Kids Century – Part II

Marguerite, a young French girl, is orphaned shortly after her family arrives in America, and she must exchange six years of work for food, clothing and shelter from another family.

The autobiographical “Little House” stories begin in the big woods of Wisconsin where Laura recounts the adventures, hardships and joys of pioneer life in the 1870’s.

Each stanza of this rhythmic story progresses through the alphabet, from A to Z, and tells the next step of a little bunny’s journey home.

In this well-known French children’s story, Babar the elephant loses his mother, makes his way to the city, and is crowned King of the Elephants.

The little duck Ping finds adventure on the Yangtze river when the houseboat where he lives with his huge family sails off, accidentally leaving him behind.

When Mary Poppins arrives, the Banks children are swept up in some fantastic and magical adventures with the marvelous nanny who’s not as prim and proper as she seems.

Caddie, an irrepressible tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin in the 1860’s, brings joy to her father and worry to her mother with her pranks and wild adventures.

Laura and the Ingalls family move to the frontier prairie of Kansas in Laura’s second volume of autobiographical stories about her pioneer family.

Billy’s birthday present is the best thing he could imagine, a pony named Blaze who becomes Billy’s best friend, and together they share many adventures.

When Lucinda’s parents spend 1890 abroad, the unexpected arrival of a pair of roller skates give her the freedom to explore New York City for one glorious unsupervised year.

Ferdinand, a peaceful Spanish bull who prefers sitting under a cork tree and smelling the flowers to fighting, becomes a hero when a bee sting takes him to the bullfights in Madrid.

A white stag leads young Atilla the Hun across the Carpathian mountains in this epic story of the migration of the Huns and Magyars from Asia to Europe.

Bilbo Baggins just wants to live quietly in his hobbit hole, but is swept up in a fantastic journey with 13 fortune-seeking dwarfs and the powerful wizard, Gandalf the Grey.

Dr. Seuss’ first children’s book describes all of the wild and unbelievable things Marco sees on Mulberry Street on his way home from school.

Mr. Popper paints houses by day and dreams of the arctic by night, so imagine his surprise when an unexpected delivery contains a live penguin who turns his life upside-down.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book describes a boy’s love for his tame deer, Flag, and their encounters with the dangerous wildlife of rural Florida during Flag’s first year of life.

Merlin changes Wart, the boy who will one day become King Arthur, into various wild animals so that he will learn to recognize human nature, a necessary skill for a good king.

Madeline, the smallest and most mischievous of “twelve little girls in two straight lines”, gives Miss Clavel quite a fright when she goes to the hospital with a case of appendicitis.

Mike Mulligan and his faithful steam shovel Mary Anne find themselves in a race against time and technological progress as they try to dig the cellar of the Popperville town hall.

Benjamin Franklin was responsible for many amazing discoveries and inventions, but in this story readers learn who was really responsible for many of them — Amos the mouse.

When Lassie is sold because Joe’s family has no money to feed her, the loyal collie travels over 1000 miles, from Scotland to Yorkshire, over punishing terrain, to come home to Joe.

“Caps, caps for sale,” calls the peddler, but he’s in for a big surprise when he runs into a tree full of monkeys who steal his caps and then mimic his every action.

In Deep Valley, Minnesota, at the turn-of-the-century, Betsy and Tacy are two five-year-old girls who are so close that they are often thought of as one little girl — Betsy-Tacy.

Alec and the wild Black Stallion are the only survivors of a shipwreck that leaves the two stranded on a desert island, and Alec is determined both to survive and to tame the stallion.

After the man in the yellow hat brings a very curious monkey named George home from the jungle, George manages to get into trouble when his curiosity leads him astray.

Mother and Father Mallard set out across town with their ducklings in tow as they search for a better place in Boston to raise their family.

When Edward’s father is called away, Edward is left with an antique matchlock gun to protect Mama, little Trudy and their home in this colonial story set in New York in 1756.

Four orphaned but resourceful children make a home for themselves in an abandoned red boxcar in the first of more than 70 Boxcar Children mysteries.

In this gentle story with softly luminous illustrations, the baby bunny Marshmallow is so convinced that Oliver the cat is his mother that the two become loving companions.

In this classic bedtime story, a little bunny decides to run away and is followed by his loving mother in an imaginary game of chase.

A beautiful little house on a hill is slowly surrounded by the encroaching city, all the while growing older and more neglected until a loving family rescues her.

Each chapter in this book tells a different episode in the life of Homer Price, the most famous of which involves an out of control donut machine.

Three children discover that Miss Price is a witch, so to ensure their secrecy she gives them a magic bedknob that can take them to anywhere they want to go.