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Poetry - Ballads Genre
Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:
The Christmas Treasure Book: Stories, Songs and Poems (1950)
An anthology of Christmas stories and poems featuring many of the Golden Book artists and writers.
Author(s):
Hilda Marx
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Tibor Gergely
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
Devonshire Cream (1950)
A collection of thirty-two poems.
Author(s):
Agnes Louise Dean
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
I Like Winter (1950)
The joys of a northern winter.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Now We Are Six (1950)
More poems about Christopher Robin and his friends. This edition was reset and the illustrations re-engraved.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1950)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions had only twenty-six or twenty-four. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Storytime Tales (1950)
A collection of sixty-seven favorite stories, poems and songs. There is also an early edition with forty-two selections.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Lois Lenski
Carl Sandburg
Val Teal
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Corinne Malvern
The Tall Book of Make-Believe (1950)
An anthology of poems and stories.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
When We Were Very Young (1950)
This book of poems, originally published in Punch, introduced Christopher Robin and Edward (Winnie-the-Pooh) Bear.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1951)
An omnibus including five books: A Book of Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, &c., and Laughable Lyrics and Nonsense Songs and Stories.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Freddy Goes to the North Pole (1951)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Golden Grab Bag of Stories, Poems and Songs (1951)
A nice compendium of stories, poems and songs.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Night Before Christmas (1951)
T’was the night before Christmas
And all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring
Note even a mouse.
Author(s):
Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Our Friendly Friends (1951)
Verses about our animal friends.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Red Head (1951)
Fritz had hair of a beautiful red,
Not auburn, or ginger, or sandy, but red.
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Blackbird in the Lilac (1952)
A collection of poems for children.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Freddy and Freginald (1952)
Freginald, the bear poet, joins Mr. Boomschmidt’s Circus and meets Freddy the pig poet. This is the British edition of The Story of Freginald.
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Idylls of the King (1952)
A cycle of poems on Arthurian themes.
Author(s):
Alfred Tennyson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry (1952)
A collection of poems which tell a story.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
Bring on the Girls (1953)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Bacon
Bring on the Girls (1953)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy. This is a somewhat revised edition of the first American Simon and Schuster edition of 1953.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Photographs