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Poetry - Lyric Genre
Books in the Poetry - Lyric genre:
Farm Stories (1946)
Fifty stories about farm activities with 100 color illustrations by Tenggren.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1946)
A collection of poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
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
Hey Nonny Yes (1947)
Selections from the Bard, illustrated by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Read-to-Me Storybook (1947)
An anthology of stories and poems for young children.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Kate Greenaway
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Miriam Clark Potter
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Golden Sleepy Book (1948)
This is a collection of stories, poems and songs about sleep.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
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
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
The Blackbird in the Lilac (1952)
A collection of poems for children.
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Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Idylls of the King (1952)
A cycle of poems on Arthurian themes.
Author(s):
Alfred Tennyson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry (1952)
A collection of poems which tell a story.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
Poems of Emily Dickinson (1952)
A generous selection from the work of the great American poet.
Author(s):
Emily Dickinson
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
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 Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
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