The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida 's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. The Library also has manuscript collections, original artwork, and assorted ephemera such as board games, puzzles, and toys. The Baldwin Library is known for comparative editions of books, with special emphasis on Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s Progress, Aesop’s Fables, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Library also has the largest collection of Early American Juvenile Imprints of any academic institution in the United States.

Other strengths and distinctions of the Baldwin Library include: marginalia and inscriptions, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards Collection, Little Golden Books, religious tracts, and illustrated editions from the Golden Age of Children's Literature. Scholars worldwide use the Baldwin Library for research in fables, fairy tales, alphabet books, morality tales and religious tracts, conduct of life, gender roles, comparison of editions, adventure stories, and boys’/girls’ series books.

For more information on the collection, please contact Suzan Alteri, Curator, at salteri@ufl.edu.

Funding for digitization of over 6,000 volumes was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature is a contributor to the International Children's Digital Library  and a founding partner of The Center for Children's Literature and Culture at the University of Florida.

Subcollections

	Afterlife of Alice and Her Adventures in Wonderland	Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and the Robinsonades	Grimm's Fairy Tales
	St. Nicholas Magazine