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Goodnight Moon (1947)
A bunny going to bed says goodnight to his room.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Brown
Illustrator(s):
Clement Hurd
Nine Days to Christmas (1959)
Ceci is anxiously waiting to select a piñata for her first posada, the special Mexican Christmas party.
Author(s):
Marie Ets, Aurora Labastida
Illustrator(s):
Marie Ets, Aurora Labastida
The Yak, the Python and the Frog (1975)
Some little-known facts are revealed that will be useful for those thinking of choosing an exotic pet.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Jeremiah Octopus (1962)
Jeremiah goes to look for his mother’s lost oranges.
Author(s):
Margaret Zilboorg
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Naughty Little Guest (1949)
Margaret’s invisible friend Estelle is being very naughty today.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Gingerbread Rabbit (1964)
Author(s):
Randall Jarrell
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Book of Romance (1902)
A collection of romances, chiefly from the Arthurian cycle. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Et al, Leonora Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Zeee (1965)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
McDuff’s Christmas (2005)
McDuff stays up to greet Santa and helps rescue him from a snow drift.
Author(s):
Rosemary Wells
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen Volume I (1823)
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Madeline in Texas (1999)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans, John Marciano
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Anno’s Sundial (1987)
Explains how the earth’s movements around the sun and the resulting movement of shadows have been used to tell time. Includes illustrations that pop up or fold out to demonstrate how sundials work.
Author(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
McDuff’s Wild Romp (2005)
McDuff visits Aunt Frieda for Sunday dinner, but her cat is not amused.
Author(s):
Rosemary Wells
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Aesop’s Fables (1912)
Author(s):
Vernon Jones
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Irish Fairy Tales (1920)
A collection of Irish fairy tales. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
James Stephens
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Allies Fairy Book (1916)
Eleven fairy tales, one from each of the allied countries at the beginning of World War I. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Edmund Gosse
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Underfoot: An Everyday Guide to Exploring the American Past (1976)
A guide to exploring local history.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
The Golden Picture Book of Words: How They Look and What They Tell (1954)
This is a later version of this picture dictionary.
Author(s):
Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
C. H. De Witt
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
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
The first of the desert island castaway adventures. This is the fourth edition. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous