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Fairy Tales - Modern Genre

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Books in the Fairy Tales - Modern genre:

Pinocchio (1946)

Pinocchio the wooden puppet learns from his mistakes and at last becomes a real boy.

Author(s): Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Pinocchio (1946)

Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy.

Author(s): Allen Chaffee
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups (1946)

This fairy-tale about “magicians, devils, pantomime animals, and planetary angels” was prescient. Colleges like Bracton are now more the rule than the exception and the N.I.C.E. was indeed set up in England where its work is much the same... View More

Author(s): C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Enchanted Book Stories From Many Lands (1947)

This is a fairy tale anthology.

Author(s): Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s): Concetta Cacciola

Golden Book of Nursery Tales (1948)

A collection of favorite nursery tales.

Author(s): Elsa Jane Werner
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

The Green Fairy Book (1948)

A collection of classic fairy tales.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Lake Gregory

Jonathan and the Rainbow (1948)

A pirate captain, a boy just learning to read and The Rainbow Painter’s Society Chapter Number One-Nine-Thee-Eight -- and one very beautiful rainbow rolled up in the cellar.

Author(s): Jacob Blanck
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1949

Robbut a Tale of Tails (1948)

When Robbut saves the Little Man from a trap, he gets his heart’s desire, three times, but in the ends decides he is better off just as he was. The cover on the trade edition is the same as the dust jacket while the Junior Literary Guild editio... View More

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1948

The Rose and the Ring (1948)

A complicated tale of two princesses and two princes and the Fairy Blackstick.

The Rose Fairy Book (1948)

A selection of tales from the Brown, Grey, Lilac, Orange and Pink Fairy Books.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Vera Bock

Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)

The story of a brave farmer and an evil dragon by the author of The Hobbit.

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Oldebus (1949)

A collection of shorter stories previously published separately, including Mythical Monsters and “The Magic Flute.” Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.... View More

The Princess and the Goblin (1949)

The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Charles Folkard

13 Clocks (1950)

A wicked Duke imagines he has killed time itself.

Author(s): James Thurber
Illustrator(s): Marc Simont

Mr. Mushroom (1950)

Mr. Mushroom is a good neighbor.

Author(s): Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

The Olive Fairy Book (1950)

This new edition has a somewhat different selection of stories than the original edition.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Anne Vaughan

The Red Fairy Book (1950)

In this, the second of his fairy tale books, Andrew Lang does take a hand in the writing.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Marc Simont

Rootabaga Stories (1951)

Omnilbus collection of American fairy tales from the poet of the prairies including Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

The Violet Fairy Book (1951)

A collection of traditional fairy tales from many lands, with new illustrations.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Lake Gregory

Annabel and Bryony (1953)

Annabel and her friends go to the land of the flower fairies and are captured by the frost fairies. Bryony helps them escape from captivity.

Author(s): Marjorie Phillips
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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