We don't have
a record of the books in the first Fay School
Library, but we know what young people were reading
in 1908. Although these books were popular one
hundred years ago, the covers are from current
editions in today's Fay School Library.
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
The Boy's King Arthur
by Sidney Lanier
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
by Beatrix Potter
Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables
by L. M. Montgomery
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johan R. Wyss
Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
At the Back of the
North Wind
by George MacDonald
The Blue Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Aesop's Fables
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Heidi
by Johanna Spyri
East of the Sun and
West of the Moon
by Peter Asbjørnsen
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn by Mark Twain
Fairy Tales
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Child's Garden of
Verses
by Robert Lewis Stevenson
A Wonder Book for Girls
and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
Lives of the Noble
Grecians and Romans
Plutarch
The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow
by Washington Irving
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
A Visit from St. Nicholas
[the original title]
by Clement Moore
Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Peter Pan
by J. M. Barie
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
Hans Brinker, or The
Silver Skates
by Mary Mapes Dodge
