Written for a daughter who was growing up too fast, Margery Williams Bianco’s hundred-year-old story, “The Velveteen Rabbit,” is a memorial to what we all lose in exchange for adulthood.

From nursery rhymes to religious lectures, this digital archive shows how kids read in a bygone age

Published in 1980, McLoughlin Bros. Digitized from original source held at University of Florida Libraries.

A Bunch of Cherries. L.T. Meade (1854-1914). Illustrated by E. Stuart Hardy. Ernest Nister, London. E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, [1898]. "The cherry-trees in the Court garden bore the most splendid fruit which could be obtained in any part of the county. They were in great demand, not only for the girls who lived in the old house and played in the garden, but for the neighbours all over the country."

A brief look (one part post) at children's books cover art from the Victorian era through to 1925. These are mostly hard-bound books that feature colour printing, embossing and gilding as well as applied lithographic colour printing: 1871 Better Than Rubies 1872 Bluff Crag or A Good Word Costs Nothing 1873 Rose and Kate or The Little Howards 1875 A Cruise in the Acorn 1877 Stories About Horses Compiled by T.B.S. 1877 The Peep Show With 300 Pictures 1878c Birds & their Nests by Mary Howitt…

215 p. 20 cm

Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl ~ illustrations by Donald Chaffin (later reillustrated by Quentin Blake) Knopf, 1970 So much excitement w...

188 p. : 25 cm

Explore Bollops' 1822 photos on Flickr!

Peter Rabbit Book by Beatrix Potter