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Fantasy - English Genre

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Books in the Fantasy - English genre:

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 Fair of St. James a Fantasia (1932)

While vacationing in France Laura stumbles on the Fair of St. James and meets many unusual personages.

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

Gub Gub’s Book (1932)

Gub Gub the pig expounds on the subject of food.

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

The Enchanted Castle (1933)

Jerry and Jimmy and Kathleen (who was never called that, but often simply Cat) are playing in the woods when they come on the castle and are soon caught in the toils of the magic.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): H. R. Millar

Goblin Market (1933)

The story of two sisters and a horde of goblins.

Author(s): Christina Rosetti
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Story of Little Black Sambo (1933)

A moveable version of the famous story of the little boy who outwits the tigers and has pancakes and butter as his reward.

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Wind in the Willows (1933)

This was the fourth fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger and their adventures on the riverbank. The British edition was published in 1931 and had a different dust jacket. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

A Christmas Carol (1934)

This edition of the classic story of the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge has a preface by Stephen Leacock.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): Gordon Ross

Mary Poppins (1934)

When the Banks family’s new nanny blows in on the east wind the children are in for a series of magical adventures. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard

Aboard the Bulger (1935)

Five children running away from an orphanage steal (or are stolen by?) a small ship and explore the Hebrides.

Author(s): Ann Scott Moncrieff
Illustrator(s): C. L. Davidson

The Box of Delights, or When the Wolves were Running (1935)

Kay Harker is on his way home for the Christmas holidays when he falls a sleep on the train and has a wonderful adventure.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Judith Masefield

The Box of Delights, or When the Wolves were Running (1935)

Kay Harker is on his way home for the Christmas holidays when he falls a sleep on the train and has a wonderful adventure.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Judith Masefield

Doctor Dolittle’s Birthday Book (1935)

Each page contains a quotation and picture from the Doctor Dolittle books and space to record birthday reminders.

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

Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935)

Mary Poppins returns on the end of Michael’s kite string.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard

All the Mowgli Stories (1936)

Mowgli was lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. This is a collection of short stories about him.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1936

Tommy, Tilly and Mrs. Tubbs (1936)

The further adventures of Mrs. Tubbs with the King of the water rats and the Queen of the swallows.

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

From the Horn of the Moon (1937)

In this second book about the adventures of the Wee Men, we learn about the Moving of the Bog, Willie the Wagger and the Fishing Clan, and the Pigs in the Castle. Robert Lawson drew the pictures.... View More

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

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937)

The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.

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

The Reluctant Dragon (1938)

The Boy, the Dragon and St. George, arrange a satisfactory solution to the problem of a dragon living up on the Downs. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Beowulf (1939)

A famous epic written in Old English about the hero Beowulf and his battles against the monsters of the north. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): William Ellery Leonard
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

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