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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A Round Trip to the Year 2000, or, A Flight Through Time
William Wallace Cook
The year is 1903 when a philosopher is being pursued by a detective for a crime he did not commit. He uses a time machine to escape to the year 2000. However society has changed in ways he could never have imagined.
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Jolly Good Times, or, Child-life on a Farm
Mary P. Wells Smith
Presents a fictionalized account of the early years of Mary P. Wells Smith, who grew up on a farm in the Greenfield meadows from 1848 to 1853. In these stories, Millie Kendall and her brothers Teddy and Ralph have adventures.
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In the Hands of the Redcoats
Everett T. Tomlinson
This story is based on incidents from life on board the HMS Jersey during the American Revolution.
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Bright Days for Boys and Girls, Volume 1, No. 4, July 1896
Bright Days Publishing Company
Contents: "Camp and Diamond or, The Outing of the Young Victors" by Ralph Bonehill; "Bound to be an Electrician or, A Clear Head and a Stout Heart" by Arthur M. Winfield; "Leo the Circus Boy or, Life under the Great White Canvas" by T. Barnum; "The Human Owls of La Vendee: An Historical Tale" by D.T. Henty; "Passing the Sentry" by Ralph Harrington; "The Island of Caves or, The Remarkable Adventures of the Bixby Twins" by Edward Stratemeyer; "A Calendar on Your Fingers" by G.C. Snowden; "The Young Florists of Spring Hill or, The New Heliotrope" by Albert Lee Ford; "The Fowler Boys' Fourth and What Came of It" by Edward Ward; "A Mustard Mistake" by Frank Hampton
