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Dragon Run (1955)
This time travel adventure takes Chris Mason and Mr. Wicker back to colonial days.
Author(s):
Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Little Old Automobile (1948)
Author(s):
Marie Ets, Aurora Labastida
Illustrator(s):
Marie Ets
Wish on the Moon (1951)
A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Morse
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
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)
Author(s):
Robert Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Smith
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
The story of a brave farmer and an evil dragon by the author of The Hobbit.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Dreams (1986)
A book of cloud pictures.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peter Spier
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
No-Sitch: The Hound (1936)
Bert is nine years old and needs a dog and No-Sitch fills the bill.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans (1957)
Author(s):
Walter Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Fierce John (1959)
After a visit to the zoo, John decides to be a fierce lion. Do lions eat ice cream?
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edward Fenton
Illustrator(s):
William du Bois
The Wonderful World of Aunt Tuddy (1958)
Aunt Tuddy receives as a present a check for $100,000 and decides to spend it at her favorite department store.
Author(s):
Jeremy Gury
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen Volume I (1823)
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Wynken, Blynken and Nod (1982)
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe --
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew.
Author(s):
Eugene Field
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
The Gift of the Magi (1972)
O. Henry’s classic tale of a husband and wife who sacrifice their prize possession to give each other Christmas gifts.
Author(s):
O. Henry
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Grammar in Rhyme (1868)
An introduction to the parts of speech. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Teapots and Quails, and Other New Nonsense (1953)
New nonsense from the master, taken from his unpublished works.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (1917)
An abridged version of Malory. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Alfred Pollard
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Dealings with the Fairies (1867)
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Hughes
The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies (1999)
A collection of stories and poems about fairies, elves and goblins.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various, Jane Watson
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Volume 1 (2009)
This is the first volume of the two-volume version of Don Rosa’s award-winning chronicle of the world’s richest duck.