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Picture Book Genre
Books in the Picture Book genre:
The Little Train (1940)
Today Mr. Small is an engineer on the freight from Tiny Town to the big city.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Mother Makes Christmas (1940)
Sally and her mother make a Vermont Christmas out of nothing at all.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Pat the Bunny (1940)
Touch and feel book.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Smoky and Pinocchio (1940)
The adventures of Pinocchio the puppet and Smoky the cat.
Author(s):
Helene Carter
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Topsy Turvy Circus (1940)
When the circus gets in a jam, the giraffe comes through.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Adventures of Dudley and Gilderoy (1941)
A nonsense story in which a parrot and a cat travel to London and back home again.
Author(s):
Algernon Blackwood
Marion B. Cothren
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
Animals for Me (1941)
A simple picture book for very young children about the animals around us.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
April’s Kittens (1941)
April’s cat Sheba has three kittens. But her father insists that theirs is strickly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones?
Author(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry
Illustrator(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry
Baby Animals (1941)
Children love to play with baby animals.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Mary Cameron
Calico the Wonder Horse: or, The Saga of Stewy Slinker (1941)
A Christmas story about a cow horse and a bad man.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Collier’s Collects Its Wits (1941)
A collection of cartoons that appeared in Collier’s Weekly magazine in 1940-41.
Author(s):
None
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Et al
Curious George (1941)
How Do You Get There? (1941)
Each picture ask the question - how do you get from here to there? Lift the flap to find out if you were right.
In the Beginning (1941)
Chapter one of the Book of Genesis, from the King James Version.
Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Little Town (1941)
A pictorial presentation of life in small town America.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Make Way for Ducklings (1941)
Mrs. Mallard proudly parades her ducklings to the Boston Public Garden.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Nothing At All (1941)
When his two visible brothers are chosen as pets by a two children, their invisible brother realizes he must get to work and make himself visible so he too can become a pet.
The Polite Penguin (1941)
When a raccoon tries to teach a penguin manners, anything can happen.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
H. A. Rey
The Poodle and the Sheep (1941)
Poodle won’t leave the sheep alone so he ends up in dog jail.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
The Seashore Noisy Book (1941)
Muffin explores the sounds of the sea and ends up in the drink.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard