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Far East Genre
Books in the Far East genre:
Great Kipling Stories Together with a Life of Rudyard Kipling (1936)
A selection of Rudyard Kipling’s greatest short stories and poems.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Hurricane (1936)
The story of a hurricane that strikes a south Pacific island.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Tilio: A Boy of Papua (1937)
The story of a young boy in Papua New Guinea who is forced into servitude but eventually finds his freedom.
Author(s):
Rudolf Vorrhoeve
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Five Chinese Brothers (1938)
Author(s):
Claire Huchet Bishop
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Tales of Poindi (1938)
A retelling of native folk tales and legends from New Caledonia.
Author(s):
Jean Mariotti
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
With Love and Irony (1940)
American and Chinese cultural humor book.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Yutang Lin
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Missee Lee (1941)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Missee Lee (1942)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
Sonny Elephant: A Jungle Tale (1942)
This second edition has fewer pages and fewer illustrations to this story of an Indian elephant whose curiosity takes him to the edge of the forest to find out more about this creature, man.
Author(s):
Madge A. Bigham
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Adventures of Monkey (1943)
The roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
Author(s):
Arthur Waley
Ch’eng-en Wu
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Peter the Great (1943)
A biography of the Russian Tsar who built St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea as his new capital.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Big Green Umbrella (1944)
One day the big green umbrella sets out to see the world and travels to China and back.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Boat Children of Canton (1944)
Author(s):
Marion B. Ward
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
You Can Write Chinese (1945)
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Li Lun: Lad of Courage (1947)
Author(s):
Carolyn Treffinger
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Dike Against the Sea (1948)
An exciting adventure, with two Chinese children, that teaches about life in China and about the values of Christian missions.
Author(s):
Mary Brewster Hollister
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Fish in the Air (1948)
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Little Black Sambo (1948)
The classic story of a little Indian boy who turns the tables on a tiger who wants to eat him for breakfast. Later editions are much shortened.
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1949)
Open sesame opens the treasure cave to Ali, but the thieves will try to recover their ill-gotten gains.
Author(s):
E. Powys Mathers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Legacy (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown