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Poetry - Humorous Genre
Books in the Poetry - Humorous genre:
Horton Hatches the Egg (1940)
Animals for Me (1941)
A simple picture book for very young children about the animals around us.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Farm Stories (1946)
Fifty stories about farm activities with 100 color illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Poems of François Villon (1946)
A translation of the works of the rogue-poet of fifteenth century France.
Author(s):
François Villon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Christopher Robin’s Old Sailor and Other Selections from A.A. Milne (1947)
Stories and poems from the Winnie-the-Pooh corpus.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (1947)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Barnett Freedman
Edward Lear
Hey Nonny Yes (1947)
Selections from the Bard, illustrated by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
I Saw Esau (1947)
A collection of schoolyard rhymes. The illustrated dust jacket is from the second issue.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Anne Ainscough
McElligot’s Pool (1947)
You don’t know what you might catch when you go fishing in McElligot’s pool.
Read online at archive.org.
The Seaweed Hat (1947)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948)
Laughing Matter (1949)
Author(s):
Helen R. Smith
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950)
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. And in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, she climbs through a mirror into a fantastical world.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Christmas Treasure Book: Stories, Songs and Poems (1950)
An anthology of Christmas stories and poems featuring many of the Golden Book artists and writers.
Author(s):
Hilda Marx
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Tibor Gergely
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
Devonshire Cream (1950)
A collection of thirty-two poems.
Author(s):
Agnes Louise Dean
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
If I Ran the Zoo (1950)
Gerald McGrew designs a new zoo.
Read online at archive.org.
Now We Are Six (1950)
More poems about Christopher Robin and his friends. This edition was reset and the illustrations re-engraved.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
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 Tall Book of Make-Believe (1950)
An anthology of poems and stories.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
When We Were Very Young (1950)
This book of poems, originally published in Punch, introduced Christopher Robin and Edward (Winnie-the-Pooh) Bear.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard