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Little Pictures of Japan (1925)

This anthology includes Japanese haiku and two longer fairy tales.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Katharine Sturges

Nursery Friends from France (1925)

A collection of songs, nursery rhymes and tales from France intended for younger children. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Tales Told In Holland (1926)

A collection of stories, poems and pictures from Holland.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Balloon Moon (1927)

Ninety-nine poems for children.

Author(s): Elise Pumpelly Cabot
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

City Stories: Told by Children as They Go Exploring New York (1928)

Stories and poems first graders told their teacher at the Lincoln School in New York City. There was also an edition in Russian.

Menagerie (1928)

Poems, mainly about animals.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Mary Britton Miller
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Chimney Corner Poems (1929)

A collection of famous poems for children.

The Day of Doom (1929)

A religious poem that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662.It describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all people.

Author(s): Michael Wigglesworth
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

Early Moon (1930)

A collection of poems by the Prairie Poet.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1930

Poems from Arabesque (1930)

Poems and short pieces originally performed over the radio by Yolande Langworthy.

Author(s): Yolande Langworthy
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Stars To-Night (1930)

A collection of poems for children. Some were previously published in Scribner’s Magazine, The Yale Review, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Poetry.

Author(s): Sara Teasdale
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Under the Tree (1930)

A collection of poems for children. This is the second, enlaraged, illustrated, edition.

Author(s): Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford

Two-and-Twenty (1931)

The story of a pugilist poet who ends up a medical man.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Two-and-Twenty (1931)

The story of a pugilist poet who ends up a medical man.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)

A selection of poems by a famous Black American poet.

Author(s): Langston Hughes
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Branches Green (1934)

A collection of nature poems for children.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Rachel Field
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Me an’ Pete (1934)

A book of verse for children.

Author(s): Wendell McKown
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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