Children's Literature

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll’s tale is a fantasy adventure aimed at juvenile readers, introducing the curious girl Alice as…

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is a sea‑story that begins not on a distant island but in the modest…

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

The novel opens in the quiet, well‑kept village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, where the ever‑watchful…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a juvenile fantasy that sets out as a deliberately modernized “wonder tale,”…

Peter Pan: [Peter and Wendy]

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan is a fantasy adventure that begins with a whimsical meditation on childhood and the inevitability…

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Charles Dickens

This work is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,” a Victorian…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s tale is a short work of early‑American fiction that blends ghostly legend with a vivid…

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a collection of short stories set in the Indian jungle, populated by animals that speak and act…

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped thrusts the reader into a fever‑pitch episode of 18th‑century Scottish conflict, blending…

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott’s work is an autobiographical‑tinged domestic novel that follows the March sisters as they…

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking‑Glass is a fantasy adventure written for children, featuring the imaginative world of…

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

Curry, Charles Madison; Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

The book is a teacher‑oriented handbook that gathers a wide range of children’s literature, folk tales,…

The Railway Children

E. Nesbit

The Railway Children is a youthful adventure set against the backdrop of English railways and countryside…

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden opens with a stark portrait of Mary Lennox, an orphaned, sickly child sent from colonial…

Black Beauty: The autobiography of a horse

Anna Sewell

The work is presented as the memoir of a horse, narrated in the first person by a black stallion who recounts…

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden is a juvenile fiction that weaves together the lives of an orphaned girl, a young boy with…

Rinkitink in Oz

L. Frank Baum

Rinkitink in Oz is a youthful adventure that begins far from the familiar Emerald City, on the pearl‑rich…

The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales

The Arabian Nights: Their Best‑known Tales is a curated selection from the legendary “Thousand and One…

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

L. Frank Baum

The book is a whimsical continuation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, written expressly for young readers who…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The book is a whimsical fantasy set in an English countryside where animals speak and behave like genteel…

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune

E. Nesbit

The story opens with the Bastable children recounting a bustling summer holiday at the Moat House, where an…

Nights With Uncle Remus

Joel Chandler Harris

Nights With Uncle Remus is a collection of animal tales told in the voice of the legendary storyteller Uncle…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

The book is a fantasy adventure aimed at younger readers, introducing Alice as a curious girl who follows a…