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Fairy Tales - Modern Genre
Books in the Fairy Tales - Modern genre:
Broomstick and Snowflake (1933)
Broomstick the tanner’s son falls in love with Snowflake the giant’s daughter but must rescue her from the gnomes before he can make her his wife in this Norwegian fairy tale.
Author(s):
Johan Falkberget
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Little White Goat (1933)
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Seldom and the Golden Cheese (1933)
A good natured satire on fairy tale themes as Seldom is sent out into the world to earn his living. Is gold better than cheese?
Author(s):
Joseph Schrank
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Snail Who Ran (1934)
A fairy grants wishes to a snail, a mouse and an elf.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Treasure of the Isle of Mist (1934)
Author(s):
William W. Tarn
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Enchanted Castle (1935)
Bebe and Jean go on a believing journey to Colleen Moore’s Doll House.
Author(s):
Colleen Moore
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
The Selfish Giant and Other Stories (1935)
Six literary fairy tales, including The Magic Fishbone and Perez the Mouse.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Snickerty Nick & the Giant (1935)
Author(s):
Julia Ellsworth Ford
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Granny’s Wonderful Chair (1936)
When Snowflower is seated in her grandmother’s chair, it tells her stories.
Author(s):
Frances Browne
Illustrator(s):
Denys Watkins-Pitchford
From the Horn of the Moon (1937)
Author(s):
Arthur Mason
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Magic Hill and Other Stories (1937)
Six short stories by the author of Winnie the Pooh.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
One Foot in Fairyland (1938)
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939)
Cottontail is only a little country bunny, but she is wise, kind, swift and clever and so the Grandfather bunny chooses her as one of the five Easter Bunnies.
Author(s):
DuBose Heyward
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1940)
The puppet who wants to be a real boy.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Flying Locomotive (1941)
Toto Number 2 wants to be a Swiss Flyer. When his fairy godmother gives him the power to fly, he helps Madame Suzie, the famous Swiss cow save a mountaineer in distress.
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
The Little Grey Men (1942)
The last four gnomes in England live by a brook in Warwickshire. When Cloudberry does not return from an exploring expedition, the other three set out to find him.
Author(s):
BB
Illustrator(s):
Denys Watkins-Pitchford
Prince Prigio (1942)
At his christening, an evil fairy gives Prince Prigio the gift of being too clever. Fortunately, with the help of the magic gifts of his other fairy godmothers, everything turns out in the end.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Dragon John (1943)
Dragon John can only be returned to his true form as a prince if someone freely gives him a flower.
Author(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
The Little Prince (1943)
Author(s):
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Illustrator(s):
None
Oswald’s Pet Dragon (1943)
Oswald is an amateur magician whose household tricks annoy his wife. He finds a unique solution to keeping his dragon for a pet while satisfying his critical wife.
Author(s):
Carl Glick
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese