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Poetry - Ballads Genre
Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1946)
A collection of poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Poems of François Villon (1946)
A translation of the works of the rogue-poet of fifteenth century France.
Author(s):
François Villon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
When it Rained Cats and Dogs (1946)
On a magical day, cats and kittens, dogs and puppies rain down on waiting children.
Author(s):
Nancy Byrd Turner
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Christopher Robin’s Old Sailor and Other Selections from A.A. Milne (1947)
Stories and poems from the Winnie-the-Pooh corpus.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1947)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Barnett Freedman
Edward Lear
Desert Animals (1947)
Descriptions of desert dwelling animals in verse.
Author(s):
Rita Kissin
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Freddy the Magician (1947)
Freddy, that multi-talented pig, takes up stage magic and prestidigitation.
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Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Hey Nonny Yes (1947)
Selections from the Bard, illustrated by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
I Saw Esau (1947)
A collection of schoolyard rhymes. The illustrated dust jacket is from the second issue.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Anne Ainscough
Read-to-Me Storybook (1947)
An anthology of stories and poems for young children.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Kate Greenaway
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Miriam Clark Potter
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Author(s):
Grace Castagnetta
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
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
Freddy the Politician (1948)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Golden Sleepy Book (1948)
This is a collection of stories, poems and songs about sleep.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Night Before Christmas (1948)
First published in 1946, two songs were added for this third edition of the Christmas classic.
Author(s):
Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Now It’s Fall (1948)
A poem and pictures about the joys of fall.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Wild Wild West (1948)
A narrative poem featuring characters from the old west.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Freddy Goes to Florida (1949)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Freddy Plays Football (1949)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950)
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. And in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, she climbs through a mirror into a fantastical world.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes