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Fantasy - English Genre
Books in the Fantasy - English genre:
An Experiment with St. George (1939)
St George and the Princess Cleodolinda outwit Circe and her minions and trap them beneath a volcanic eruption.
Author(s):
J. W. Dunne
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream (1939)
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Ship that Flew (1939)
Peter buys a model ship from an antique store for “all the money he has in the world -- and a little bit more” and discovers it can carry its owners through space and time.
Author(s):
Hilda Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Nora Lavrin
Told Under the Magic Umbrella (1939)
An anthology of thirty-two fanciful stories.
Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Carol Ryrie Brink
Marjorie Flack
Lois Lenski
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Orton Jones
Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)
An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Happy Ever After (1940)
A Mary Poppins story which was later included in Mary Poppins Opens the Door.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
The Wind in the Willows (1940)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Wind in the Willows (1940)
While lacking four of the sixteen color illustrations in the Limited Editions Club version, this reprint includes pen and ink chapter heads not in the limited edition.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
A Squirrel Called Rufus (1941)
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
John Skeaping
The Crock of Gold (1942)
A fantasy about a philosopher, leprecauns, policemen and a crock of gold among others.
Author(s):
James Stephens
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
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
Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
First mate Bumps brings a remarkable monkey named Jasper home to England.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Magic Bed-Knob (1943)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Waldo Peirce
Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back (1943)
The two first volumes of the Mary Poppins stories in one. In this edition some of the illustrations are in color.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Agnes Sims
Out of the Silent Planet (1943)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
First Whisper of “The Wind in the Willows” (1944)
This book reprints the original letters written to his son by Kenneth Grahame that later became The Wind in the Willows.It also includes a new story Bertie’s Escapade.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
John Singer Sargent
Perelandra: A Novel (1944)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Little White Horse (1946)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges