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Historical Children's Literature

About This Collection

This collection of Canadian, British, and American children’s books from the mid-1800s to 1960 includes volumes by Kate Greenaway, Randolph Caldecott, Lewis Carroll, A.A. Milne, Beatrix Potter, and L. Frank Baum.

Photo credit: UBC Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, PZ6 1885 .G72.

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Collection in the UBC Library Catalogue

Find all titles from the Beatrice Roslyn Robertson Collection in the UBC Library catalogue.


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Kate Greenaway

Randolph Caldecott

Lewis Carroll

A.A. Milne

Beatrix Potter

L. Frank Baum

J.M. Barrie

Henty, G.A.


Subject Headings

Animals--Fiction

Fairy tales

Children's poetry, English

Children's stories, English

Fantasy