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Poetry - Ballads Genre
Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:
The Torch: A Book of Poems for Boys (1924)
A poetry anthology.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Shippen Green
Howard Pyle
Et al
When We Were Very Young (1924)
A book of poems in which we first meet Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Flying Carpet (1925)
An anthology of leading authors and illustrators of the first part of the twentieth century.
The King’s Breakfast (1925)
Author(s):
H. Fraser-Simson
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Playtime & Company: A Book for Children (1925)
A book of verse for children.
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (1926)
This is a facsimile of a nonsense alphabet originally written in 1849. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 1 (1926)
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
William Cowper
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Book No. 4 (1926)
Author(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Balloon Moon (1927)
Ninety-nine poems for children.
Author(s):
Elise Pumpelly Cabot
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Fun and Fantasy (1927)
A collection of illustrations from Punch.Verses by E. V. Knox.
Author(s):
E. V. Knox
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Hither and Thither (1927)
Only the line drawing on the cover is by Shepard.
Author(s):
Barbara Euphan Todd
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Margaret W. Tarrant
Let’s Pretend (1927)
A book of poems for children.
Author(s):
Georgette Agnew
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets, etc. (1927)
Selections from Lear, mainly nonsense alphabets and botany.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Now We Are Six (1927)
More poems featuring Christopher Robin.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Piano Movers (1927)
When the sergeant takes a shine to a piano, the batterymen are recruited to move it.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
To and Again (1927)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Adolfo Best-Maugard
Alphabet People (1928)
An alphabet of rhymes about people in a child’s life such as ‘O is for Organ grinder.’
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1928)
A moving and tragic account of one man’s suffering.
Author(s):
Oscar Wilde
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Fairy Shoemaker and Other Fairy Poems (1928)
Five poems with illustrations.
Author(s):
William Allingham
Matthew Arnold
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Boris Artzybasheff
Menagerie (1928)
Poems, mainly about animals.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mary Britton Miller
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell