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Fairy Tales - Modern Genre

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Books in the Fairy Tales - Modern genre:

A Road to Fairyland (1926)

A collection of new fairy tales.

Author(s): Erica Fay
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Tales from the Enchanted Isles (1926)

A collection of fairy tales.

Author(s): Ethel May Gate
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

A Book of Princess Stories (1927)

Seventeen princess stories.

Mopsa the Fairy (1927)

Jack comes to the aid of a fairy who takes him on a wonder voyage.

Author(s): Jean Ingelow
Illustrator(s): Dugald Stewart Walker

A Book of Enchantment (1928)

A collection of thirteen fairy tales.

The Funny Thing (1929)

Bobo lives in a cozy, well-appointed cave and spends all his time cooking customized, delicious-sounding meals for the local animals. Then one day, a dragonlike entity appears and requests a meal made of doll heads. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

The Long Bright Land: Fairy Tales from the Southern Seas (1929)

A collection of fairy tales from the Maori peoples of the Pacific islands.

Author(s): Edith Annie Howes
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Mr. Hermit Crab (1929)

A fairy tale about two young girls, a Malicious Fairy and a young giant, Mr. Hermit Crab.

Author(s): Mimpsy Rhys
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Rootabaga Country: Selections from Rootabaga Stories & Rootabaga Pigeons (1929)

A selection of stories from the first two volumes of Rootabaga Stories.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Peggy Bacon

Sally Gabble and the Fairies (1929)

When Sally Gabble traps a fairy in her garden, her troubles are just beginning.

Author(s): Miriam Clark Potter
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

La Mésaventure de Madame Popotte (1930)

French translation of The Story of Mrs. Tubbs.

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

Potato Face (1930)

A further collection of Rootabaga stories from the Potato Face Blind Man.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): None

The Sun Princess (1930)

This is a later reprint of Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories (1931)

A collection of original fairy stories.

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

The Fairy Circus (1931)

Inspired by a human circus that performs in their meadow, the fairies put on a circus of their own for the woodland creatures.

Author(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1932
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1932

Moving of the Bog (1931)

This chapter from From the Horn of the Moon was published in St. Nicholas magazine, Volume LVIII, Number 9, July 1931, page 644. The pictures by Robert Lawson are printed at much larger scale than in the book.... View More

Author(s): Arthur Mason
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

The Chronicles of Pantouflia (1932)

Includes Prince Prigio and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Gordon Browne

The King of the Golden River (1932)

The story of Gluck and his two evil brothers.

Author(s): John Ruskin
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Unicorn with Silver Shoes (1932)

Ballor’s Son tires of life at the court of the King his father and crosses over into the the Land of the Ever Young where he learns to shoe horses, kelpies and unicorns under the tutelage of the Pooka. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ella Young
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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