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.

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.

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.

Birthday Blessings (1904)

Birthday Blessings. (Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske, & Co., 1904).

Birthday Week (1884)

Mary A. Lathbury, The Birthday Week. (New York: R. Worthington, 1884).