Children's Literature Books
The USF Libraries growing Children’s and Young Adult Literature Collections currently include over 25,000 titles of American fiction for adolescent and young readers, dating from 1870 to the present. They provide researchers, teachers, students, and readers the opportunity to study the evolving culture and sociology of American adolescence through the literature written for them.
This digital collection of children’s literature from USF’s Special Collections is just the tip of the iceberg, featuring boys and girls series books from before 1923. This is a growing collection, and more titles will be added over time.
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Jerry Muskrat at Home
Thornton W. Burgess and Harrison Cady
Concerns the problems faced by Jerry Muskrat and other creatures of the Green Forest
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Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard
The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyoure has a birthday.
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In the Heart of the Everglades
Kirk Munroe, H. Burgess, and P. L. Martin
Being the story of the adventures of Allan Lawton in the early homesteading days of Florida and when the Seminole Indians had no legal rights that the white man was bound to respect
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The Riddle Club at Home
Alice Dale Hardy
How the members of the club fixed up a clubroom in the Larue barn, and how they, later on, helped solve a most mysterious happening, and how one of the members won a valuable prize.
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The Riddle Club in Camp
Alice Dale Hardy
The club members went into camp on the edge of a beautiful lake. Here they had rousing good times swimming, boating and around the campfire. They fell in with a mysterious old man known as The Hermit of Triangle Island. Nobody knew his real name or where he came from until the propounding of a riddle solved these perplexing questions.
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The Riddle Club through the Holidays
Alice Dale Hardy
This volume takes in a great number of winter sports, including skating and sledding and the building of a huge snowman. It also gives the particulars of how the club treasurer lost the dues entrusted to his care and what the melting of the great snowman revealed.
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The Girl Scouts' Motor Trip
Edith Lavell
The Girl Scouts take a road trip to visit Alice's Aunt Emeline
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When We Were Young
A. A. Milne
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
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Cathalina at Greycliff
Harriet Pyne Grove
The girls at Greycliff get together and discover a new member, who undergoes mysteries and adventures with them.
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The Dark Frigate
Charles Boardman Hawes
A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.
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Emily of New Moon
Lucy Maud Montgomery
When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and loney, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.
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Rootabaga Pigeons
Carl Sandburg, Maud Petersham, and Miska Petersham
Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man and many others
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The Cowardly Lion of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson and John R. Neill
The cowardly lion's story about the people who were hunting him.
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Boy Partners, February 1922
Edward Edson Lee
Contents: "The Wild and Woolly West" by George W. Cook; "The Storm Drain" by Lester A. Hansler; "When the Forest Flamed" by Robert Earle Wyman; "Troubles in Doubles" by Edward Edson Lee; "The Business of Writing" by Edward Edson Lee; "An Unusual Weapon" by Exton Talley; "Christening the Bike" by Kenneth Steele; "Johnny at the Picnic" by Walter Reiche; "Dude and Silas" by George W. Cook; "Her Nationalisty" by Herman Gottlieb; and "The Man Behind the Gun" by Darrell V. Martin.
