Reference Genre
Books in the Reference genre:
English Illustration: The Nineties (1935)
Author(s):
James Thorpe
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
The Story Book of Aircraft (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Coal (1935)
A book about coal and its many uses.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Earth’s Treasures (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Gold (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Iron and Steel (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Oil (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Ships (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Ships and Trains (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Wheels (1935)
Wheels, wheels, wheels, wheels everywhere.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Wheels, Ships, Trains, Aircraft (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography (1936)
Author(s):
Grace Clark Haskell
Sarah Briggs Latimore
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
First Adventures in Reading (1936)
Author(s):
May Lamberton Becker
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
The Story Book of Foods from the Field (1936)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Sugar (1936)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Wheat (1936)
The staff of life - where it comes from, how we use it.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Cotton (1939)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Rayon (1939)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Things We Wear: Wool, Cotton, Silk, Rayon (1939)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Wool (1939)
Where it comes from, how we process it, why we wear it.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Jacovleff and Other Artists (1946)
Author(s):
Martin Birnbaum
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
Illustrators of Children’s Books: 1744-1945 (1947)
Essays on children’s book illustrators along with extensive bibliographies.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Bertha E. Mahony
May Massee
Lynd Ward
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Lynd Ward
Et al
The Story Book of Coal and Oil (1948)
An anthology containing The Story Book of Coal and The Story Book of Oil.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Children’s Hour Volume 16 (1953)
A collection of short science fiction. and the various indexes to the set.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Heinlein
Various
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
Hardie Gramatky
Et al
Reading Without Boundaries (1956)
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Valenti Angelo
Lois Lenski: Friend of Children (1958)
A brief review of the work of Lois Lenski put out by her publishers.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Work of Rex Whistler (1960)
Author(s):
Ronald Fuller
Laurence Whistler
Illustrator(s):
Rex Whistler
Lois Lenski: An Appreciation (1963)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
Illustrator(s):
None
The Lois Lenski Collection in the Florida State University Library (1966)
Author(s):
Nancy Bird
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
James Henry Daugherty (1975)
Author(s):
Edward Kemp
Elaine Kemp
Lynd Ward
Et al
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Randolph Caldecott ‘Lord of the Nursery’ (1976)
A brief biography accompanied by a vary large sample of the artist’s work and a comprehensive bibliography.
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Flowering of New England 1815-1865 (1979)
Author(s):
Van Wyck Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Richard Doyle (1983)
A biography of the artist, with a review of the critical reception in his own time.
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Richard Doyle and His Family (1983)
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Michael Heseltine
Lionel Lambourne
Illustrator(s):
None
Scribner Illustrated Classics (1983)
Author(s):
Jim Best
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Printed Kate Greenaway (1986)
Probably as complete a catalog of Kate Greenaway as can be assembled.
Author(s):
Rodney K. Engen
Thomas E. Schuster
Illustrator(s):
Kate Greenaway
Randolph Caldecott 1846-1886 (1986)
Author(s):
Nancy Finlay
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose, or, Old Nursery Rhymes (1988)
Author(s):
Kate Greenaway
Illustrator(s):
Kate Greenaway
Nonsensus: Cross-Referencing Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense (1988)
The first three editions of A Book of Nonsense are compared to the various original manuscripts. Includes a census of the then-known copies of the two-volume first edition.
Author(s):
Justin G. Schiller
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
Children and Books (1991)
Author(s):
May Hill Arbuthnot
Zena Sutherland
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
Et al
The Susan Jeffers Connection (1992)
A critical guide to the work of Susan Jeffers.
Author(s):
Will C. Howell
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
The Zena Sutherland Lectures 1983-1992 (1993)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
A Catalogue of the Cotsen Children’s Library: The Twentieth Century (2000)
John Masefield the ‘Great Auk’ of English Literature (2004)
A comprehensive bibliography of the British poet laureate.
Author(s):
Philip W. Errington
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
John Lavery
Photographs
Celebrating Antonia Forest (2008)
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Various
Illustrator(s):
None
Appalachian Children’s Literature (2010)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
None
Randolph Caldecott the Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing (2013)
A brief critical biography of the famous illustrator.
Author(s):
Leonard S. Marcus
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Lois Lenski Storycatcher (2016)
A biography of the noted children’s book author and artist.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Bobbie Malone
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
John Stanley: Giving Life to Little Lulu (2017)
This biography covers the career of John Stanley who wrote and often drew the Little Lulu comic books.
Author(s):
Bill Schelly
Illustrator(s):
John Stanley
A Catalogue of the Cotsen Children’s Library: The Nineteenth Century (2019)
This two-volume work catalogs the books in the children's collection accumulated under the Cotsen designation at Princeton University. The collection is very wide-ranging but not comprehensive. More than 6,370 entries are included.
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