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Poetry - Ballads Genre
Books in the Poetry - Ballads genre:
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
A Flower Wedding Described by Two Wallflowers (1905)
An illustrated poem. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Walter Crane
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Friendly Town (1905)
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The One Hoss Shay with its Companion Poems (1905)
The wonderful one hoss shay. It ran for a hundred years to a day. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden: A Posy from the Plays (1906)
Humanized flowers to illustrate Shakespearean lines. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Procession of the Months (1906)
Illustrations of the months with calendars. Read for Free online at Harvard University.
Author(s):
Beatrice Crane
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907)
Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Another Book of Verses for Children (1907)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Cautionary Tales for Children: Verses (1907)
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Basil T. Blackwood
Johnny Crow’s Party: Another Picture Book (1907)
Johnny summons his friends to a garden party. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Old Fashioned Stories and Poems Volume VI (1907)
An anthology from the early part of the twentieth century. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Walter Crane
Et al
Poems and Rhymes (1907)
A collection of poems with illustrations by many artists. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Howard Pyle
E. Boyd Smith
Et al
The Children’s Longfellow (1908)
This is a much larger selection of Longfellow’s work Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Children’s Own Longfellow (1908)
This version contains only eight poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Cotter’s Saturday Night (1908)
Author(s):
Robert Burns
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
M. Webb
The Globe By the Way Book (1908)
Early newpaper columns by the master.
Author(s):
Herbert Westbrook
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
W. K. Haselden
The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book (1910)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Ann Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Children’s Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language (1910)
Ranging from fables to fairy tales to ballads to myth, this anthology has stood the test of time. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Maxfield Parrish
Et al