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Copycats (1992)

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An omnilbus containing Parrot Cat, Elephant Cat, Polar Bear Cat, Crab Cat and Spider Cat. First published individually in Great Britain in 1984 by Walker Books Ltd., London

Author(s): Nicola Bayley
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

Magic Island (1964)

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Orphaned girl, Angel Thorne goes on a voyage by clipper ship from New York to Barbados with an exciting winter spent there not only restore herself to complete health but to also give her new friends and her own special place. Read online at Internet... View More

Author(s): Madye Chastain
Illustrator(s): Madye Chastain

Papa Married a Mormon (1955)

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A story of the author's father and brother, two Irishmen who settled in a silver-mining town in Mormon territory, and how they gradually gained the respect and friendship of the Mormons. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Fitzgerald
Illustrator(s): Photographs

My Father’s Dragon (1948)

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When an alley cat he befriends tells Elmer Elevator about the captive baby dragon on Wild Island, he determines to go to the island and set him free. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Ruth Gannett
Illustrator(s): Ruth Gannett

1949
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Farmer Boy (1933)

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The story of Almanzo Wilder growing up with his brother Royal and his two sisters on a big farm in New York state.

Author(s): Laura Wilder
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Beau Geste (1927)

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When a woman’s precious jewel goes missing, suspicion falls on her nephew. Beau leaves Britain to join the French Foreign Legion, followed by his brothers.

Author(s): P. C. Wren
Illustrator(s): Helen McKie

The Tyger Voyage (1976)

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Two tiger brothers set out on a voyage around the world and have many adventures before they come home again.

Author(s): Richard Adams
Illustrator(s): Nicola Bayley

The Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin (1980)

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When Mr. Bramble moves away, the new owner of his house is not sure he wants to let the children who planted Patterson pumpkin have him for a jack-o’-lantern. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

Ho-Ming, Girl of New China (1934)

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A twelve-year old girl finds a new way of growing up in the changing society of China in the 1920’s. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

1934

Great Kipling Stories Together with a Life of Rudyard Kipling (1936)

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A selection of Rudyard Kipling’s greatest short stories and poems.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Laughing Gas (1936)

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Reggie, Earl of Havershot switches places with Joey Cooley, golden-tressed child actor. Further mayhem, including kidnapping and pants-kicking ensues before the two come to themselves and all turns out well.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Herbert Roese

The Book of Dragons (1901)

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A collection of eight stories about dragons. Read online at Gutenberg.org.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar, Granville Fell

Yankee Doodle’s Cousins (1941)

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A compilation of stories about American folk heroes.

Author(s): Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s): Robert McCloskey

Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 1 (1926)

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This later printing of the first omnibus volume contains: The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878) The House That Jack Built (1878) The Babes in the Wood (1879) Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog (1879) Read online at archive.org.... View More

Asterix and Son (1983)

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When someone leaves a little boy in a basket outside Asterix and Obelix’s hut, it’s two Gauls and a baby! Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Albert Uderzo
Illustrator(s): Albert Uderzo

Trail of the Unicorn Volume 8 (2014)

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In the opening adventure of this full color volume of Carl Barks stories Donald and the nephews are off to Shangri-Lala to capture a unicorn. For a preview go to Fantagraphics.... View More

Author(s): Carl Barks
Illustrator(s): Carl Barks

The Pavilion (1969)

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The Haverard cousins discover a music pavilion at the back of Kitsons’.

Author(s): Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s): Prudence Seward

The Tailor of Gloucester (1902)

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The tailor is assisted in finishing an important commission by the mice who live in his house. This was Beatrix Potter’s favorite among her books.This is the original privately printed edition which is longer than the first commercial edition.... View More

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

The Taking of the Gry (1934)

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This is the third and last of the Santa Barbara novels which also include ODTAA and Sard Harker. This is the story of the cutting out of a ship, the Gry, from the harbor at Santa Barbara.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Rudolf Sauter

E. C. Segar’s Popeye Volume 1 (2006)

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This volume reprints the Thimble Theater dailies and color Sunday strips from 1928 to 1930. Popeye the Sailor appeared for the first time in the daily strip on January 17, 1929.

Author(s): E. C. Segar
Illustrator(s): E. C. Segar

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