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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Twenty-Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls (1921)

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A collection of traditional tales. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Anna Cogswell Tyler
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922)

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A collection of golf stories told by the Oldest Member. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Dream Days (1922)

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Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of reminiscences of childhood include his story The Reluctant Dragon. This is the second illustrated edition and was published only in Britain. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

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Everyday Classics: First Reader (1922)

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An elementary school reader -- includes some music. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Franklin T. Baker
Fannie Wyche Dunn
Ashley H. Thorndike
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Everyday Classics: Primer (1922)

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An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Franklin T. Baker
Fannie Wyche Dunn
Ashley H. Thorndike
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Five Little Friends (1922)

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Five school friends and their adventures in school and out. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): Sherred Willcox Adams
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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How the Five Rusty Rats Helped to Find a New Village (1922)

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This is the first periodical publication of part three of chapter 1 of Rootabaga Stories. The image above is online at freelibrary.... View More

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

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How to Break Away and Go to the Rootabaga Country (1922)

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This was the headline illustration for the first periodical publication of the first of the three stories in Chapter 1 of Part One of Rootabaga Stories. It appeared in volume 56, Issue 4 (September 1922) of The Designer and the Woman's Magazine, on p... View More

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

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)

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A collection of mystery short stories. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): W. Hatherell

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The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories (1922)

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A collection of mystery short stories. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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More Stories About the Potato Face Blind Man (1922)

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This is the first periodical publication of a story about the Potato Face Blind Man from Rootabaga Stories printed in The Designer and The Woman's Magazine, probably in January 1923. The image above is available online at freelibrary.... View More

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

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Mother Goose Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1922)

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A collection of nursery rhymes and stories.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Eulalie Minfred Banks
Elizabeth Colborne
Lois Lenski
Et al

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The Story of Jason Squiff and Why He Had a Popcorn Hat, Popcorn Mittens and Popcorn Shoes (1922)

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This is the first periodical publication of this story from Rootabaga Stories. The image is available online at freelibrary.... View More

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

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Two Friends and Their Supporting Investments (1922)

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A promotional give-away for a stock brokerage firm.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Tony Sarg

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The Cruise of the Little Dipper: And Other Fairy Tales (1923)

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A collection of new fairy tales. The author and illustrator were childhood friends. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Susanne K. Langer
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

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Everyday Classics: Second Reader (1923)

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An elementary school reader. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Franklin T. Baker
Mildred Leona Batchelder
Ashley H. Thorndike
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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The F-U-N Book (1923)

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An elementary school reader.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Mabel Guinnip La Rue
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

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Ghosts What Ain’t (1923)

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A humorous sermon on not letting our fears prevent us from acting. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Harold Cue

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The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

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A collection of Bertie and Jeeves short stories.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Jeeves (1923)

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A collection of short stories about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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