Children & Young Adult Reading

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…

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is an autobiographical‑style domestic fiction that follows the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and…

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

The collection opens with the familiar German folk narrative of a king’s missing golden apples, a mystery…

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…

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a sprawling historical fiction set in sixteenth‑century London, where the lives of a…

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…

The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall

Edward Stratemeyer

The Rover Boys on the Farm is the twelfth installment of Edward Stratemeyer’s long‑running juvenile series…

Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk

Various

This volume is a compendium of simple finger‑plays, rhymes, and short verses designed to entertain infants…

The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House

Hildegard G. Frey

The book is a juvenile mystery that doubles as a seasonal adventure, written for the Camp Fire Girls audience…

Die Sternbuben in der Großstadt: Eine heitere Geschichte

Josephine Siebe

Der Roman ist ein heiteres Jugendstück, das das Leben von Jungen in einer kleinen Stadt schildert.

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne

The book is a whimsical collection of juvenile tales that centers on the beloved animal characters of the…

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

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

Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey

Ingersoll Lockwood

This work is a Victorian‑era fantasy adventure that follows the diminutive “Little Baron” von Troomp and his…

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,…

Aesop's Fables; A New Translation

Aesop

This volume presents a new English translation of the ancient collection traditionally attributed to Aesop, a…

Practical Mechanics for Boys

James Slough Zerbe

Practical Mechanics for Boys is a hands‑on manual that sets out, in plain language, the fundamentals of…

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a short children’s story that opens with a simple domestic scene: a mother rabbit…

Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Lucien Biart

The work is a first‑person travel narrative that blends description of Mexican wilderness with the…

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…

Der Struwwelpeter oder lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder

Heinrich Hoffmann

Der Struwwelpeter ist ein illustrierter Kinder‑Bilderband aus dem Jahr 1844, in dem Heinrich Hoffmann, Arzt…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a juvenile fantasy that opens in the stark, gray Kansas…