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"A Apple Pie"
Introduces the letters A to Z while following the fortunes of an apple pie.
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"The Baby's Own Aesop"
Aesop's classic fables are condensed into rhyme.
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"Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Ballad of the Lost Hare tells the tale of a well-traveled hare.
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"Baseball ABC"
This guide to baseball literature features an illustrated paper cover and chromolithograph illustrations.
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"The Children's Object Book"
A picture book featuring everyday people, places and things.
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"The Circus Procession"
A lyrical parade of colorful circus characters.A lyrical parade of colorful circus characters.
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"Denslow's Humpty Dumpty"
Humpty Dumpty, with extraordinary illustrations by W.W. Denslow.
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"Denslow's Mother Goose"
The familiar rhymes and jingles of Mother Goose, edited and illustrated by W.W. Denslow.
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"Denslow's Three Bears"
A young girl befriends a family of bears.
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"Gobolinks, or Shadow-Pictures for Young and Old"
Poetry accompanies the shadow images in Gobolinks.
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"Mother Goose Finger Plays"
Finger puppets accompany selected and adapted Mother Goose tales.
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"My Very First Little German Book"
This book invites readers to learn German by featuring simple sentences with an English translation.
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"Le Corbeau = The Raven: Poëme / Par Edgar Poe"
The French translation of the classic poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
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"Our Flag," by Sarah E. Champion
The manuscript was originally presented to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mary Clap Wooster Chapter, in New Haven, Conn., June 14, 1895, by Mrs. Henry Champion.
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"The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he exacts a terrible revenge.
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"The Rocket Book," by Peter Newell
The upward progress of a rocket, lit in the basement by the janitor's son, causes some strange situations as it passes through 20 floors of apartments!
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"The Square Book of Animals "
A collection of poetry featuring familiar animals from farm and home.
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"The Story of the Three Little Pigs"
Three pigs meet a persistent wolf and guess what happens?
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"The Twelve Magic Changelings "
Each page leaf has two colored figures, front and back that are designed to be cut out and pasted together.
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"Vieilles Chansons pour les Petits Enfants:"
A collection of classic French songs for children.
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"A Visit From Saint Nicholas. Illustrated From Drawings By F.O.C. Darley"
A retelling of "The Night Before Christmas."
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"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz "
Dorothy makes new friends as she seeks to find a way home.
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"The Wonders of a Toy Shop"
Children passing a toy store discover its wonders.
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Teens [6]
"A Christmas Carol,"by Charles Dickens
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
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"The Arabian Nights"
"The Arabian Nights" is a magnificent collection of ancient tales told by the sultana Scheherazade, who relates them as entertainment for her jealous and murderous husband, hoping to keep him amused and herself alive.
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"The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe
The narrative poem tells the tale of a distraught lover who is visited by a mysterious raven.
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"The Secret Garden," by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A 10-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children"
Published in 1852, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" fueled the fire of the human rights debate and condemned the institution of slavery.
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"A Wonder-Book for Girls & Boys," by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne's "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" retells some of the most famous ancient Greek myths.
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Adults [3]
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"A Few Tales of the Rail"
“The the 800,000 quick-witted Americans, whose brain and brawn watch over our commerce, guard us safely on journeys of pleasure and sorrow . . . ” begins the book's dedication. Inside is a collection of humorous anecdotes on traveling the railroads.
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"The Bride Special"
Talk about irate in-laws and elopement in this dramatic one-act play. Make sure to note on page 12 the author's claim of copyright protection for his "new and novel" train rescue.
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"Babe Ruth as I Knew Him"
Author Waite Hoyt knew Babe Ruth, as a teammate with the Red Sox, as an opponent with the the New York Yankees and as a friend. His book documents Ruth's career with exclusive photographs, records and anecdotes.
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