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Fables Genre
Books in the Fables genre:
Many Moons (1943)
Author(s):
James Thurber
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Sun and The Wind and Mr. Todd (1943)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Tall Book of Nursery Tales (1944)
A collection of classic nursery tales.
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories (1946)
Author(s):
May Hill Arbuthnot
Ludwig Bemelmans
William S. Gray
Illustrator(s):
Anne Fleur
Why the Bear Has a Short Tail and Other Stories (1946)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Anne Fleur
The Butterfly that Stamped (1947)
The butterfly has a quarrel with his wife and is overheard by King Solomon.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Rogue Reynard (1947)
The trickster fox defeats his enemies.
Author(s):
Andre Norton
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon
Dick Whittington & His Cat (1949)
Robert Lawson has retold and illustrated in color this classic story of Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London, and his cat.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Oldebus (1949)
Author(s):
Miguel de Cervantes
Powell Perry
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Lawrence Josset
Tom Kerr
The King and the Noble Blacksmith (1950)
The young king has a counselor for everything, except for fishing. When the blacksmith recovers his lost crown the king decides to make him the counselor of counselors, and the counselor for fishing.
Author(s):
Jacob Blanck
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Trees Kneel at Christmas (1950)
Afify and Hanna go to Prospect Park on Christmas Eve to see the trees kneel. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Howe
The Children’s Hour Volume 2 (1953)
The Loudest Noise in the World (1954)
A prince asks his father the King for the loudest noise in the world for his birthday.
Author(s):
Benjamin Elkin
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Shoes Fit for a King (1956)
The shoes are impatient to see the King so they run off to the palace with ruinous results. But all ends well.
Author(s):
Helen E. Bill
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The White Bunny and His Magic Nose (1957)
Author(s):
Lily Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Fun and Fantasy (1958)
An anthology of imaginative stories and poems for older readers.
Mostly Magic (1958)
A collection of traditional fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes for younger children.
The Picnic: A Frolic in Two Colors and Three Parts (1958)
A retelling of the fable of the lion and the mouse.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Best in Children’s Books Volume 24 (1959)
Exploits of Don Quixote (1959)
The most famous exploits of the muddle-headed Don for younger readers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Miguel de Cervantes
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone