Read online at archive.org.... View More

A collection of short stories about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Read online at archive.org.

Miss Elizabeth Mapp leads the social life of Tilling from her fine old family home of Mallards. Read online at Hathitrust.

A comic history of New York under the Dutch.

An elderly couple realize they are very lonely. The wife wants a cat, so her husband sets off in search of one. Each seems lovely, so he walks back home with millions of cats following him. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

When Alexander Botts offers his services to the Earthworm Tractor Company, they do not realize what they are in for - fortunately for them and for us.

Further adventures of Penrod and Sam.

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

The complete collection of humorous verses by the English master.

Fresh from her triumph at the Riseholme fete, Lucia takes a holiday in Tilling and a clash of titans ensues as Miss Mapp struggles to retain her position of social leader. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The doings of a small boy in mid-century middle America.

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

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

Marco imagines an elaborate fantastical parade traveling along Mulberry Street. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Baptiste comes out of retirement to go to work for the Count at the Castle Number Nine.

The ingenuity of ten-year-old Bottsford enables the three clownish policemen of an isolated idyllic isle to catch thieves who have been stealing the islanders’ fish and fishing nets.

When the King’s stilts disappear he loses interest in fighting the Nizzards and the Kingdom is in danger of sinking. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The potty Duke of Dunstable turns up at Blandings Castle, and this time demands that Lord Emsworth make him a gift of the Empress of Blandings. Knowing his limitations Lord Emsworth reaches out to Uncle Fred and is not disappointed in the results. Re... View More

A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.

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When Mazie asks Horton to keep her egg warm, he did not expect that she wasn’t coming back. 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.

Homer Price lives just outside Centerburg with his parents who run a tourist camp and with his pet skunk, Aroma. This first book of his adventures includes the story of the night the doughnut machine at his Uncle Ulysses’ lunchroom went crazy. ... View More

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

When William Wilmer learns, on his 29th birthday, that he can understand animals and talk to them, his dreary life gets a change for the better -- and wilder.

You don’t know what you might catch when you go fishing in McElligot’s pool.

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When a moose gives a Bingle Bug a ride on his horns, he unwillingly becomes host to a large number of freeloading pests. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Peter Peabody Pepperell, who has shrunk to a tiny size, takes off on an adventure on the back of his seagull friend Gus.

King Derwin is tired of the same old weather. He tells his magicians to make something new. Fortunately Bartholomew is on the job when the oobleck begins to fall. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.

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Stories of a little Italian village in the valley of the Po where the priest Don Camillo battles the communist mayor Peppone.

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

Peter T. Hooper finds scrambled hen’s eggs too boring and goes on an exotic egg hunt. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

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The hard winter that Uncle Analdas, the old rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for Little Georgie and the other animals of Rabbit Hill when the Folks go away and leave a neglectful caretaker with a mean dog in charge. This is the ... View More

Eloise is six. She lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and has a wonderful time. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Conrad Cornelius O’Donald O’Dell wonders why the alphabet has to stop at Z, and goes on to discover new letters. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Selections from the humorous sporting novel Handley Cross.

I am sure Mr. Sneelock won’t mind when he finds he’s a rather large circus behind. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Eloise invades the city of light.

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The Grinch can’t stand to see the Whos down in Whosville preparing for Christmas.

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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

A collection of poems about fabulous animals.

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More stories about he author’s deplorable Uncle Silas.

The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and we have just covered the T’s. The greatest master of English in his most appealing work.

The most famous exploits of the muddle-headed Don for younger readers.

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A mysterious potion mixed by Kerby with his chemistry set has a beneficial effect on the neighborhood bully but also wreaks havoc at the Sunday School pageant. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The ingenuity of ten-year-old Bottsford enables the three clownish policemen of an isolated idyllic isle to catch thieves who have been stealing the islanders’ fish and fishing nets. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Set along the Mississippi River, this book traces the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a fugitive slave. The Great American Novel.

 

Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s children are so incredibly naughty that they must call in Nurse Matilda. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The pushcart vendors of New York take on the giant delivery trucks for control of the streets. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Three nonsense stories.

The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.

A cat and her home, an old car in a junkyard, suddenly find themselves on the road with a reckless, frenzied traveling salesman at the wheel. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

The Brown children are packed off to London and proceed to terrorize the city until Nurse Matilda takes a firm hand. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

The year is 50 BC, and all of Gaul is occupied except for one small village. How much longer can Asterix, Obelix and their friends resist the Roman Empire? Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Take an unforgettable journey through the English countryside and into the homes of its inhabitants--four-legged and otherwise--with the world’s best-loved animal doctor.

Arthur, the church mouse, is lonely with only the church cat Sampson to keep him company and decides, with the parson’s permission, to invite some other mice to join him.

When the Brown children misbehave, Nurse Matilda decides it is time to send them all to the hospital. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A collection of jokes, cartoons and humorous verse.

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Jeremiah sets out to find what happened to his grandmother’s tarts and meets some familiar nursery characters along the way, as well as a few not so familiar ones. Read online at archive.org.... View More

When he is seven years old, Thomas Tull begin growing backwards.

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It is Christmas Eve and the robbers of London set out to steal as many toys as they can, but Officer Pugh is on the job. Read online at archive.org.... View More

A game of I Spy with favorite nursery characters.

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Two Heads celebrates its birthday.

On Noah’s Ark, it’s time for bed.

As he is about to get on the bus for Camp Soonawissakit, Benjamin “Ape Face” Andrews switches bodies with his father.

Mrs. Bear wants to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, but Mr. Bear is making it very hard to do. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Nicki drops one of his new white mittens in the snow. The animals crawl into it to keep warm, until … someone sneezes! Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Bear Band is on their way to play in the Village Square for the gala ball when the band wagon gets stuck in a rut. Who can get them out? Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Owl and the Pussycat put to sea again, with honey and money and a runcible spoon.

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When two trolls make off with Treva’s family Christmas pudding, she knows something has to be done. Hedgie the hedgehog makes his first appearance. Read online at archive.org.... View More

On the second Thursday of every month, the official town burglars carry out a daring daylight burglary to give the Foxbury Police Force practice in capturing burglars, until one day things do not go as planned. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Eager to leave the hardships of home, Roger becomes part of a pirate crew, only to discover his long-lost father. Read online at archive.org.... View More

’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

In Jan Brett’s telling, the Gingerbread Baby finds a home -- and not in the fox’s stomach! Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

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