# ForgemeshIO Children's Classics Shelf

> ForgemeshIO Children's Classics Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a ranked, curated list of public-domain children's and young-adult classic books with title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/childrens-classics
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemeshio-children-s-classics-shelf-43f63f78
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VLC7XgeCD58E05VQ2B-6T

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemeshio-children-s-classics-shelf-43f63f78 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 30 most historically popular public-domain children's and young-adult classics — I need the titles, authors, publication years, and the book IDs so I can fetch their full text?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a pre-curated, popularity-ranked catalog of public-domain children's or young-adult classics without needing to supply search terms. It is ideal for seeding reading lists, recommendation engines, or curricula where editorial curation and historical ranking matter. Use the full-text search sibling endpoint instead when you need keyword or author-specific lookup across the entire corpus.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — may return an error or be capped at 50
- No books returned if the corpus index is temporarily unavailable
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient or payment header is missing
- Malformed request body returns a 400-level error

## How this service works

Curated shelf of public-domain children's and young-adult classics, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain children's and young-adult classic books. Each entry includes the book's title, author name, publication year, a unique book_id, and drill-down route URLs for fetching full text via subsequent API calls. Results are ordered by historical popularity.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": "2008",
    "title": "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland",
    "author": "Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898",
    "book_id": 11,
    "subjects": [
     "Fantasy fiction"
    ],
    "download_count": 28040
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Children's Classics",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 1000,
   "indexed": 865
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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