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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 1 of 3815 books, filtered by Children's 1925–49 Word count 60,000 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. 33 of the 40 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.

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. 4 of the 40 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
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Word count
100 200 300 20,000 40,000 60,000 Betsy-Tacy · 1940 · pages 113 · words 18,380 Boxcar Children · 1942 · pages 160 · words 17,087 Caps for Sale · 1938 · pages 48 · words 672 Curious George · 1941 · pages 48 · words 918 Goodnight Moon · 1947 · pages 32 · words 131 Hitty, Her First Hundred Years · 1930 · pages 256 · words 63,431 King of the Wind · 1948 · pages 176 · words 33,035 Lentil · 1940 · pages 64 · words 849 Li Lun, Lad of Courage · 1947 · pages 96 · words 16,904 Little House on the Prairie · 1935 · pages 335 · words 52,038 Little Pear · 1931 · pages 128 · words 10,792 Madeline · 1939 · pages 44 · words 418 Make Way for Ducklings · 1941 · pages 64 · words 1,149 Millions of Cats · 1928 · pages 32 · words 965 Miss Hickory · 1947 · pages 128 · words 24,002 Mr. Popper’s Penguins · 1938 · pages 139 · words 16,160 My Father’s Dragon · 1948 · pages 96 · words 7,682 Rabbit Hill · 1944 · pages 127 · words 20,482 Roller Skates · 1937 · pages 186 · words 46,235 Story About Ping · 1933 · pages 32 · words 1,139 Strawberry Girl · 1946 · pages 208 · words 37,341 Stuart Little · 1945 · pages 131 · words 18,841 The American Twins of the Revolution · 1926 · pages 240 · words 27,137 The Carrot Seed · 1945 · pages 32 · words 101 The Cat Who Went to Heaven · 1931 · pages 72 · words 11,140 The Little House · 1942 · pages 40 · words 1,388 The Little Prince · 1943 · pages 96 · words 16,534 The Runaway Bunny · 1942 · pages 48 · words 404 The Story of Babar · 1933 · pages 48 · words 1,192 The Story of Ferdinand · 1936 · pages 72 · words 737 The Twenty-One Balloons · 1947 · pages 180 · words 33,649 Thimble Summer · 1938 · pages 144 · words 34,242 Winnie-the-Pooh · 1926 · pages 161 · words 22,671 Number of pages Word count

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