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Pick a bar to narrow the shelf. Every panel below follows the same filter — the two charts, the plot, and the list of books — and each bar says how many books choosing it would leave you with.

3815 books on the shelf
3815 filed under a genre
16 genres
6 with no recorded year

For the same counts drawn as figures, see Statistics.

6 of them record no publication year at all — show those books.

Showing 6 of 3815 books, filtered by Children's 1950–74 Number of pages 260 and up Clear all

Titles by genre

Each bar counts the books of that genre which survive the year filter, so it says what picking that genre would leave you with. The 0 books filed under no genre at all are in no bar here.

Titles by year published

The whole timeline, back to the catalogue's oldest book. The bars widen as they go back, because equal-width bars across four thousand years would press everything before 1900 into a single pixel — where the statistics page leaves those books out of its chart and says so in the caption, the explorer has to be able to reach them, so its bars change width instead of stopping. Each bar counts the books of that era which survive the genre filter.

Two measures at a time

The books above, as dots. 55 of the 76 carry both measures and can be plotted; a book missing a measure has no place on that axis, so it is left off rather than drawn at zero. Each axis covers the middle 98% of what is shown, with 1 books outside the frame.

The dots outside your ranges are still drawn, faded, so that you can see what you are narrowing from; the bars above and the list below obey the ranges. 11 of the 76 books in view carry no measure on a ranged axis, so no range can place them — take the ranges off to see them.

Point at a dot to see which book it is, and where it sits on each axis. Click one to open that book's own page of neighbours — the same book, in the middle of a map, with the books closest to it around it.

Number of pages
Word count
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50 100 150 200 250 300 20,000 40,000 60,000 Abraham Lincoln · 1957 · pages 64 · words 6,155 All-of-a-Kind Family · 1951 · pages 188 · words 32,006 America's Paul Revere · 1974 · pages 46 · words 11,719 Amos Fortune, Free Man · 1950 · pages 181 · words 32,679 And Now Miguel · 1954 · pages 256 · words 56,043 A Raisin in the Sun · 1959 · pages 162 · words 31,391 Ballet Shoes · 1954 · pages 266 · words 59,757 Bread and Jam for Frances · 1964 · pages 32 · words 1,720 Brighty of the Grand Canyon · 1963 · pages 224 · words 42,328 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? · 1967 · pages 24 · words 196 Chanticleer and the Fox · 1958 · pages 44 · words 1,390 Charlotte's Web · 1952 · pages 192 · words 31,938 Cheaper by the Dozen · 1963 · pages 292 · words 61,162 Encyclopedia Brown · 1963 · pages 90 · words 10,392 Fourth of July Story · 1956 · pages 32 · words 2,639 Frederick · 1967 · pages 27 · words 517 George and Martha · 1972 · pages 48 · words 626 Ginger Pye · 1952 · pages 306 · words 56,876 Go, Dog. Go! · 1961 · pages 64 · words 515 Green Eggs and Ham · 1960 · pages 64 · words 769 Harold and the Purple Crayon · 1955 · pages 64 · words 657 Harry the Dirty Dog · 1956 · pages 28 · words 463 Little Bear · 1957 · pages 63 · words 1,630 Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel · 1967 · pages 56 · words 1,688 Minn of the Mississippi · 1951 · pages 96 · words 22,235 Once a Mouse... · 1961 · pages 32 · words 327 Pierre: A CAUTIONARY TALE · 1962 · pages 48 · words 493 Pippi Longstocking · 1950 · pages 160 · words 26,522 Put Me in the Zoo · 1960 · pages 62 · words 513 Ramona the Pest · 1968 · pages 192 · words 27,145 Sam the Minuteman · 1969 · pages 62 · words 1,078 Secret of the Andes · 1953 · pages 128 · words 32,796 Swimmy · 1963 · pages 32 · words 298 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble · 1969 · pages 32 · words 1,425 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing · 1972 · pages 144 · words 23,741 The Borrowers · 1953 · pages 180 · words 34,792 The Cat in the Hat · 1957 · pages 61 · words 1,621 The Chocolate Touch · 1952 · pages 128 · words 11,444 The Giving Tree · 1964 · pages 64 · words 621 The Great Brain · 1967 · pages 192 · words 47,205 The Happy Hollisters · 1953 · pages 184 · words 31,407 The Littles · 1967 · pages 80 · words 7,230 The Moffats · 1959 · pages 304 · words 41,732 The Rescuers · 1959 · pages 160 · words 25,360 The Rightful Owner · 1960 · pages 82 · words 13,418 The Snowy Day · 1962 · pages 40 · words 316 The Story of Holly and Ivy (a Christmas book) · 1958 · pages 32 · words 7,845 The Story of Thomas Alva Edison · 1964 · pages 64 · words 4,691 The Sword in the Tree · 1956 · pages 112 · words 11,440 The Toothpaste Millionaire · 1972 · pages 89 · words 17,204 The Trumpet of the Swan · 1970 · pages 252 · words 42,203 The Very Hungry Caterpillar · 1969 · pages 26 · words 221 Time of Wonder · 1957 · pages 64 · words 2,102 Where the Wild Things Are · 1963 · pages 38 · words 336 Number of pages Word count

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