Texts Children's Literature Fall 1998 Knoepflmacher & Co.

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Hint:  Most of these texts are not  html-coded e-texts with fancy search engines included.   If you want to search for a specific word or phrase in a text while you're looking at it on your browser, however, it is possible to do so.  Simply go to the Edit pulldown menu and choose "Find in page," or type Ctrl+F (for Windows users) or Apple+F (for Mac users), and you can do a relatively low tech word search.
 

Click here for an online version of  Alice in Wonderland, complete with Tenniel's illustrations.

And this is a rather strange Multimedia version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Here's an account of the writing and publishing of Alice in Wonderland.

This is a good version of  Alice’s Adventures Underground, Carroll's original version of Alice in Wonderland, which includes Carroll's original drawings for the tale.

Here is a link to a site that presents  views of Alice in popular culture.

If you want to get a more scholarly take, here's a site with numerous essays about the political and cultural contexts and meanings of Alice and Through the Looking Glass.

Ever wonder what happened to Alice when she grew up?  Here's a picture of her.

Here's a page that gives a brief  history of the story of "Beauty and the Beast," and a brief synopsis of the story and major themes.
 
 

Charlotte's Web does not appear to be available on the web, probably for copyright reasons.  Here are some  comments on Charlotte's Web from the E.B. White Home Page, though.

You can also look at some of White's own drawings from Charlotte's Web.

"Cinderella" (Charles Perrault) and
"Aschenputtel" (The Brothers Grimm)

Here's a page that gives a brief history of the story of "Cinderella," and a brief synopsis of the story and some major themes.

Here is a link to  The Cinderella Project at the University of Southern Mississippi, a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale.

Here is the text of  "Feathertop."

In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe reviewd Mosses from an Old Manse, the volume to which "Feathertop"  would later be added.  Obviously, he doesn't mention "Feathertop, but here's the  review if you're interested.

Here's the text of the Just So Stories, with Kipling's illustrations (click on any story title in the table of contents to get to the text of the story.

One Kipling fan has put "How the Leopard Got His Spots" on her web page, with her own photographic illustrations.

The King of the Golden River
John Ruskin, 1851

Here is a rough, unillustrated text of The King of the Golden River.  There's a lot of copyright information at the beginning of this page; scroll about one third of the way down the scroll bar or so to get to the text of the story.

A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1888/1902

Here's an electronic version of  A Little Princess.  You have to scroll through some information about  this version of the text to get to the story, but this presents the whole text, not a chapter-by-chapter version.

And here's an electronic version of  Sara Crewe; or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was the original (1888) version of A Little Princess.

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868

Here is the text of  Little Women , but you have to scroll through a bit of prefatory material about the e-text and about Alcott to get to it.

Here's a 1903 review of Little Women and another Alcott novel, An Old-fashioned Girl. You can find other, more contemporary, responses to Little Women on the  Louisa In the News page of the  The Louisa May Alcott Web.

"A Modern Cinderella"
Louisa May Alcott, 1860

Here is the text of Alcott's story,  "A Modern Cinderella: or, the Little Old Shoe."

Here's the text of  The Prince and the Pauper.  It's all one document, not split up into chapters, so it's difficult to read but easier to search.

Here's the text of  "Rip Van Winkle."

Here is a "Rip Van Winkle"  project, which contains articles discussing the historical context of the story.  It was put together by Daniel Anderson and his students at the University of North Carolina.

Here's a page that gives a brief  history of the story of "Sleeping Beauty," and a brief synopsis of the story and major themes.

Sir Edward Burne-Jones painted the story of Briar Rose; you can see images of these paintings here.

Here's the text of  The Surprising Adventures of The Magical Monarch of Mo And His People.

Here's the text of  Through the Looking-Glass.  It includes illustrations, in color rather than black and white.

If you're interested in criticism, here's a site with numerous essays about the political and cultural contexts and meanings of Alice and Through the Looking Glass.

Here is a link to the text of Nathaniel Hawthorne's  A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys.
 
 

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