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library.forgemesh.io Children's Fiction Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io Children's Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 334 public-domain children's fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated reading list on Children's Fiction for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 334 public-domain books (e.g. The Railway Children, Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student, At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt). Full-text retrieval with drill-down routes for chapters, quotes, and citations. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain children's fiction books (defaulting to 20), each with metadata and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of individual books. The collection includes 334 titles such as The Railway Children and Breaking Away.
Example use cases
Classroom reading list builder
“Pull me a list of 50 public-domain children's fiction titles from the library shelf — I'm putting together a recommended reading list for a primary school class.”
Discovering a forgotten classic
“Can you browse the children's fiction shelf and show me the top 20 books? I think The Railway Children is in there and I want to find it along with similar titles.”
Children's book research project
“I'm researching early 20th century children's literature — give me up to 50 titles from the public-domain children's fiction collection so I can see what's available.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/children-s-fictionWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain children's fiction titles specifically, and want drill-down access to full texts. Prefer it over full-text search endpoints when you want to browse the shelf rather than search for specific passages or keywords. Ideal for building reading lists, catalogues, or discovery interfaces for children's classic literature without licensing concerns.
Side effects
- limit exceeds maximum of 50 — API may clamp or return an error
- payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) — no results returned
- limit set to 0 or negative — undefined behavior or empty list
- network timeout on the POST request
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "The Railway Children",
"author": "Nesbit, E. (Edith)",
"book_id": 1874,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 21772
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Children's Fiction",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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