Books
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Miss Hickory (1946)
Miss Hickory has a hickory nut for a head, but her body is an applewood twig.
The Ballad of the White Horse (2001)
A poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great.
Before the gods that made the gods
Had seen their sunrise pass,
The White Horse of the White Horse Vale
Was cut out of the grass.
The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1947)
Twitted by a parrot about his looks, the baby elephant is unhappy until he meets some beautiful creatures just like himself. As with most of the early Little Golden Books, the later editions were much shortened.
Kathryn Jackson
Bevis (1932)
Two English boys camp out on an island in a pond.
The Church Mouse (1972)
Arthur, the church mouse, is lonely with only the church cat Sampson to keep him company and decides, with the parson’s permission, to invite some other mice to join him.
Gentle Julia (1922)
Julia Atwater’s large family connection, and especially her niece Florence, takes an intense interest in her social life. Read online at archive.org.
C. Allan Gilbert
Stuart Little (1945)
Stuart Little is only two inches tall, but he has great adventures.
Daddy-Long-Legs (1966)
A young woman who grew up in an orphange writes regular letters to the man who is paying her way through college.
Ship’s Cook Ginger (1977)
Tim and Ginger are off on another sea voyage. When the crew is laid low by food poisoning the two friends must come to the rescue.
The Mother’s Day Mice (1986)
Three mice find presents for their mother on Mother’s Day.
The Trouble with Trolls (1992)
The Trolls decide they want a dog and they have their heart set on Tuffi, but Treva figures out a way to trick them and rescue her dog.
The Night Before Christmas (1998)
’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The Three Snow Bears (2007)
In this variation on a familiar tale, the little girl’s name is Aloo-ki and the three bears live in an igloo north of the arctic circle.
Monster Munch (1984)
A ‘Daisy Chain’ of six pictures with verses.
Janet Ahlberg
The Jolly Postman Postcard Collection (1994)
Postcards of thirty famous scenes from the adventures of the Jolly Postman.
See the Rabbit (1998)
An early book for babies.
Too Many Mittens (1958)
When Donny lost one of his red mittens, the whole neighborhood turned to and brought every lost red mitten they found to his house, until Donny’s family had more mittens than they knew what to do with.
Luigi and the Long-Nosed Soldier (1963)
Every Saturday Luigi takes the bus from Italy to Switzerland for his violin lesson with Professor Tagliatini. The new young soldier with the long nose who checks for smugglers steals his cakes from his lunch box, until one day Professor Tagliatini teaches him a lesson and reveals the real smugglers.
Ten Little Bears (1999)
A counting rhyme featuring teddy bears.
And So My Garden Grows (1969)
A collection of nursery rhymes that tell the tale of two children as they wander through towns and palaces of nineteenth-century Italy.
