Fantasy - American Genre
Books in the Fantasy - American genre:
The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby (1956)
On another lavender blue day Anna Lavinia explores dew pond hill and travels through the dew pond to meet her cousin Toby.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
Magic by the Lake (1957)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1957)
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
The Warmhearted Polar Bear (1957)
Whitey is a polar bear who is tamed by a ship’s crew and doesn’t want to go back to the rough life of the arctic -- so he heads for Florida.
Author(s):
Robert Murphy
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Harold at the North Pole (1958)
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
The Time Garden (1958)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Upside-Down Town (1958)
As you might guess, everything is upside-down in this strange town, but the inhabitants seem to enjoy it.
Author(s):
F. Emerson Andrews
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Wide-Awake Owl (1958)
Olga the owl cannot get to sleep. She asks all the other birds and animals but nothing works, until at last the thrush explains the secret to her.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Clean Clarence (1959)
Clarence is not piggish, but after a time he wearies of his television show and just wants to be a pig.
Author(s):
Otto Friedrich
Priscilla Friedrich
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Gammage Cup (1959)
Author(s):
Carol Kendall
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Martin’s Dinosaur (1959)
Author(s):
Reda Davis
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Marshmallow Ghosts (1960)
Author(s):
Otto Friedrich
Priscilla Friedrich
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Trouble with Jenny’s Ear (1960)
When Jenny starts hearing people’s thoughts, her brothers figure out how to cash in.
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Author(s):
Oliver Butterworth
Illustrator(s):
Julian de Miskey
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Witch Family (1960)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Diamond in the Window (1962)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Singing Cupboard (1962)
Author(s):
Dana Faralla
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Three-Seated Space Ship (1962)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Beautiful Culpeppers (1963)
Author(s):
Marion Upington
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Whisper of Glocken (1965)
The Watercress River has been dammed. Five intrepid Minnipins set out to find the cause and save the people of the Land Between the Mountains.
Author(s):
Carol Kendall
Illustrator(s):
Imero Gobbato
The Muffletumps The Story of Four Dolls (1966)
Author(s):
Jan Wahl
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Trumpet of the Swan (1970)
When Louis, a trumpeter swan is born, he is mute. This is the story of how he finds a voice, with the help of his friends and wins his true love.
Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Edward Frascino
The Finches’ Fabulous Furnace (1971)
Author(s):
Roger Wolcott Drury
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Freaky Friday (1972)
Author(s):
Mary Rodgers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Gorey
A Billion for Boris (1974)
When Benjamin ‘Ape Face’ Andrews fixes an old TV set it starts to show tomorrow’s news. Complications ensue.
Author(s):
Mary Rodgers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Gorey
The Maggie B (1975)
Margaret wants to sail for a day in a boat named for her with someone nice for company.
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Author(s):
Irene Haas
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
A Book of Unicorns (1978)
Author(s):
Welleran Poltarnees
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Michael Hague
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Mercer Mayer
Kay Nielsen
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The Cabbage Moth and the Shamrock (1978)
Author(s):
Ethel Marbach
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Inside a Sand Castle (1978)
Author(s):
Mary Louise Cuneo
Illustrator(s):
Jan Brett
Dream Weaver (1979)
Author(s):
Jane Yolen
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
A Necklace of Fallen Stars (1979)
Princess Kaela runs away from home and her father sends a wizard to bring her back.
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Author(s):
Beth Hilgartner
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Bramble Beaver’s Bright Idea (1980)
Author(s):
Marci Ridlon
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
A Mouse Called Junction (1980)
A foolish and inexperienced mouse is rescued by a rat.
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Author(s):
Julia Cunningham
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Seasons with V. B. Bird (1980)
Author(s):
Marci Ridlon
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Unicorn and the Lake (1982)
Author(s):
Marianna Mayer
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Velveteen Rabbit (1983)
The velveteen rabbit learns what it means to be real.
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Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Birth of the Firebringer (1985)
Author(s):
Meredith Ann Pierce
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Legend of the Veery Bird (1985)
The Keeper of the Forest gives the world the Veery Bird.
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Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Michael Hague’s World of Unicorns (1986)
Author(s):
Michael Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Out of the Nursery, Into the Night (1986)
Author(s):
Kathleen Hague
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Rootabaga Stories - Part One (1988)
Fairy tales as American as the Iowa cornfields.
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Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Rootabaga Stories - Part Two (1989)
American fairy tales including how the Huckabuck family raised popcorn in Nebraska.
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Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
The Unicorn Alphabet (1989)
Unicorns introduce the alphabet.
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Author(s):
Marianna Mayer
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Berlioz the Bear (1991)
June 29, 1999 (1992)
Author(s):
David Wiesner
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Trouble with Trolls (1992)
Christmas Trolls (1993)
The Thief (1996)
Author(s):
Megan Whalen Turner
Illustrator(s):
Walter Gaffney-Kessell
The Gingerbread Baby (1999)
Sector 7 (1999)
Author(s):
David Wiesner
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Hedgie’s Surprise (2000)
Hedgie helps Henny hen hide her eggs from the mischievous Tomten.
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The Queen of Attolia (2000)
Author(s):
Megan Whalen Turner
Illustrator(s):
Walter Gaffney-Kessell
The Wizard of Oz (2000)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Christmas Treasury (2001)
Author(s):
Jan Brett
Clement C. Moore
Illustrator(s):
Jan Brett
The Umbrella (2004)
Hedgie Blasts Off! (2006)
The King of Attolia (2006)
Author(s):
Megan Whalen Turner
Illustrator(s):
Vince Natale
Gingerbread Friends (2008)
A Conspiracy of Kings (2010)
Sophos, heir to the King of Sounis, finds himself a field slave on the estate of his father’s enemy.
Author(s):
Megan Whalen Turner
Illustrator(s):
Vince Natale
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