My Little Pony
[Baker, J.]. My Pony : A Poem. Philadelphia: Published and sold by Wm. Charles, 1818.
The Lantern part 2 – History of John Carty
An installment of a melodrama by Frederic Gerrish, the 8-year-old editor of The Lantern of Portland, Maine, 1853.
The Lantern – part 1
Pages from issues of handmade juvenile publications, The Lantern, created by 8-year-old Frederic Gerrish of Portland, Maine, 1853-1859.
Tune in again later for the tale of John Carty . . .
Dueling Apple Pies
Two versions of the well-known ABC tale, The History of An Apple Pie, both from the early 19th century, but which came first?
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Wonder Movies
A curious production from the early 1920s intended to mimic motion in a book for young readers. Each “movie” is viewed by turning back successive panels on a scored page to reveal new scenes. While a bit awkward to manipulate, the idea works well enough to entertain and delight.
Wonder movies by Victor M Earle; Illustrated by Benjamin Seielstad
(Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1923).
The Book of Accidents
The Book of accidents: designed for young children. New Haven : S. Babcock, Sidney’s press, 1831.
And it only gets worse . . .
Read the entire book online: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/getSETS.asp?ITEM=2013671
Christmas in June
An illustrated writing sheet, printed in London,
filled out with an original Christmas poem
by a young girl named Rebecca Jane Mitchell in New York, 1807.
Captain Ginger!
A set of 5 (out of 6 published) titles in the Captain Ginger series,
written by Isabel Anderson and published in 1910 & 1911. (Boston : C.M. Clark).
These copies were the author’s own, specially bound in limp suede covers.
O, Temperance, O, Mores!
Young Gentlemen & Ladies Social & Temperance Society of Chester, CT.
A minute book of the organization, 1829-1841
complete with statement of purpose
And lists of members
However, if you fell off the wagon, your name was crossed out *and* you got the finger!
[Watch out for those Smith boys!]
Browlia and Frowlia
[Unknown juvenile artist. Scrapbook of scenes from the lands of Browlia and Frowlia, ca. 1899]
The official postage of Browlia
One of many curious Browlian beasts – the Lizard of Horlon
A limerick about cats
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
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