Children & Young Adult Reading

Cat and Dog; Or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain

Julia Charlotte Maitland

The work is a juvenile tale that presents the world through the eyes of a well‑bred setter, who calls himself…

Child Stories from the Masters Being a Few Modest Interpretations of Some Phases of the Master Works Done in a Child Way

Maud Menefee

Maud Menefee’s Child Stories from the Masters is a modestly‑scaled collection that reshapes celebrated poems…

Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes; Or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation

Stella M. Francis

The book is a juvenile adventure that follows a group of Camp Fire Girls at their summer camp near the scenic…

Five Children and It

E. Nesbit

Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children

Mary Macgregor

This work is a retelling of Arthurian romance aimed at younger readers, collected under the title Stories of…

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a short, whimsical adventure aimed at young readers, featuring the familiar…

The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

Thornton W. Burgess

The story is a lively animal adventure aimed at young readers, featuring the familiar cast of Peter Rabbit,…

The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Jemima Puddle‑Duck is a short children’s story that weaves together the everyday world of a…

The Tale of Billy Woodchuck

Arthur Scott Bailey

Arthur Scott Bailey’s “The Tale of Billy Woodchuck” is a juvenile story that centers on the everyday life of…

The Tale of Daddy Longlegs Tuck-Me-In Tales

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Daddy Longlegs Tuck‑Me‑In Tales is a whimsical animal fable aimed at younger readers, introducing…

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is a lively school‑house story set in a bustling New England boarding school, opening with the…

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

Grimm’s Fairy Tales gathers the German folk narratives that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected from the…

The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck‑Me‑In Tales is a whimsical juvenile story that introduces a lively community…

Charley's Museum A Story for Young People

Unknown

The work is a juvenile natural‑history story that opens with the introduction of Charley Carter, a…

Heidi (Gift Edition)

Johanna Spyri

Heidi is a nineteenth‑century Swiss tale that follows a young orphan girl as she is taken up the Alpine path…

The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale

The Little Red Hen is a folk‑tale retelling aimed at young readers, featuring a diligent hen who discovers a…

The Boy Electrician

Alfred Powell Morgan

The Boy Electrician is a hands‑on guide to electrical engineering aimed at youthful readers, presented as a…

Le avventure di Pinocchio: Storia di un burattino

Carlo Collodi

Il racconto di Carlo Collodi si presenta come una favola giovanile incentrata sul burattino Pinocchio, ma il…

Hollowmell: or, A schoolgirl's mission

E. R. Burden

The work is a juvenile fiction piece that follows Minnie, a bright‑tempered schoolgirl, as she navigates the…

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

L. Leslie Brooke

The Story of the Three Little Pigs is a whimsical retelling of the familiar fairy‑tale, presented in a…

Carry's Rose; or, the Magic of Kindness. A Tale for the Young

Mrs. George Cupples

Carry’s Rose is a gentle, domestic tale that centers on the relationship between Caroline “Carry” Ashcroft…

The Orbis Pictus

Johann Amos Comenius

The Orbis Pictus is Johann Amos Comenius’s bilingual picture‑book designed for young learners of Latin and…

Sonny Boy

Sophie Swett

Sonny Boy is a juvenile‑fiction tale that follows the misadventures of ten‑year‑old Peter Plummer,…

The Cockatoo's Story

Mrs. George Cupples

The Cockato’s Story is a juvenile fiction tale that opens with a lively exchange among a white cockatoo, a…