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A Little Princess Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905)
Author(s):
Frances Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ethel Franklin
The Wheel on the School (1954)
Overcoming many obstacles, a group of children work together with their Dutch village to bring the storks back.
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak
While Mrs. Coverlet was Away (1958)
Mrs. Coverlet is called away to care for her daughter and the three Persever children are left in charge of themselves as their father is in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Mary Nash
Illustrator(s):
Garret Price
The Time Traders (1958)
The ancient world is contrasted with the modern world in a new approach to the time-transfer theme.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andre Norton
Illustrator(s):
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Katy No-Pocket (1944)
Katy the kangaroo has no pocket for her baby so she goes to the big city to find one.
Author(s):
Emmy Payne
Illustrator(s):
H. A. Rey
The Farm Book: Bob and Betty Visit Uncle John (1910)
Two children spend from plow time to first snow on a farm when everything was still done by hand and horse. Read online at BPL.
Author(s):
Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
Boyd Smith
A Journey to Matecumbe (1961)
Author(s):
Robert Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Joseph Papin
Nelly Custis Daughter of Mount Vernon (1937)
Nelly Custis was the granddaughter of Martha Washington by her first husband. She was adopted by George and Martha at the age of four and grew up at Mount Vernon.
Author(s):
Rose MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Honk the Moose (1935)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Bertie Wooster Sees it Through (1955)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Dick Dodge
Buffalo and Beaver (1960)
Author(s):
Stephen Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
Sabre Pilot (1956)
Kirk Owen signs up for the Air Force and is assigned to mechanic’s school where he trains on the F-86 jet fighter. When he gets a chance to attend pilot’s training he jumps at it and winds up fighting in the skies over North Korea.
Author(s):
Stephen Meader
Illustrator(s):
John Polgreen
Hey, Wake Up! (2000)
Enough of going to bed, let’s get up and play!
Author(s):
Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s):
Sandra Boynton
Tales from Shakespeare (1923)
Seventeen favorite plays by the Bard of Avon.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham
The Story of the Three Little Pigs (1904)
Author(s):
Leslie Brooke
Illustrator(s):
Leslie Brooke
Asterix and the Goths (1974)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
The Cave (1950)
John Walters and the members of the Tomahawk Club undertake the exploration of a cave he has discovered.
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
Geoffrey Whittam
The Enchanted Castle (1908)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888)
An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Ivanhoe (1913)
A tale of the Saxons and the Normans in the days of Richard the Lion Heart. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Walter Scott
Illustrator(s):
Boyd Smith