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Poetry - Ballads Genre

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Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:

Is There a Mouse in the House? (1965)

Is there a mouse in the house? So it would seem.

Author(s): Josephine Gibson
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

The Life I Live: Collected Poems (1965)

The author’s collected poetry.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Runaway Toys (1965)

The toys in the shop don’t want to be given to children, but Santa changes their minds.

Author(s): Evelyn Hart
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

Aliciae per Speculum Tansitus (1966)

A Latin translation of the sequel to the most famous and popular fantasy novel in English.

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): John Tenniel

Ann at Highwood Hall (1966)

A collection of poems by a noted British author.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Robert Graves
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (1966)

This collection includes The Ballad of the White Horse as well as the shorter poems.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): None

The Good-Byes of Magnus Marmalade (1966)

Magnus lets his true feelings flow in poetry.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Doris Orgel
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

The Tolkien Reader (1966)

This collection includes The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Autumn Tales (1967)

Seventy-six short stories and poems.

Author(s): Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Beginning-To-Read Poetry: Selected from Original Sources (1967)

First poems for young children.

Author(s): Sally Clithero
Illustrator(s): Erik Blegvad

The Christopher Robin Book of Verse (1967)

Twenty-four selected verses from When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six.The illustrations are new and in color. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Even Tiny Ants Must Sleep (1967)

Rhyming verse explains that everything has to sleep sometime.

Author(s): Harold J. Saleh
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Here and There: One Hundred Poems about Places (1967)

An anthology of poems dealing with places, both real and imaginary. 

Author(s): Elinor Parker
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

London Bridge is Falling Down (1967)

London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down,London Bridge is falling down, My fair Lady! Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Hurrah, We’re Outward Bound! (1968)

A collection of sea chanteys and salt-water rhymes accompanies the story of the first voyage of La Jeune Francaise from Honfleur, France to New York, Dartmouth and home again.

Author(s): Peter Spier
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Lois Lenski’s Christmas Stories (1968)

Several Christmas stories from the author’s previously-published books, along with two new stories, poems and a play. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Rhymes of Nonsense: An Alphabet (1968)

This alphabet was written around 1862 and is here first published in facsimile.

Author(s): Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): Edward Lear

The Scroobious Pip (1968)

The Scroobious Pip went out one day When the grass was green and the sky was gray. Then all the beasts in the world came round When the Scroobious Pip sat down on the ground. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Edward Lear
Ogden Nash
Illustrator(s): Nancy Ekholm Burkert

Brave Johnny O’Hare (1969)

Brave Johnny O’Hare is a little Australian boy who is not afraid of anything, even the Bunyip, until one night …

Author(s): Eleanor B. Heady
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

Debbie Herself (1969)

Tells about Debbie’s daily activities in verse.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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