Contents
- Complete longer works are listed in bold text
- ALPHABETS
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- JOHANN AMOS COMENIUS (1592–1670)
From Orbis Pictus - The Childes Guide (1667)
- In Adams Fall
- A Little Book for Children (ca. 1705)
- A Was an Archer
- The Picture Alphabet (ca. 1830)
- A Was an Archer
- The Instructive Alphabet (1814)
- At Early Dawn
- The Child’s New Play-Thing (1742)
- A Was an Apple-Pie
- KATE GREENAWAY (1846–1901)
From A Apple Pie - EDWARD LEAR (1812–1888)
The Absolutely Abstemious Ass - THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL (1904–1991)
From Dr. Seuss’s ABC - ALICE PROVENSEN (b. 1918) and MARTIN PROVENSEN (1916–1987)
A Peaceable Kingdom - The Shaker Abecedarius
- CHAPBOOKS
- Tom Thumb (1790–1810)
- Jack the Giant Killer (ca. 1845–50)
- The History of Goody Two-Shoes (ca. 1800)
- Children in the Wood (ca. 1800)
- The History of Sir Richard Whittington and His Cat (ca. 1840)
- The Art of Making Money Plenty (1817)
- The New-York Cries (1826)
- PRIMERS AND READERS
- The New England Primer (1690)
- JOHN NEWBERY (1713–1767)
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book - ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD (1743–1825)
Instructive Lessons, Nursery Library Edition - New Canadian Reader (Twentieth-Century Edition) (1901)
- Preface
- Chicken Little
- Fun with Dick and Jane (1940)
- Jane Helps
- ARNOLD LOBEL (1933–1987)
A List
The Letter
- Texts and Contexts: Writing
- Writing sheet from 1685
- JOHN NEWBERY (1713–1767)
Letters on the Most Common, as Well as Important Occasions of Life - Preface
- Table of Contents
- Treadmill (a copy book)
- Happy Hippos (Twentieth-century educational publication)
- LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
- FAIRY TALES
- CHARLES PERRAULT (1628–1703)
The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots - SARAH FIELDING (1710–1768)
The Governess; or, Little Female Academy - The Story of the Cruel Giant Barbarico, the Good Giant Benefico, and the Little Pretty Dwarf Mignon
- JEANNE-MARIE LePRINCE DE BEAUMONT (1711–1780)
Beauty and the Beast - JACOB GRIMM (1785–1863) and WILHELM GRIMM (1786–1859)
Hansel and Gretel - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (1805–1875)
The Nightingale - GEORGE MacDONALD (1824–1905)
The Light Princess - FRANK STOCKTON (1834–1902)
The Griffin and the Minor Canon - OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900)
The Happy Prince - KENNETH GRAHAME (1859–1932)
The Reluctant Dragon - JOHN B. GRUELLE (1880–1938)
The Discontented King - WANDA G¡G (1893–1946)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - LLOYD ALEXANDER (b. 1924)
The Truthful Harp - JOAN AIKEN (1924–2004)
The Faithless Lollybird - TED HUGHES (1930–1998)
The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights - JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939)
Jack and the Devil’s Daughter - JANE YOLEN (b. 1939)
The Lady and the Merman - ROBERT MUNSCH (b. 1945)
The Paper Bag Princess - LAURENCE YEP (b. 1948)
The Phantom Heart - MICHAEL LACAPA (b. 1955)
Antelope Woman: An Antelope Folktale
- Texts and Contexts: Little Red Riding Hood
- CHARLES PERRAULT (1628–1703)
Little Red Riding Hood - JACOB GRIMM (1785–1863) and WILHELM GRIMM (1786–1859)
Little Red Cap - CHARLES MARELLE (1827–ca. 1892)
The True History of Little Golden-hood - WALTER DE LA MARE (1873–1956)
Little Red Riding-Hood - CATHERINE STORR (1913–2001)
Little Polly Riding Hood - ROALD DAHL (1916–1990)
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf - TOMI UNGERER (b. 1931)
Little Red Riding Hood - TONY ROSS (b. 1938)
Little Red Hood: A Classic Story Bent Out of Shape - MICHAEL EMBERLEY (b. 1960)
Ruby - FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK (b. 1962)
Wolf
- ANIMAL FABLES
- SAMUEL CROXALL (d. 1752)
Fables of Aesop and Others - The Fox without a Tail
- The Fox and the Crow
- WILLIAM GODWIN (1756–1836)
Fables Ancient and Modern - The Dog in the Manger
- The Ass in the Lion’s Skin
- WALTER CRANE (1845–1915)
The Baby’s Own Aesop - The Blind Doe
- The Crow and the Pitcher
- The Eagle and the Crow
- W. H. D. ROUSE (1863–1950)
"The Giant Crab" and Other Tales from Old India - The Crocodile and the Monkey
- The Talkative Tortoise
- RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)
Just-So Stories for Little Children - How the Camel Got His Hump
- JAMES THURBER (1894–1961)
Further Fables for Our Time - The Fox and the Crow
- ASHLEY BRYAN (b. 1923)
"The Ox of the Wonderful Horns" and Other African Tales - Tortoise, Hare, and the Sweet Potatoes
- RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925)
The Sea-Thing Child - CLASSICAL MYTHS
- WILLIAM GODWIN (1756–1856)
The Pantheon - The Minotaur
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804–1864)
Tanglewood Tales - The Minotaur
- CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819–1875)
The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children - How Theseus Slew the Minotaur
- LEON GARFIELD (1921–1996) and EDWARD BLISHEN (1920–1996)
The God Beneath the Sea - The Seeds of Power
- PADRAIC COLUM (1881–1972)
From The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy - LEGENDS
- ROBERT BROWNING (1812–1889)
The Pied Piper of Hamelin - History of Robin Hood (1860)
- HOWARD PYLE (1853–1911)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Robin Hood and Little John
- ROGER LANCELYN GREEN (1918–1987)
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915)
From The Double Life of Pocahontas - JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939)
John Henry - MARY POPE OSBORNE (b. 1949)
Davy Crockett - RELIGION: JUDEO-CHRISTIAN STORIES
- JAMES JANEWAY (ca. 1636–1674)
A Token for Children - A Preface Containing Directions
- JOHN BUNYAN (1628–1688)
The Pilgrim’s Progress - ISAAC WATTS (1674–1748)
Divine Songs for Children - Against Quarrelling and Fighting
- Against Idleness and Mischief
- An Evening Song
- The Sluggard
- Innocent Play
- A Cradle Hymn
- HESBA STRETTON (1832–1911)
Jessica’s First Prayer - Chapter III. An Old Friend in a New Dress
- Chapter IV. Peeps into Fairy-Land
- Chapter V. A New World Opens
- Chapter VI. The First Prayer
- ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1904–1991)
Hanukkah in the Poorhouse - TIM RICE (b. 1944)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat - FANTASY
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- CATHERINE SINCLAIR (1800–1864)
Holiday House - Chapter IX. Uncle David’s Nonsensical Stories about Giants and Fairies
- LUCY LANE CLIFFORD (1846–1929)
The New Mother - L. FRANK BAUM (1856–1919)
The Capture of Father Time - E. NESBIT (1858–1924)
The Phoenix and the Carpet - RUTH PARK (b. 1923)
Playing Beatie Bow - LLOYD ALEXANDER (b. 1924)
The Book of Three - JON SCIESZKA (b. 1954)
Summer Reading Is Killing Me! - SCIENCE FICTION
- H. G. WELLS (1886–1946)
The Stolen Body - ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907–1988)
Podkayne of Mars: Her Life and Times - GEORGE R. R. MARTIN (b. 1948)
The Last Super Bowl Game - VONDA M. McINTYRE (b. 1948)
Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand - CRAIG STRETE (b. 1950)
The Bleeding Man - PICTURE BOOKS
- Color
- HEINRICH HOFFMANN (1809–1894)
From Struwwelpeter - KATE GREENAWAY (1846–1901)
From Under the Window - RANDOLPH CALDECOTT (1846–1886)
From Sing a Song of Sixpence - BLANCHE FISHER WRIGHT
From The Real Mother Goose - BERTHA UPTON (1849–1912), with illustrator FLORENCE UPTON (1873–1922)
From The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg - HELEN BANNERMAN (1862–1946)
From The Story of Little Black Sambo - JULIUS LESTER (b. 1939), with illustrator JERRY PINKNEY (b. 1939)
From Sam and the Tigers - BEATRIX POTTER (1866–1943)
From The Tale of Peter Rabbit
From a letter to Noël Moore (1893)
"Now my dears" (Warne Edition, 1902)
"Now run along" (Bantam, 1982)
"One day they were allowed" (Ladybird Edition, 1987)
Ladybird "book of the film" version (1992) - SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (1872–1949)
From Clever Bill - MARJORIE FLACK (1897–1958)
From Angus and the Ducks - JEAN de BRUNHOFF (1899–1937)
From The Story of Babar - ROBERT L. MAY (1905–1976)
From Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - ROGER DUVOISIN (1904–1980)
From The Happy Lion - MAURICE SENDAK (b. 1928)
From Where the Wild Things Are - EZRA JACK KEATS (1916–1983)
From The Snowy Day - THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL (1904–1991)
From Green Eggs and Ham - ARNOLD LOBEL (1933–1987)
From Frog and Toad Are Friends - RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934)
From Fungus the Bogeyman - PAT HUTCHINS (b. 1942)
From Rosie’s Walk - ERIC CARLE (b. 1929)
From The Very Hungry Caterpillar - RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925), with illustrator QUENTIN BLAKE (b. 1932)
From How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen - RAYMOND BRIGGS (b. 1934)
From The Snowman - ALLAN AHLBERG (b. 1938), with illustrator JANET AHLBERG (1944–1994)
From Each Peach Pear Plum - JENNY WAGNER (b. 1939), with illustrator RON BROOKS (b. 1948)
From John Brown, Rose, and the Midnight Cat - JOHN BURNINGHAM (b. 1936)
From Come Away from the Water, Shirley - DONALD HALL (b. 1928), with illustrator BARBARA COONEY (1917–2000)
From The Ox-Cart Man - MEM FOX (b. 1946), with illustrator JULIE VIVAS (b. 1947)
From Possum Magic - GABRIELLE VINCENT [MONIQUE MARTIN] (1928–2000)
From Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine - DAVID McKEE (b. 1935)
From I Hate My Teddy Bear - DENNIS LEE (b. 1938), with illustrator MARY-LOUISE GAY (b. 1952)
From Lizzy’s Lion - LYNLEY DODD (b. 1941)
From Hairy Maclary’s Caterwaul Caper - DAVID MACAULAY (b. 1946)
From Black and White - JON SCIESZKA (b. 1954), with illustrator LANE SMITH (b. 1959)
From The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales - Black-and-White
- WANDA G¡G (1893–1946)
From Millions of Cats - MUNRO LEAF (1905–1976), with illustrator ROBERT LAWSON (1892–1957)
From The Story of Ferdinand - ROBERT McCLOSKEY (1914–2003)
From Make Way for Ducklings - EDWARD ARDIZZONE (1900–1979)
From Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain - FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE (b. 1919), with illustrator EDWARD GOREY (1952–2000)
From The Shrinking of Treehorn - RUSSELL HOBAN (b. 1925), with illustrator JAMES MARSHALL (1942–1992)
From Dinner at Alberta’s - ALFRED NOYES (1880–1958), with illustrator CHARLES KEEPING (1924–1988)
From The Highwayman - PATRICIA C. McKISSACK (b. 1944), with illustrator BRIAN PINKNEY (b. 1961)
From The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural - CHRIS VAN ALLSBERG (b. 1949)
From The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - DAVID MACAULAY (b. 1946)
BAAA - COMICS
- From Funny Folks (1887)
- From Impossible Adventures (ca. 1888)
- From The Yellow Kid, No. 1 (1897)
- WINSOR McCAY (1869–1934)
From Little Nemo in Slumberland - From The Funnies, No. 1 (1929)
- HERGÉ (GEORGES RÉMI, 1907–1993)
From Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930)
From Tintin in America (1954) - WALT DISNEY (1901–1966) and FLOYD GOTTFREDSON (1905–1986)
From Mickey Mouse and the Pirate Submarine (1935) - JOE SHUSTER (1914–1992), with text by JERRY SIEGEL (1914–1996)
From Action Comics, No. 1 (1938) - FRANK HAMPSON (1918–1985)
From Eagle, No. 1 (1950) - ALBERT UDERZO (b. 1927), with text by RENÉ GOSCINNY (1926–1977)
From Asterix in Britain - Marvel Comics
- SAL BUSCEMA and JOE SINNOTT
From The Hulk, No. 292 - STEVEN GRANT, JOHN TARTAGLIONE, JOE SINNOTT, JIM NOVAK, MARIE SEVERIN
From The Life of Pope John Paul II - VERSE
- Lullabies and Baby Songs
- All the Pretty Little Horses ("Hush-a-bye don’t you cry, go to sleep you little baby")
- Go to Sleepy, Little Baby
- Go to sleep, little baby
- Rocky Bye Baby ("Rocky bye baby, go to sleepy little baby")
- Bye, O my baby
- Baby, baby, naughty baby
- Baby and I ("Baby and I / Were baked in a pie")
- Bye, baby bunting
- Hush-a-bye, baby
- Hush-a-ba, babie, lie still, lie still
- Hush-a-bye, lie still and sleep
- Cradle Song ("Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree top")
- Hush-a-bye a baa-lamb
- Baby, lullaby!
- Raisins and Almonds ("Under Baby’s cradle in the night")
- All Through the Night ("Sleep my child and peace attend thee")
- He’ll toil for thee the whole day long
- ROBERT ELICE
The Little Orphan ("Lie still my pretty one")
Sleep, baby, sleep - HENRY KIRKE WHITE
Lullaby of a Convict to Her Child ("Sleep, baby mine, enkerchieft on my bosom") - EUGENE FIELD
Wynken, Blynken and Nod - Nursery Verse
- How many days has my baby to play?
- Jeremiah, blow the fire
- Daffy-Down-Dilly has come up to town
- Lavender’s blue, diddle, diddle
- Ride a cock horse
- Baa, baa, black sheep
- Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep
- Little boy blue, come, blow up your horn
- Three blind mice
- Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail
- There was an owl lived in an oak
- Dickery, dickery, dare
- The man in the moon
- Pease porridge hot
- Hey diddle diddle
- Jack and Jill went up the hill
- Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
- There was an old woman called Nothing-at-all
- There was an old woman / And nothing she had
- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
- Poor old Robinson Crusoe!
- For the want of a nail
- One fine day in the middle of the night
- Doctor Faustus was a good man
- Blessed be the memory
- Miss Buss and Miss Beale
- Three wise men of Gotham
- I’ll tell you a story
- Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town
- Riddles
- Riddle me, riddle me ree
- Hyder iddle diddle dell
- JOHN COTTON (b. 1925)
Totleigh Riddles - 1 ("Insubstantial I can fill lives")
- 2 ("We are a crystal zoo")
- 3 ("I reveal your secrets")
- 4 ("My tensions and pressures")
- 5 ("Containing nothing")
- 6 ("Silent I invade cities")
- 7 ("Rain polishes")
- 8 ("I work while you sleep")
- 9 ("A great cold cinder")
- 10 ("I am one of an endless family")
- 11 ("Painted or plain")
- 12 ("My momentary delights")
- Texts and Contexts: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- JANE TAYLOR (1783–1824)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star - LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat - UNK WHITE
Twinkle, Twinkle, Southern Cross - ANONYMOUS
Ringo, Ringo, Ringo Starr - JOHN AGARD (b. 1949)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Firefly
- Playground Verse
- How Many Miles to Babylon
- Early in the morning when the cock began to crow
- Down to the carpet you must go
- I do love / Shorten’in bread
- Little Sally Water / Sitting in a saucer
- Little Sally Walker / Sittin’ in the saucer
- All hid?
- Nonsense Verse
- EDWARD LEAR (1812–1888)
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Jumblies - LEWIS CARROLL (1832–1898)
How doth the little crocodile
Jabberwocky - NANCY WILLARD (b. 1936)
A Visit to William Blake’s Inn - Wm. Blake’s Inn for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
- The Wise Cow Makes Way, Room, and Believe
- Blake Leads a Walk on the Milky Way
- MARGARET MAHY (b. 1936)
17 Kings and 42 Elephants - Poems and Poetry Collections
- CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830–1894)
Sing-Song - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850–1894)
A Child’s Garden of Verses - WALTER DE LA MARE (1873–1956)
Peacock Pie - ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985)
The Penny Fiddle - RANDALL JARRELL (1914–1965)
The Bat-Poet - CHARLES CAUSLEY (1917–2003)
Early in the Morning - LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)
Some of the Days of Everett Anderson - PAT MORA (b. 1942)
Confetti - MARILYN NELSON (b. 1946)
Carver - Out of Slave’s Ransom
- Prayer of the Ivory-Handled Knife
- Washboard Wizard
- A Ship Without a Rudder
- Curve Breaker
- My People
- From an Alabama Farmer
- The Sweet-Hearts
- The Joy of Sewing
- Veil Raisers
- How a Dream Dies
- The Wild Garden
- Professor Carver’s Bible Class
- Friends in the Clan
- Driving Dr. Carver
- Baby Carver
- Last Talk with Jim Hardwick
- GRACE NICHOLS (b. 1950)
Come On into My Tropical Garden - PLAYS
- J. M. BARRIE (1860–1937)
Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up - BARBARA FIELD (b. 1933)
A Christmas Carol - LAURENCE YEP (b. 1948)
Dragonwings - BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION
- From The Father’s Legacy; or, Faithful Counsels of a Good Father to His Children and Friends (1678)
- JOHN BARNARD (1685–1764)
From A Present for an Apprentice: or, A Sure Guide to Gain Both Esteem and an Estate - PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694–1773)
Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son - Awkwardness and Bashfulness
- Commonplace Observations on Matrimony and the Clergy
- Duties of a Lady’s Maid (1825)
- Familiarity with Superiors
- Stays and Corsets
- MINNA THOMAS ANTRIM (b. 1861)
Don’ts for Girls: A Manual of Mistakes - DORA LANGLOIS (ca. 1850–ca. 1912)
The Child: A Mother’s Advice to Her Daughters - ROBERT BADEN-POWELL (1857–1941)
From Rovering to Success: A Book of Life-Sport for Young Men - ROBIE H. HARRIS (b. 1940), with illustrator MICHAEL EMBERLEY (b. 1960)
It’s Perfectly Normal - The Bird and the Bee
- Lots of Questions: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
- LIFE WRITING
- ANONYMOUS (1840)
From Facts to Correct Fancies; or, Short Narratives compiled from the Biography of Remarkable Women, written for children, by a Mother - CLARA L. BALFOUR (1808–1878)
Women Worth Emulating - Chapter III. Miss Caroline Herschel
- CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823–1901)
A Book of Golden Deeds of All Times and Lands - What Is a Golden Deed?
- Fathers and Sons (1642–1798)
- THE BROWNIES’ BOOK (1920–1921)
Benjamin Banneker
America’s First Martyr-Patriot (Crispus Attucks)
The Story of Phillis Wheatley
The Story of Harriet Tubman
"The Bravest of the Brave" (Lillie Buffam Chace Wyman) - ANNE FRANK (1929–1945)
The Diary of a Young Girl - July 11, 1942
- July 11, 1943
- Jan. 2, 1944
- Feb. 12, 1944
- Feb. 23, 1944
- Aug. 1, 1944
- JEAN FRITZ (b. 1915)
Homesick: My Own Story - MILTON MELTZER (b. 1915)
Benjamin Franklin: The New American - Chapter 6. Improve Yourself, Improve Your Community
- Chapter 7. Inventor and Scientist
- Chapter 8. Disarming the Clouds of Heaven
- ADVENTURE STORIES
- DANIEL DEFOE (ca. 1660–1731)
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (a version for children, 1823) - ERNEST THOMPSON SETON (1860–1946)
Raggylug: The Story of a Cottontail Rabbit - A. A. MILNE (1882–1956)
Winnie-the Pooh - Chapter VIII. In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
- SHANNON GARST (1894–1981)
James Bowie and His Famous Knife - E. L. KONIGSBURG (b. 1930)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - SCHOOL STORIES
- SARAH FIELDING (1710–1768)
From The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy - THOMAS HUGHES (1822–1896)
Tom Brown’s Schooldays - Chapter V. Rugby and Football
- Chapter VI. After the Match
- RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)
Stalky & Co. - An Unsavory Interlude
- EVELYN SHARP (1869–1955)
In School - Anticipations
- The Girls
- ELEANOR ESTES (1906–1988)
The Hundred Dresses - AIDAN CHAMBERS (b. 1934)
The Present Takers - ALMA FLOR ADA (b. 1938)
My Name is MarÌa Isabel - TIM WYNNE-JONES (b. 1948)
Tweedledee and Tweedledead - NIKKI GRIMES (b. 1950)
Bronx Masquerade - DOMESTIC FICTION
- MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797)
Original Stories from Real Life - MARIA EDGEWORTH (1768–1849)
The Parent’s Assistant - Lazy Lawrence
- The Birthday Present
- MARY MARTHA (BUTT) SHERWOOD (1775–1851)
From The History of the Fairchild Family - CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE (1823–1901)
From Village Children - A Patchwork Fever
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832–1888)
Psyche’s Art - FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT (1849–1924)
Editha’s Burglar - L. M. (LUCY MAUD) MONTGOMERY (1874–1942)
Each in His Own Tongue - BEVERLY (BUNN) CLEARY (b. 1916)
Ramona and Her Father - LENSEY (CHAO) NAMIOKA (b. 1929)
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear - ROCH CARRIER (b. 1937)
The Hockey Sweater - MILDRED D. TAYLOR (b. 1943)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - BRUCE BROOKS (b. 1950)
What Hearts - Out
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