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Picture Book Genre
Books in the Picture Book genre:
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1947)
An illustrated version of the famous address.
Author(s):
Abraham Lincoln
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
McElligot’s Pool (1947)
You don’t know what you might catch when you go fishing in McElligot’s pool.
Read online at archive.org.
The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1947)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Seaweed Hat (1947)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Sleepy Little Lion (1947)
In-between naps, a lion cub meets a series of pets.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Ylla
Surprise for Davy (1947)
It’s Davy’s fourth birthday!
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
A Tale of Two Glimps (1947)
A promotional book for color television.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Three Tall Tales (1947)
Three tall tales about lazy animals and their owners.
Author(s):
Elena Eleska
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Winter Noisy Book (1947)
Muffin tunes his ears to the sounds of winter.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Rockbridge Campbell
Illustrator(s):
Charles G. Shaw
The Angels’ Alphabet (1948)
“Just tell me about God”, said Hilda van Stockum’s three-year-old daughter one day. The result was the Angel’s Alphabet. This charming book of poems offers a timeless and refreshing view of heavenly realities.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Baby Camel and His Naughty Father (1948)
The camel driver picked up the baby camel in his arms. “We’ll give you a ride,” he said. “You’re too little to walk...”
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Baby Hippopotamus’s Adventure (1948)
A mother hippopotamus and her baby stood on the high river bank, looking down at the water ...
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Big Farmer Big and Little Farmer Little (1948)
Two books in one about a Big farmer and a little farmer.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Billy’s Picture (1948)
All the animals want to help Billy bunny draw his picture.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Blueberries for Sal (1948)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Brave Father Gorilla (1948)
This is one of the Tiny Animal Stories boxed set and tells about the gorilla family.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Five Little Firemen (1948)
“The finest fire is the fire that’s out,” sing the five little firemen. Later editions have fewer pages.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
God’s Englishmen (1948)
A collection of drawings of Englishmen and women going about their daily business with some humorous commentary.
Author(s):
Percival Leigh
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Golden Book of Nursery Tales (1948)
A collection of favorite nursery tales.
Author(s):
Elsa Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Golden Christmas Manger (1948)
A creche with cut out figures and a book containing the Christmas story.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell