Cast-aways

The librarian at elementary school library where I work announced that a cart of free books was up for grabs. Of course I went in to check it out but before I made it to the cart, the librarian warned me that I probably wouldn't want anything as they were non fiction books. Hah. I continued my onward course to free goods. This is what I found:

It was a big stack of reference books all about children's literature authors and illustrators. What a gold mine, even if they are overly outdated (the authors/illustrators whose birth dates were listed in the 1910-15 range listed no death dates. That should give you an idea how old these books are).