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Babies Genre
Books in the Babies genre:
The Incubator Baby (1906)
Baby Marjorie triumphs over the committee and her scientific upbringing. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
The Confessions of a Daddy (1907)
A hymn to fatherhood, and motherhood. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Fanny Y. Cory
The Cheerful Smugglers (1908)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
The Water Babies (1916)
Tom the chimney sweep is swept away to the bottom of the sea. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Little One’s Log (1927)
A baby book.
Author(s):
Eva Violet Isaacs Erleigh
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Two Brothers and Their Baby Sister (1930)
Brothers Jonathan Joseph and Frederick Philip babysit for their baby sister.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Christ Child (1931)
The story of the Nativity from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.
Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Little Baby Ann (1935)
Follows baby Ann through her first year.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Little Ones (1935)
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Wild Animals and their Little Ones (1935)
Pictures of animals and their young. A shortened version of the French Pere Castor edition.
Author(s):
Rose Celli
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Wild Animals at Home (1935)
A collection of pictures of animal mothers and their young. This edition is somewhat abbreviated compared with the French original Pere Castor publication.
Author(s):
Marguerite Reynier
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Another Here and Now Story Book (1937)
A collection of stories aimed at children of certain ages.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Rosalie Slocum
The Princess and the Apple Tree: And Other Stories (1937)
Six short stories, mainly about young children, verging on nonsense.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Quito Express (1938)
A baby stows away on the Quito Express.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Make Way for Ducklings (1941)
Mrs. Mallard proudly parades her ducklings to the Boston Public Garden.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Tag-Along Tooloo (1941)
Tooloo is too little to play with the big girls, but she still wants to tag-along.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Frances Clarke Sayers
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Hi-Po the Hippo (1942)
When a baby hippo is left on their front lawn, Mr. and Mrs Hippo decide to keep him.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
How the Baby Hippo Found a Home (1942)
One morning Mr. and Mrs. Hippo find a baby in a basket by their front door. Mr. Hippo decides to keep the little boy whose name is Hi-Po.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
A Child’s Good Night Book (1943)
A first going to bed book.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Jean Charlot
The Golden Book of Birds (1943)
A collection of ten stories about birds.
Author(s):
Hazel Lockwood
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky