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Matilda (1988)
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and to restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Author(s):
Roald Dahl
Illustrator(s):
Quentin Blake
The Little Lame Prince (1874)
Author(s):
Dinah Mulock
Illustrator(s):
John Ralston
Jennifer and Josephine (1967)
An Actor’s Life For Me (1953)
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
Home from the Sea (1970)
A selection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson for young readers.
Author(s):
Robert Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Sleep, Baby, Sleep (1994)
A collection of going-to-sleep songs and poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Puss in Boots (1977)
The story of a miller’s son and his cat.
Author(s):
Christopher Logue
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Tinker and Tanker Out West (1961)
Ride ’em cowboy! as Tinker and Tanker travel to the old west.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Great Geppy (1940)
Author(s):
William du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William du Bois
The Runaway Flying Horse (1976)
Author(s):
Paul Bonzon
Illustrator(s):
William du Bois
The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1954)
The Miggs family of mice find a baby kitten in their nest and decide to adopt him.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
The master of Oz gives the real story behind twenty-two nursery rhymes.
Author(s):
Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Snow on Blueberry Mountain (1961)
Author(s):
Stephen Meader
Illustrator(s):
Don Sibley
The Shooting of Dan McGrew and the Cremation of Sam McGee (1969)
Designed by Susan Jeffers.
Author(s):
Robert Service
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers, Rosemary Wells
The Blue Ribbon Puppies (1958)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
The classic tale of Snow White.
Read online at archive.org.
Wood Magic: A Novel (1974)
Author(s):
Richard Jefferies
Illustrator(s):
None
Flying Colours including Ship of the Line (1939)
While on his way under guard from Spain to Paris to be tried by Napoleon, Hornblower makes his escape and joins the resistance. This special book club edition includes Ship of the Line as well.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume Fourteen Daily and Sunday Comics 1948-1950 (2017)
This is the fourteenth volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips and Sunday strips in color from 1948-1950.
Author(s):
Harold Gray
Illustrator(s):
Harold Gray
The Tales of Uncle Remus (1987)
This is the first volume of Uncle Remus stories, retold in a more readable dialect, from these collaborators.
Author(s):
Joel Harris, Julius Lester
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney