Created by Dr. Matthew Grenby, Hockliffe Research Fellow at De Montfort University, this site presents digitized versions of about 100 late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British books for children. Plans are underway to mount the entire Hockliffe catalog of over 1,000 early children's books on the Web as the entry point to the digitized versions. Once a title is selected, page images are presented in a frame with page numbers for navigation in an adjacent frame. A good selection of the many types of writing for children is already present at the site: fairy tales, fables, magazines, and moral and educational stories, such as several versions of Cinderella, Aesop's fables, and Jack and the Beanstalk. All the digitized texts are accompanied by explanatory essays, which may be the best way to start into the books, since the essays include links to pages within the texts themselves and related reference materials.
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