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Fables Genre
Books in the Fables genre:
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
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
Just So Stories (1902)
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
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 Children’s Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language (1910)
Ranging from fables to fairy tales to ballads to myth, this anthology has stood the test of time. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
Maxfield Parrish
Et al
The Mysterious Stranger (1916)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Grateful Elephant and Other Stories Translated from the Pali (1923)
Twenty-six Buddhist parables. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Eugene Watson Burlingame
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Just So Stories (1930)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Hilarie Belloc’s Cautionary Verses (1931)
The complete collection of humorous verses by the English master.
Author(s):
Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s):
Nicolas Bentley
Basil T. Blackwood
Tommy, Tilly and Mrs. Tubbs (1936)
The further adventures of Mrs. Tubbs with the King of the water rats and the Queen of the swallows.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Treasure Book of Favorite Tales (1936)
A collection of thirty-six stories. Includes Little Folks of Other Lands, fairy tales and fables.
Author(s):
Watty Piper
Illustrator(s):
Eulalie Minfred Banks
Elizabeth Colborne
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Lois Lenski
Et al
Pilgrim’s Progress (1939)
Author(s):
John Bunyan
Mary Godolphin
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1940)
The puppet who wants to be a real boy.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)
An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Aesop’s Fables (1941)
Author(s):
Aesop
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Story of Simpson and Sampson (1941)
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Yankee Doodle’s Cousins (1941)
A compilation of stories about American folk heroes.
Author(s):
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey