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Poetry - Ballads Genre
Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1969)
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a very popular collection of poems first published in 1913.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat (1969)
The Quangle Wangle lives in the top of the Crumpetty tree.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Helen Oxenbury
The Shooting of Dan McGrew and the Cremation of Sam McGee (1969)
Designed by Susan Jeffers.
Author(s):
Robert W. Service
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Rosemary Wells
Spring Song (1969)
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Sumner A. Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Morrow
Why You Look Like You, Whereas I Tend to Look Like Me (1969)
Mendelian inheritance for younger children.
Author(s):
Charlotte Pomerantz
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Rosemary Wells
The Isle of Gramarye (1970)
An anthology of the poetry of magic.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Orchestra Mice (1970)
Clarissa and Stan Mouse raise a family of twelve musician mice.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Morrow
All Along Down Along: A Book of Stories in Verse (1971)
A collection of story poems for young people.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
City Poems (1971)
A collection of the author’s poems about city life.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Florida, My Florida (1971)
A collection of poems about her adopted state.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Tenggren’s Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1971)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions like this one had only twenty-six or even twenty-four as in the 2006 edition. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Old Ballad of the Babes in the Wood (1972)
Author(s):
Kathleen Lines
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Rojankovsky’s Wonderful Picture Book (1972)
A collection of some of Rojankovsky’s best illustrations from the Golden Books.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Georges Duplaix
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Complete Poems for Children (1973)
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse (1973)
The object of this collection is "to make available in one place the classics of children's poetry: that small satchelful of verse whose existence constitutes one of the pleasing advantages of being born to the English tongue."
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
None
Providence Street (1973)
Short poems about the residents of Providence Street.
Author(s):
Ivy Eastwick
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
The Star-Spangled Banner (1973)
Author(s):
Francis Scott Key
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Let’s Marry Said the Cherry, and Other Nonsense Poems (1974)
A collection of nonsense poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Most of the Time Maxie (1974)
Maxie has a fertile imagination.
Author(s):
Adelaide Holl
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
A Book of Bosh (1975)
An anthology of lyrics and prose.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear