"Infancy" gospels tried to pass as historical fact for Jesus' childhood, adolescence, and early manhood, but they were obvious fantasy. The Gospel of Thomas, for example, has 5-year-old Jesus accused of breaking the Sabbath by making sparrows of clay beside a stream. When Joseph investigates, Jesus claps his hands, and the clay birds come to life and fly away. Attempts to fill in the "hidden years" of Christ's life had no foundation whatsoever in the traditions of the Gospels.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Old Testament and New Testament Apocrypha by R. K. Harrison, Page 89-93.)
Principal Apocrypha Gospels of all kinds, not exclusively infancy
- Arabic Gospel of the Infancy
- Armenian Gospel of the Infancy
- Bartholomew's Book of the Resurrection of Christ
- The Gospel of Bartholomew
- The Gospel of Basilides
- The Gospel of the Birth of Mary
- The Gospel of the Edionites
- The Gospel according to the Hebrews
- Protoevangelium of James
- The History of Joseph the Carpenter
- The Gospel of Marcion
- The Gospel of Matthias
- The Gospel of the Nazarenes
- The Gospel of Peter
- The Gospel of Philip
- The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
- The Gospel of Thomas
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Old Testament and New Testament Apocrypha by R. K. Harrison, Page 90-91.)