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Songs Genre
Books in the Songs genre:
Sing for America (1944)
Favorite American songs with stories and illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
We Three Kings and Other Christmas Carols (1944)
An illustrated collection of traditional Christmas carols with music.
Author(s):
Various
Henry F. Waldstein
Illustrator(s):
H. A. Rey
The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles (1945)
A collection of songs and jingles.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Author(s):
Grace Castagnetta
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Golden Sleepy Book (1948)
This is a collection of stories, poems and songs about sleep.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Lark in the Morn (1948)
Kit Haverard discovers she is meant to be a singer.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
A Day at the Zoo (1950)
This celebration of the zoo includes a song. Later editions have fewer pages.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Ethel Crowninshield
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Lark on the Wing (1950)
Kit Haverard pursues her vocation as a singer in London.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
Storytime Tales (1950)
A collection of sixty-seven favorite stories, poems and songs. There is also an early edition with forty-two selections.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Lois Lenski
Carl Sandburg
Val Teal
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Corinne Malvern
The Golden Grab Bag of Stories, Poems and Songs (1951)
A nice compendium of stories, poems and songs.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Mary Had a Little Lamb and Other Nursery Songs (1951)
A collection of nursery rhymes with music.
Prairie School (1951)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
We Are Thy Children (1952)
A collection of hymns for children.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Bring on the Girls (1953)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy. This is a somewhat revised edition of the first American Simon and Schuster edition of 1953.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Bring on the Girls (1953)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Bacon
The Story of Peter Tschaikowsky Part One (1953)
The famous Russian composer for children.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Songs of Mr. Small (1954)
Twenty-one songs of Mr. Small.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Frog Went A-Courtin’ (1955)
Frog went a-courtin’, he did ride
Sword and pistol by his side.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Langstaff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Little Brass Band (1955)
The band members assemble along the road to town where they give a concert, then return home.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Clement Hurd
A Cat Came Fiddling (1956)
A collection of fifty-seven traditional nursery rhymes set to music.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Paul Kapp
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas