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Bibliography
For Our Children (1991)
This is an anthology of poetry, song and rhymes with illustrations by noted children’s illustrators.
Tomie dePaola
Michael Hague
Steven Kellogg
David Macaulay
David Wiesner
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Fortune’s Favorite and other Famous Fairy Tales (1871)
Six fairy tales from Fairy Tales from All Nations. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
The Frog Prince (1874)
Would you kiss a frog? Read for free online at Internet Archive.
A Gaping-Wide-Mouth Waddling Frog (1866)
A nonsense poem.
Here is the game based on it at archive.org.
Another copy at FSU.
Girls and Boys (1913)
A series of brief scenes of children at play, with illustrations. Read online at Internet Archive in French, and in English.
Goody Two Shoes (1874)
A tale of two orphans and how they eventually prospered. Read for Free online at Internet Archive.
Goody Two Shoes Picture Book (1901)
An omnibus containing Goody Two Shoes, Aladdin and The Yellow Dwarf. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library. NOTE: that link downloads a very large file.
Grammar in Rhyme (1868)
An introduction to the parts of speech. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Histories, or Tales of Past Times (1729)
This is the first English translation of Charles Perrault's collection of fairy tales, containing:
- The Little Red Riding Hood
- The Fairy (Diamonds and Toads)
- The Blue Beard
- The Sleeping Beauty (in the Wood)
- The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots
- Cinderilla, or the Little Glass Slipper
- Riquet à la Houppe (Riquet of the Tuft)
- Little Poucet and his Brothers (Hop o' My Thumb)
as well as an adult 'novel' - The Discreet Princess, or the Adventures of Finetta - by Perrault's relative Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon.
Only a single copy of this first edition is known to exist.
This edition contains the morals, which are often left out, particularly in modern editions.
The “House that Jack Built” Alphabet (1865)
This version includes outline pictures, opposite the colored plates, to be filled in by the user.
Household Stories Collected by the Brothers Grimm (1853)
This edition was published in two volumes. Read online at Internet Archive: Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Household Tales and Popular Stories (1862)
This selection of the tales and stories was also published under the title Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Other Popular Stories. Read online at Google Books.
Humpty Dumpty and Other Mother Goose Songs (1943)
A collection of favorite Mother Goose songs, with music.
The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales (2004)
Ten stories by different authors and illustrators about cats.
Read online at archive.org.
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Ice Cream Is Good (1948)
An advertising piece for the National Dairy Council.
The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Progress (1869)
Originally written as letters to American newspapers, this travelogue includes a large dollop of satire on the Americans abroad and the Europeans who engaged to fleece them. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1875)
Trading his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans works out in the end. Read for free online at the Toronto Public Library. NOTE: this link downloads a very large file.
Jolly Numbers Book One New Edition (1944)
A primary grades arithmetic workbook with a cover by Robert Lawson.
Guy T. Buswell
Lenore John
Robert Lawson
Just for Fun (1940)
The master illustrator brings new life to a collection of 13 traditional fairy tales and poems.
King Luckieboy’s Party (1870)
The months come to greet King Luckieboy at his birthday party.