Books the McCullough Children Read

There were many books in the McCullough library. John especially liked books about history and politics. The children read books that were popular at the time, like A Child's Garden of Verses, and many of them are still read today. You might have already read some books that were written in Victorian times, such as Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, Little Women, or Heidi. Sometimes Victorian children's books had beautiful cut-out shapes. Sometimes they were written as a rebus, with pictures in place of some words so that you had to figure out what was said. There were also magazines written especially for children, such as The Saint Nicholas Magazine, and The Youth's Companion, which was published weekly from 1827 until 1929.

List of Books Popular in Victorian Times

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by
Lewis Carroll

Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by
Mary Mapes Dodge

Tom Brown's School Days, Tom Brown at Oxford by
Thomas Hughes

A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls by
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Grimm's Fairy Tales by
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Stories of Hans Christian Andersen

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain

A Book of Nonsense by
Edward Lear

The Adventures of a Brownie, The Little Lame Prince by
Dinah Maria Mulock

Elsie Dinsmore by
Martha Farquharson Finley

The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, The Five Little Peppers Midway, The Five Little Peppers Grown-up, Phronsie Pepper by
Margaret Sidney

Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Little Men, Eight Cousins by
Louisa May Alcott

Treasure Island by
Robert Louis Stevenson