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The Door into Summer (1956)

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Engineer Dan gets swindled by his fiancé and business partner and so he goes on "the long sleep". In the 1970 of this world, a person can be frozen to reawaken at a later time, while investments continue to grow with compound interest. Read on... View More

Author(s): Robert Heinlein
Illustrator(s): Milford Hunter

Memoirs of a London Doll (1922)

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Wooden doll, Maria Poppet, describes her many adventures in 19th century London. Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Mrs. Fairstar
Illustrator(s): Emma Brock

A Wind in the Willows Christmas (2000)

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In this excerpt from The Wind in the Willows, mole returns to his home, having spent the summer and autumn with his friend rat. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

Favorite Fairy Tales (1949)

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A collection of traditional fairy tales.

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Four Famous Just So Stories (1942)

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A boxed set containing The Elephant’s Child, and How the Camel Got His Hump, and How the Leopard Got His Spots, and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Little Golden Mother Goose (1957)

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Seventy-five favorite Mother Goose rhymes.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Long Trains Roll (1944)

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Randy MacDougal stumbles on evidence of a sabotage ring aimed at the trains passing through Calico Gap and contacts the FBI.

Author(s): Stephen Meader
Illustrator(s): Edward Shenton

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

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“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot Browne

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1975)

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A carousel format version of this perennial favorite.

Author(s): Chris Conover
Illustrator(s): Chris Conover

The Cuckoo Clock (1877)

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An orphan girl finds a friend in the cuckoo clock who takes her on magical journeys. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Ennis Graham
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

The Little Mother Goose (1918)

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This is a smaller format version of Jessie Willcox Smith’s magnum opus, containing more than six hundred nursery rhymes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Jessie Smith
Illustrator(s): Jessie Smith

Philomena (1955)

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When her Babushka dies, Philomena goes to Prague to find her aunt.

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Kate Greenaway’s Almanack and Diary for 1897 (1896)

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This final issue included blank pages for notes. Read online at NYPL.... View More

Author(s): Kate Greenaway
Illustrator(s): Kate Greenaway

Hornblower’s Triumph (1965)

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This omnibus edition of Commodore Hornblower (The Commodore) and Lord Hornblower is edited for younger readers and is Volume 4 of the Cadet Edition.... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Geoffrey Whittam

Go, Team, Go! (1954)

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When the varsity players go on strike, it’s up to the JV to defend the school’s title at State.

Author(s): John Tunis
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888)

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An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Robert Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Golden Picture Book of Words: How They Look and What They Tell (1954)

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This is a later version of this picture dictionary.

Author(s): Jane Werner
Illustrator(s): C. H. De Witt

Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes (1876)

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Uses some at least of the material from Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales. Read online at Toronto Public Library. Note: that link opens very slowly.... View More

Author(s): Unknown
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane, Et al, John Tenniel, Alfred Crowquill

Donald Duck in Lost in the Andes (1984)

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This volume includes Barks stories from Donald Duck Four Color Comics one hundred seventy-eight through two hundred twenty-three.

Author(s): Carl Barks
Illustrator(s): Carl Barks

E. C. Segar’s Popeye Volume 6 (2012)

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This volume reprints the Thimble Theater dailies and color Sunday strips from 1937 to 1938. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time in the daily strip on January 17, 1929.

Author(s): E. C. Segar
Illustrator(s): E. C. Segar

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