List of Plates. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Maria Edgeworth (1767--1849):. From Early Lessons (1801). Ann Taylor (1782--1866), Jane Taylor (1783--1824) and Adelaide Oa Keeffe (?1776--1855):. Original Poems for Infant Minds (two volumes: 1804, 1805). a Morninga . a Never Play with Firea . a My Mothera . a The Pina . Rhymes from the Nursery (1806). a The Stara . a Poor Childrena . a The Little Husbandmana . William Roscoe (1753--1831):. From The Butterflya s Ball and the Grasshoppera s Feast (1807). Elizabeth Turner (1775?--1846):. From The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories, in Verse. Adapted to the Ideas of Children From Four to Eight Years Old (1807). a The Canarya . a Dangerous Sporta . Barbara (Wreaks) Hofland (1770--1844):. From The History of an Officera s Widow, and Her Young Family (1809). Mary Martha Sherwood (1775--1851):. From The History of the Fairchild Family or, the Childa s Manual: Being a Collection of Stories Calculated to Shew the Importance and Effects of a Religious Education (1818). Alicia Catherine Mant (?1788--1869):. from The Cottage in the Chalk Pit (1822). Clement Clarke Moore (1779--1863):. a A Visit from St. Nicholasa (1823). Mary [Botham] Howitt (1799--1888):. From The New Yeara s Gift, and Juvenile Souvenir (1829). a The Spider and the Flya . Sarah Josepha Hale (1788--1879):. From Poems for Our Children (1830). a Marya s Lamba . Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789--1867):. From Home (1835). Jacob Abbott (1803--79):. From A Little Scholar Learning to Talk (1835). From Rollo at Work (1837). James Kirke Paulding (1778--1860):. From A Christmas Gift from Fairylanda . From a Florella, or the Fairy of the Rainbowa (1838). Catherine Sinclair (1800--64):. From Holiday House (1839). Charlotte Barton (1797--1862):. From A Mothera s Offering to her Children: by a Lady, Long Resident in New South Wales (1841). Harriet Mozley (1803--1851):. From The Fairy Bower, or The History of a Month. A Tale (1841). Robert Browning (1812--89):. From Dramatic Lyrics (1842). a The Pied Piper of Hamelina . Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787--1860):. From New Nursery Songs for all Good Children (1843). a Three Little Kittensa . a William Churne of Staffordshirea (Revd. Francis Edward Paget (1806--1882)):. From The Hope of the Katzekopfs (1844). Richard Henry (Hengist) Horne (1802--1884):. From Memoirs of a London Doll (Written by Herself; Edited by Mrs Fairstar) (1846). Edward Lear (1812--88):. From A Book of Nonsense (by Derry Down Derry) (1846, 1861):. a The Jumbliesa from Nonsense Songs, Botany, and Alphabets (1871). Captain (Frederick) Marryat (1792--1848):. From The Children of the New Forest (1847). John Ruskin (1819--1900):. From The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers. A Legend of Stiria (1851). Catherine Parr (Strickland) Traill (1802--99):. From Canadian Crusoes, A Tale of Rice Lake Plains (1852). Mary Louisa Charlesworth (1819--80):. From Ministering Children (1854). a Oliver Optica (William Taylor Adams (1822--97)):. From The Boat Club, or the Bunkers of Rippleton (1855). William Makepeace Thackeray (1811--1863):. From The Rose and the Ring, Or The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo. A Fireside Pantomime for Great and Small Children (1855). Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813--1892):. From The Last of the Huggermuggers, a Giant Story (1855 (dated 1856)). Charlotte M(ary) Yonge (1823--1901). From The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations. A Family Chronicle (1856). A. L. O. E. (A Lady of England) (Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821--93)):. From The Rambles of a Rat (1857). Thomas Hughes (1822--96) :. from Tom Browna s Schooldays (1857). Frances Browne (1816--97):. From Grannya s Wonderful Chair and its Tales of Fairy Times (1857). R(obert) M(ichael) Ballantyne (1825--94):. From The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858). Frederick W(illiam) Farrar (1831--1903):. From Eric; or, Little by Little. A Tale of Roslyn School (1858). Samuel G(riswold) Goodrich (1793--1860):. From Peter Parleya s Tales of the Sea (1860). Charles Kingsley (1819--75):. From The Water--Babies. A Fairy Tale for a Land--Baby (1863). William (Still) Stitt Jenkins (?--?):. The Lost Children (1864). Mary (Elizabeth) Mapes Dodge (1831--1905):. From Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865). a Hesba Strettona (Sarah Smith (1832--1911)):. From Jessicaa s First Prayer (1867). Martha Farquharson Finley (1828--1909):. From Elsie Dinsmore (1867). John Townsend Trowbridge (1827--1916):. a Darius Green and his Flying Machinea (1867). Louisa May Alcott (1832--88):. From Little Women (1868). Charles Dickens (1812--1870):. From A Holiday Romance (1868). Horatio Alger Jr (1832--99):. From Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks (1868). Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836--1907):. The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). Jean Ingelow (1820--97):. From Mopsa the Fairy (1869). Mary Anne, Lady Barker (1831--1911):. From Boys -- (1874). Thomas March Clark (1812--1903):. From John Whopper the Newsboy (1870). a Lewis Carrolla (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832--98)):. From Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). a Susan Coolidgea (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1845--1905)):. From What Katy Did (1872). George MacDonald (1824--1905):. From The Princess and the Goblin (1871 (dated 1872)). Christina (Georgina) Rossetti (1830--94):. From Speaking Likenesses (1874). J(ohn) H(oward) Clark (1830--78):. Bertie and the Bullfrogs: An Australian Story for Big and Little Children (1874). a Mark Twaina (Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835--1910)):. From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Anna Sewell (1820--78):. From Black Beauty, His Grooms and Companions; The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Original Equine (1877). Mary Louisa (Stewart) Molesworth (1839--1921):. From The Cuckoo Clock (1877). Talbot Baines Reed (1852--93):. From The Boya s Own Paper, Volume 1, Number 1. a My First Football Matcha by an Old Boy (Saturday, January 18th, 1879). William M(akepeace) Thayer (1820--98):. From Log Cabin to White House: The Story of President Garfielda s Life (1880). Joel Chandler Harris (1848--1908):. From Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings. The Folk--Lore of the Old Plantation (1880 (dated 1881)). James Otis (Kaler) (1848--1912):. From Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1881). Margaret Sidney (Harriett M(ulford) (Stone) Lothrop (1844--1924)):. From Five Little Peppers and How they Grew (1881). (John) Richard Jefferies (1848--87):. From Wood Magic, a Fable (1881). G(eorge) A(lfred) Henty (1832--1902):. From Winning His Spurs. A Tale of the Crusades (1882). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850--1894):. From Treasure Island (1883). Juliana Horatia (Gatty) Ewing (1841--1885):. From Jackanapes (1883). Edward Eggleston (1837--1902):. From The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883). G(eorge) W(ilbur). Peck (1840--1916):. From Pecka s Bad Boy and His Pa (1883). Laura E(lizabeth) (Howe) Richards (1850--1943):. From The Joyous Story of Toto (1885). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850--94):. From A Childa s Garden of Verses (1885). a Whole Duty of Childrena . a Raina . a Where Go the Boatsa . a Systema . a Good and Bad Childrena . a The Lamplightera . a The Cowa . a Happy Thoughta . Lucretia P(eabody) Hale (1820--1900):. From The Peterkin Papers (1880). Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849--1924):. Edithaa s Burglar (1888). Frank R(ichard) Stockton (1834--1902):. From The Bee--man of Orn (1887). Palmer Cox (1840--1924):. From The Brownies: Their Book (1887). Oscar Wilde (1854--1900):. From The Happy Prince (1888). a The Selfish Gianta . Thomas Nelson Page (1853--1922):. From Two Little Confederates (1888). E(dward) B. Kennedy (?--?):. From Blacks and Bushrangers: Adventures in Queensland (1889). Eugene Field (1850--1895):. From A Little Book of Western Verse (1889). a Wynken, Blynken and Noda . Andrew Lang (1844--1912):. From Prince Prigio (1889). J(ames) Macdonald Oxley (1855--1907):. From Up Among the Ice Floes (1890). Thomas Hardy (1840--1928):. From Our Exploits at West Poley (1892--3). (Margaret) Marshall Saunders (1861--1947):. From Beautiful Joe, The Autobiography of a Dog (1894). Ethel S(ybil) Turner (1872--1958):. From Seven Little Australians (1894). (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936):. From The Jungle Book (1894). From a Kaaa s Huntinga . G(eorge) E(dward) Farrow (1862--?1920):. From The Wallypug of Why (1895). Bertha Upton (1849--1912) (Illustrated by Florence K. Upton (1873--1922)):. From The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg (1895). Annie Fellows Johnston (1863--1913):. From The Little Colonel (1896). S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett (1860--1914):. From The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion ...With Those of General Napoleon Smith. An Improving History for Old Boys, Young Boys, Little Boys, Cow Boys and Tom--Boys (1897). Albert Bigelow Paine (1861--1937):. From The Arkansas Bear, a Tale of Fanciful Adventure told in Song and Story (1898). J(ohn) Meade Falkner (1858--1932):. From Moonfleet (1898). Ernest (Evan) Thompson Seton (1860--1946):. From Wild Animals I Have Known (1898). From a The Springfield Foxa . Ethel Pedley (?1860--98):. From Dot and the Kangaroo (1899). (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1805--1936):. From Stalky and Co (1899). From a The Moral Reformersa . E(dith) Nesbit (1858--1924):. Fom The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899). a Lord Tottenhama . L(man)Frank Baum (1856--1919):. From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). La Envoi. (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936):. From Just--So Stories (1902). Select Bibliography. Index of Authors, Titles and First Lines.
