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Fables Genre
Books in the Fables genre:
The Strange Surprising Adventures of the Venerable Gooroo Simple (1861)
Author(s):
Constantine Joseph Beschi
Illustrator(s):
Alfred Crowquill
The Children's Funny Book (1879)
A collection of verse, nonsense and cautionary. Read online at Baldwin Library.
Author(s):
Palmer Cox
Kirk Munroe
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Cox
Et al
Easy Reading for Little Readers (1880)
Author(s):
Richard Doyle
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Et al
A Holiday Greeting (1880)
A collection of stories and poems. Read online at Baldwin Library.
Author(s):
Palmer Cox
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Cox
What the Blackbird Said (1881)
A combination of the natural history of birds and moral instruction. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Mrs. Frederick Locker
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Pepper & Salt. or Seasoning for Young Folk (1886)
A collection of original tales, quite in the old style. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
The History of Reynard the Fox (1894)
Author(s):
William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts: Verses (1896)
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Basil T. Blackwood
More Beasts (for Worse Children): Verses (1897)
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Basil T. Blackwood
Fables for the Frivolous (1898)
These humorous verse renderings of the familiar Aesop fables are ideal for memorization. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
A Moral Alphabet (In Words of from One to Seven Syllables) (1899)
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Basil T. Blackwood
The Book of Nature Myths (1902)
An elementary school reader featuring fifty-four nature myths, mainly from Native American sources. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Florence Holbrook
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Just So Stories (1902)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories (1902)
A collection of stories describing how the animals got the way they are -- each to be told ‘just so.’ Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Rudyard Kipling
The Curious Book of Birds (1903)
A collection of folk tales about birds. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Author(s):
Abbie Farwell Brown
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Just So Stories for Little Children (1903)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Woodmyth and Fable (1905)
A collection of short myths or fables, most with a moral. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Thompson Seton
Cautionary Tales for Children: Verses (1907)
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Basil T. Blackwood
The Land of Enchantment (1907)
A collection of new fairy tales. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
A. E. Bonser
E. S. Buchheim
B. Sidney Woolf
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai (1908)
Thirty-four Indian fables. Read for free online at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Author(s):
Maude Barrows Dutton
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith