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Some books have stood the test of time and are masterpieces of the whole heritage of children's literature. We call them the "All-Time Great Children's Books." We abbreviate that as "ATGCB".
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by a compiler.
On our Anthologies page, we provide the top 500 anthologies from the whole heritage of children’s literature.
Historical Books are a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.
A Reference Book is filled with confirmed facts about children's books.
The information is intended to be found quickly when needed.
Reference works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than read from beginning to end.
A Critical Book identifies, summarizes, and evaluates the ideas and information an author has presented.
GENRE BOOK
All books are either non-fiction or fiction.
Those two types of books can be further divided into many different sub-types, called "genres."
A Genre is a category of book based on stylistic criteria such as tone, content, or setting. There are many Genre of books. We provide more than 150 Genre.
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AAA
ABCs/Numbers/Colors/Words
Adventure
African
African American
Airplanes
American
American Indian
Animal Fantasy
Art and Architecture
Australian
BBB
Babies
Bears
Biblical
Biography
Board Book
Boarding School
Boy Scouts
Boys Growing Up
British
CCC
Calendar
Camping
Canadian
Cats
Circus
Comic Strip
Cookbook
DDD
Dogs
Dolls
EEE
Engineering
Epic
Essays
Etiquette
European
Exhibition Catalog
Exploration – America
Exploration – Polar
Exploration – Africa
FFF
Fables
Fables (La Fontaine/Aesop)
Fairy Tales – Classic
Fairy Tales – Modern
Families
Fantasy – miscellaneous
Fantasy – American
Fantasy – English
Far East
Farm Life
Fiction – novel
Fiction – short story
Folk Tales
GGG
Games
Geography
Ghosts and Ghouls
Girls Growing Up
Gods and Heroes – Greek
Gods and Heroes – Norse
Gods and Heroes – Roman
HHH
Health
Historical Fiction – Age of Exploration
Historical Fiction – Ancient
Historical Fiction – Civil War
Historical Fiction – Colonial
Historical Fiction – Crusades
Historical Fiction – Egyptian
Historical Fiction – Greek
Historical Fiction – Middle Ages
Historical Fiction – Napoleonic Wars
Historical Fiction – Pioneers
Historical Fiction – Renaissance
Historical Fiction – Revolutionary
Historical Fiction – Roman
Historical Fiction – Vikings
Historical Fiction – World War I
Historical Fiction – World War II
History – American
History – Ancient
History – British
History – European
History – French
History – German
History – Irish
History – Medieval
History – Scotch
Hobbies
Holidays
Horses
How-To
Humorous
III
Irish
JJJ
Japanese
KKK
King Arthur
LLL
Letters
MMM
Magic
Mexican
Mice
Monsters
Mystery
Myth
NNN
Nature – Amphibians and Reptiles
Nature – Birds
Nature – Dinosaurs
Nature – Fish
Nature – Flowers
Nature – Insects
Nature – Mammals
Nature – Plants
Nature – Trees
Nonsense
Nursery Rhymes
OOO
Orphans
PPP
Paper Dolls
Pets
Picture Book
Pioneers
Play
Poetry – Ballads
Poetry – Epic
Poetry – Humorous
Poetry – Lyric
Poetry- Miscellaneous
RRR
Reference
Religious
Robin Hood
Robinsonnade
Romance
Running away Home
SSS
Science Fiction
Sea Stories
School – kindergarten
School – grade school
School – high school
School – college
Science – Astronomy
Science – Biology
Science – Geography
Science – Mathematics
Science – Palaeontology
Science – Physics
Science – Chemistry
Social Studies
Songs
South American
Sports – Baseball
Sports – Basketball
Sports – Football
Sports – Field
Sports – Miscellaneous
TTT
Toy Book
Toys
Trains
Travel and Exploration
Trucks/Cars/Big Machines
True Life Animal
VVV
Vocational
YYY
Young Entrepreneur
ZZZ
Zoo
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OMNIBUS
An omnibus, or "omnibus edition," is a book containing multiple works by the same or, more rarely, different authors.
Usually two or more of the works have been previously published as books.
However, a collection of shorter works, or shorter works collected with one previous book, may also be known as an omnibus.
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