Books in Classics of children's literature, 1621-1932 series

Jessica's First Prayer and Froggy's Little Brother are exemplars of the 'street arab' story, a genre that flourished in Victorian Britain in response to child poverty and destitution. This critical edition features the original texts of the first editions, and examines the stories through a critical lens and in their historical context.

Under the tutelage of Reverend Barlow, two boys, one rich, one poor, are familiarized with the emerging bourgeois values of eighteenth-century England.

Living with her uncle's family on a southern plantation in the mid-nineteenth century, motherless eight-year-old Elsie finds it difficult to establish a relationship with her worldy father who seems indifferent to her religious principles.

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A reprint of three major works: a lengthy poem about temptation and redemption, a collection of nursery rhymes and verses, and a collection of moral fairy tales.

A New England preacher suffering from asthma moves his family to Colorado. A classic tale illustrating the positive thinking that won the West.

The adventures of the emotionally underprivileged child of New York society parents in a world where metaphors such as "she's a snake in the grass" literally come true.

A collection of Carroll's verse, including "Phantasmagoria" and the complete "Hunting of the Snark."

The cuckoo in the clock leads a lonely little girl into fantastic adventures and two cousins go to magical places by way of the tapestry room.

A Victorian tale in which Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby.

Twelve-year-old Katy always planned to do a great many wonderful things but in the end did something she never planned at all.

The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England.