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The adventures of a city bred cat and mouse when they go to the country in Connecticut to visit their friend, Chester Cricket. A sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.”

Velvet enters her horse, The Piebald, in England’s premier steeplechase -- The Grand National.

Jane is abused as a child by her aunt and at school and develops a philosophy of radical self-centeredness. One of the first modern novels.

The Prodigious Hickey has moved on but life continues at The Lawrenceville School. Read online at Hathitrust.

When Lottie arrives at summer camp, Lisa discovers she has a double and it soon becomes apparent -- a twin! This book was the basis for the movie The Parent Trap.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the widow of a pirate who lives in a house built upside down. When worried mothers call her about Jane or Darci’s behavior problems, she always has a solution.

Mrs. Coverlet is called away to care for her daughter and the three Persever children are left in charge of themselves as their father is in New Zealand.

Two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep with the son of one caught between.

Published in the U.K. under the title “Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir.”

This volume reprints the Thimble Theater daily strips from 1928 and 1929. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time on January 17, 1929.

Married to the Queen of Attolia, Eugenides must consolidate their power before the Medes return.

Gabrielle wants to go into the family business of sheep ranching in New Zealand.

Gay Allan writes about her family and their life on Drovers Road, their sheep station in New Zealand, so they will remember how happy they were when they are grown up.

A collection of poems.

Young Bo the armadillo follows his new friend to the rodeo and has a wonderful time -- until Ma comes to bring him home.

Mossy and her portable garden are the star of Dr. Carolina’s museum, but she longs to return to her pond.

An early book for babies.

In this volume of the history of the Moffat family, Rufus, the youngest sets out to make the family fortune.

Eddie is visiting his grandmother’s farm when a space ship lands in the apple orchard.

Four traditional Christmas carols.

A collection of going-to-sleep songs and poems.

A collection of classic ghost stories from Irving and Alcott to Poe and Wilde.

Son of an American mother and an English father, Cedric is called to England by his somewhat irascible grandfather to be his heir.

A collection of Scarry-illustrated tales including the classic Pierre Bear.

An omnibus containing Tinker and Tanker, Tinker and Tanker and Their Space Ship and Tinker and Tanker Out West

Two adventures of the rabbit and hippo abbreviated from earlier volumes.

This compendium includes Busy, Busy World, and Cars and Trucks, and My Golden Go Go Library, and Hop Aboard! Here We Go!

An anthology of stories illustrated by many different artists, including Hilary Knight, and Garth Williams and Richard Scarry.

Nelly Custis was the granddaughter of Martha Washington by her first husband. She was adopted by George and Martha at the age of four and grew up at Mount Vernon.

Simpson and Sampson are twins. Simpson is always well behaved, Sampson, quite the other. Or is it the other way ’round? Another collaboration between the author and illustrator of “Ferdinand.”

The baby rhinosterwurst is missing! Kidnappers have lured him away with mushrooms, his favorite food.

This tall tale is based on the Davy Crockett almanacs published between 1834 and 1856.

Miss Peachtree’s school of dance gets mixed up with basketball practice. Throw in Jimmy’s boa and you have a real mess!

Chuck and Bob come to the aid of the U.S. Army with their mule, the Missouri Canary.

Freddy and his friends are kept busy around the farm in this volume of the Bean farm animals saga.

Beth joins her cat in a midnight adventure.

Jeremiah goes to look for his mother’s lost oranges.

Theodore kitten pays a visit to his grandmother, but grandfather really understands him.

Miss Bianca and Bernard, representatives of the Mouse Prisoners Aid Society, set out to rescue a little girl from an evil Duchess.

Nonsense verse on a nautical theme.

In what is surely one of the Master’s most complex plots we meet Percy Pilbeam and George Pyke who will reappear in later Wodehouse adventures.

A selection of the tales of the Brothers Grimm with thirty-two color illustrations by Tenggren. The text is in German.

Gideon Jones helps his father cast guns for the American Navy’s new sloop-of-war, then decides to join her crew to fight the British.

Reprints facsimiles of all of Jane Austen’s known letters.

Jimmy Crocker’s father has married into money and he gets too large an allowance for his own good. Fortunately Ann Chester arrives from America and takes him in hand. Read online at Hathitrust.

Skip Rollins decides to join 4-H and pursue his hobby of wildlife photography.

P.G. Wodehouse’s final, unfinished novel is set at Blandings Castle. Gally stars along with a good and deserving niece and her impecunious suitor, a unique Lord Emsworth sister who is nice and deserving of her suitor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Here are 66 illustrated tales, mostly true, about creatures of land, sea, and air. Read online at archive.org.

Steve and Sim look into the strange goings on at a neighboring farm and spend their first night in jail.

When Huck stops at the hot springs to retrieve his shirt, an ancient creature steals his banana right out of his hand.

Daniel Drew is heading west to seek his fortune when he gets caught up in the search for a gang of highway men.

This is the first fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece about Toad, Mole, Rat and Badger and the riverside. The British first edition has a different picture on the cover and a colored frontispiece not in the American edition. Read online at archive.org.

The events of Betsy Ray’s senior year (1909-1910) at Deep Valley High School in Deep Valley, Minnesota.

The familiar story of Jack and the Beanstalk in English hexameters by the son of the Poet Laureate. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Or Hathitrust.

Three cousins are the beneficiaries of the Jarndyce estate, but the will is contested and the legal costs eventually eat up the entire value of the assets. Read online at archive.org.

The puppet who wants to be a real boy.

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

A frog goes fishing and a fish goes frogging. This is a special publisher’s binding. Read online at archive.org. Or at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource.

Mr. Brock the badger kidnaps the children of Benjamin bunny and locks them up in Mr. Tod the fox’s house. Peter and Benjamin stage a daring rescue. This was originally published in a new larger format. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at wikisource.

A pictorial album illustrating the life of a Victorian family.

When Pepito the Spanish ambassador’s son moves in next door he disrupts the lives of the orphelines.

The watchman abandons his post and Shadowland loses its bearings.

A traditional rhyme that goes through all the farmer’s animals and their sounds. Read online at archive.org.

A book about Christmas in England by an American, best known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Read online at archive.org.

Sing a song for six pence
A pocket full of rye.

Read online at archive.org.

The legendary tale of the migration of the Huns and Magyars from the east to Hungary.

An historical novel about the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780. Barnaby’s raven Grip inspired Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.

Benjamin’s imagination fills his barn with everything from a rhinoceros to a pirate ship.

The three jovial huntsmen set out for a day's sport, but nary a beast do they see.

The old Greek tales for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

An introduction to the parts of speech. Read for free online at the University of Florida.

A traditional tale of cock robin, the sparrow and a bow and arrow. Shown above is the rear cover of the very rare Painted Toy Book.

A selfish princess is cured and marries her prince. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

A brother and sister are unhappy at boarding school when their parents must go abroad. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

This was the seventh of the almanacks. Some of the illustrations had previously appeared in Mavor’s The English Spelling-Book, published in 1885. Read online at NYPL.

This is the author’s third collection of nonsense, which includes one hundred new limericks. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The author comments on his fictional creation.

An omnibus containing Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, Hornblower and the Hotspur and Hornblower and the Crisis.

A collection of ballads, many taken from Child’s The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, his foster mother Wendy, and his great adversary James Hook.

In this edition Steven Kellogg has redone the illustrations. Barney receives three dandelions, each of which will grant a wish, but things soon start going wrong.

A Christmas story about a cow horse and a bad man.

A collection including Drovers Road, Cape Lost and The Golden Country.

A play for children loosely based on based on The Selfish Giant. The title Snickerty Nick & the Giant appears only on the cover. It is titled Snickerty Nick on the dust jacket and title page. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The Haverard cousins discover a music pavilion at the back of Kitsons’.

This is the first of Howard Pyle’s four books that encompass the Matter of Britain - that is the story of King Arthur. It tells of how Arthur became king and some of his adventures.

The big red hen disappears while the triplets are looking after their aunt’s chickens, but brings three new chicks when she comes back.

Twenty-three favorite rhymes in a larger format.

Little Pookie can’t decide on his Halloween costume.

Young Pip has a patron -- but who? This edition includes Dickens’ original ending where Pip and Estella are not reconciled.

This first omnibus volume contains:

• The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)
• The House That Jack Built (1878)
• The Babes in the Wood (1879)
• Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (1879)

Read online at archive.org.

Two children spend time in the country.

This is a facsimile of a nonsense alphabet originally written in 1849. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The fourteenth volume in a black-and-white reprint of the John Stanley Little Lulu comics contains issues 59-63.

This volume reprints the Thimble Theater daily strips from 1930 and 1931 as Popeye continues to dominate the storyline.

Still smarting from his defeat by Tom, Captain Najork comes back for more.

A girl, a cape, a grandmother, a wolf and a woodcutter.

David and Chuck take Theo Bass, Tyco Bass’s cousin, to the Mushroom Planet, unaware that a young astronomy professor has stowed away on board.

Nicholas Alexander is jealous when Nathan starts off for his first day in school.

Robinson writes a series of essays, illuminated by his many adventures. Read online at archive.org.

The story of Paul Revere’s ride is told by his horse, Scheherazade. This limited-edition binding is a darker blue. The illustration on the box is not in the book. Included is a set of eight plates, suitable for framing. Note that the mark on Scheherazade's right flank is a scar, not a defect in the printing plate.