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Books Owned by Flannery O'Connor as a Child

Below is a list of books owned by Flannery O'Connor and her family. The books are the property of O’Connor’s estate. According to Bill Dawers, president of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, some like The Fairy Babies even have inscriptions that O'Connor wrote as a child.

Children Should Know Music: Hayes Music Book 1, by Isabelle Groetzinger

The Seven Wonders of the World: The Most Impressive Things That Men Have Ever Done

Cinderella, by Majorie Hardy

Child Life: The Children's Own Magazine (several copies)

Dionne Quintuplets Picture Album: The Complete Story Of Their First Two Years

Fifty Favorite Songs: For Girls and Boys, by Mary Nancy Graham

Singing Around the Clock: A Children's Song Book, by Marcella Mendel

Singing Around The Seasons: A Children's Song Book, by Marcella Mendel

Walt Disney's Dumbo

Rand McNally World Atlas: Pictorial Edition

Rand McNally Atlas of the United States

Doctor Rabbit and Ki-Yi Coyote, by Thomas Clark Hinkle

A Dog of Flanders, by Lousia De La Rame

Seeing Stars, by W.B. White

The Three Wishes

One Hundred Best Poems: for boys and girls, by Majorie Barros

Wide-Awake Rhymes, by Elder Roosevelt Herring

Poems for the Very Young Child, by Dolores Knippel

Doctor Rabbit and Grumpy Bear, by Thomas Clark Hinkle

The Adventures of a Brownie: As Told to My Child, by Dinah Maria Mullock Craik

The Rosary Readers: Second Reader, by Sister Mary Henry O.S.D. Henry

Playtime Funny Book

The Fairy Babies, by Laura Rountree Smith

Little Miss Muffet Abroad, by Kate Weston