For the Birthday, My Part Was Quite Easy, But It Was Hard for the Monkey to Hold the Hoops Still (1877)

Emily Huntington Miller, Captain Fritz: His Friends and Adventures (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1877), 86.

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Poor Little Dog, You May Have Some Cake (1899)

Ellen M. Cyr, The Children’s Primer (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1899), 71.

Nelly Is a Little Shy Too, but That Will Soon Wear off When They Have Had a Game of Hunt the Slipper, Which Lizzie Is Going to Propose (1882)

Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, “The Two Birthdays,” The Children’s Pastime: Pictures and Stories for the Little Ones (London: Wells Gardner, Darton, and Company, 1882), 61.

“Know the Way! Of Course I Do!” Said Frank. “Dod Will Hoist the Sails and I Will Steer Straight to the North by a First Rate Pocket Compass That Papa Gave Me on My Birthday” (1885)

Mary E. Gellie, Fearless Frank or, The Captain’s Children (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh, 1885), 135.

We All Rode There on Donkeys, Which Was Great Fun, as You Might Imagine (1882)

Lisbeth Gooch Séguin, “The Two Birthdays,” The Children’s Pastime: Pictures and Stories for the Little Ones (London: Wells Gardner, Darton, and Company, 1882), 291.

“I Was Grieved.” Said the King, “When I Heard the Sound of the Horn in the Forest, for I Knew It Must Mean That Someone Was Lost or Affrighted, and I Speedily Sent My Fairies to Bring the Stray Waifs” (1893)

Eliza Orne White,  “Dorothy Dudley’s Birthday,” Illustration by Lydia Field Emmet, Harper’s Young People 14 (July 25, 1893): 677.

He Waited with Praiseworthy Patience in Order That Nothing Might Weaken the Impression He Intended to Produce (1878)

 “Hope’s Secret, and How It Was Found Out,” Sunshine (August 1878): 113.

An Illuminated Card, Framed and Glazed: She Suffereth Long, and Is Kind (1870)

Agnes Giberne, Charity’s Birthday Text (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1870), frontispiece.)

Anna Made the Birthday Cake and Took It Home to Papa (1893)

Ellen M. Cyr, The Children’s First Reader (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1893), 64.

You Will Find the Rest in Books, Any Books, All Books, and Some Day You Will Know How Difficult It Is to Find a Book with Nothing about a Dinner in It (1873)

Edwin John Ellis, Doda’s Birthday: The Faithful Record of All That Befel a Little Girl on a Long Eventful Day (London: Marcus Ward and Company, 1873), 158.

For Ballast, a Packet or Two of Seeds, a Half a Dozen Fish-Hooks and Lines, the Magnet, the Box of Lucifers, a Paper of Large Needles, a Ball of Thread, and a Roll of Wire (1869)

H.C. Adams, Falconhurst, or Birthday Tales (London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1869), frontispiece.

Alas for Poor Bertie! He Was to Meet with Disappointment on That Very Day (1869)

Sophia Tandy, Bertie’s Birthday Present, or Patience Rewarded (London: Religious Tract Society, 1869), frontispiece.

Go Back to Bed and You Will Be a Little Man Said Grandma (1897)

Loomis J. Campbell, The New Franklin Primer and First Reader (New York: American Book Company, 1897), 94.

Sybil’s Birthday Was at Hand; And Some Hearts Were Full of Expectation (1853)

Mr. Rutherford’s Children, vol. 1 (New York: George P. Putnam and Co., 1853), 80.

Fixed in the Clear Blue Ether, It There Takes Its Course round the Sun (1822)

Mary Martha Sherwood, Mrs. Sherwood’s Primer; or First Book for Children (Wellington: F. Houlston and Son, 1822), 39.   

Let Us Go Brother, to the Church-Yard, and Lie down on the Daisies among the Little Green Mounds (1842)

H.F. Wink, ed., The Children’s Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction: A Reward Book for Sabbath Schools, Day Schools, and Families V (1842): 33

She Did Not like to Have Mr Conscience Poking at Her Heart and Saying “Alice You Are a Naughty Girl” (1865)

Good Little Hearts, vol. 1 (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865), 94.

Little Friend, I’m Thinking of Another Child Who Is in Much Greater Danger (1884)

Salvation for Children , vol 2 (Glasgow: The Publishing Office, 1884), frontispiece.

When Lighthouses, on Rocks and Headlands, Showed Solitary and Watchful; And Benighted Sea-Birds Breasted on against Their Ponderous Lanterns and Fell Dead (1891)

Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-Time, Illustration by C. Stanfield, R.A. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891), 14.

You Do Not Know the Advantage to Being English Children (1842)

H.F. Wink, ed., The Children’s Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction: A Reward Book for Sabbath Schools, Day Schools, and Families V (1842): 293.

Whilst You Were Sleeping, Little Dear-My-Soul, Strange Things Have Happened (1898)

Eugene Field, “The Mouse and the Moonbeam,” The Children’s Fourth Reader, Ellen M. Cyr, ed. (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1898), 70.

Mrs. Lookina Left Him, Taking the Candle, and Locked the Door (1892)

Felix Volkhovsky, "A China Cup and Other Stories for Children,"  Illustrated by Malischiff (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), 91.

Things Hitherto Familiar and Friendly Now Became Full of Terror; and the Comfort of Her Life Was Gone (1888)

Amy Walton, “The Truslow Ghost,” A Pair of Clogs and Other Stories for Children (London: Blackie and Son, 1888), 124.

Eliza, Do You Know What Matter Is? (1842)

H.F. Wink, ed., The Children’s Magazine of General Knowledge and Instruction: A Reward Book for Sabbath Schools, Day Schools, and Families V (1842): 161.

Mentally She Transferred Him to Her Tin Curiosity Box (1853)

Mr. Rutherford’s Children 1 (New York: George P. Putnam and Co., 1853), 193.

Bartering the Glistening Coin for the Measured Candy, the Glowing Pippin, or the Tasteful Ground Nut (1848)

The Rural Repository: A Semi-Monthly Journal, Embellished with Engravings 24 (July 1, 1848): 1.