Anselmo, Sarah, et. al. R is for Rainbow: Developing Young Children’s Thinking Skills Through the Alphabet. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986. (A hands-on text for teaching letter sounds and symbols)
Arnold, Arnold. Pictures and Stories from Forgotten Children’s Books. New York: Dover Publications, 1969.
Cheever, Ezekiel. Cheever’s Audience. —-: —-, ?. (First New Haven schoolmaster)
Cheever, Ezekiel. Latin Accidence. —-: —,1838.
Dod, —-. Old Mr. Dod’s Sayings: composed in Verse. for the better Help of Memory: and the Delightfulness of Children reading them. and learning them. whereby they may be the better ingrafted in their memories and Understanding. —-: —-, ?. (available only in microfiche at MUDD library)
Earle, Alice Morse. Child Life in Colonial Days. Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, (1899) 1975 and 1984. (Found in The New Haven Colony Historical Society Library)
Farr, Roger C. and Dorothy S. Strickland. The Treasure Tree: Volumes 1 and 2. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1993 (current Language Arts text for Kindergarten level in New Haven Public Schools)
Hylles, Thomas. The Arte of Vulgar Arithmiteke. —-: —-, 1620.
Janeway James A Token for Children. being and Exact Account of the Conversion. Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of Several Young Children. by James Janeway. To which is added A Token for the Children of New England or Some Examples of Children in whom the Fear of God was remarkably Budding before they died: in several Parts of New England. Preserved and Published for the Encouragement of Piety in other Children. —-: —-, ?. (Popular religious text for children found in MUDD library)
Johnson, Clifton. Old-Time Schools and School-Books. New York: Dover Publishing, (1904) 1963.
Larkin, Jack Children Everywhere: Dimensions of Childhood in Early l9th- Century New England. Strubridge, MA: Old Strubridge Village, 1987.
Locke, John. Thoughts Concerning Education. —-: —-, 1690.
Mather, Cotton. Good Lessons for Children! in Verse. —-: —-, ?.
Speare, Elizabeth George. Child Life in New England 1790-1840. Strubridge, MA: Old Strubridge Village, 1973.
Steiner, Bernard C. The History of Education in Connecticut. —-: —, 1893.
Tripp, Tommy. A New Lottery Book. on A Plan Entirely New: Designed to allure Little Ones into a Knowledge of their letters. &c. by way of Diversion. —-: Gaw and Elder, 1819. (K was a key, that lock’d up bad boys)
Tuer, Andrew W. History of the Hornbook. —-: —- ?.
Whitney Library, New Haven Colony Historical Society, Dana Scrapbook Collection, Public Schools.
Whitney Library, New Haven Colony Historical Society, MSS #17, Box II, Folder FF, West Haven-South School District, 1841-1861.
Whitney Library, New Haven Colony Historical Society, MSS #17, Box II, Folder GG, Woodbridge School District, 1836-1837.
—-, —-. Fun & Games of Long Ago. Scotia, New York: Americana Review, 1973.
—-,—-. Grammar of the English Tongue. —-: —-, ?. (Rhyming grammar rules)
—-,—-. The Young Lady’s Accidence. or a Short and Easy Introduction to English Grammar. design’d principally for the use of Young Learners. more especially for those of the Fair Sex. though proper for Either. —-, ?.