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Fiction - Short Story Genre
Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:
Carry On, Jeeves! (1927)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Chink a Woolly Coated Little Dog and Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted and Wild Animals at Home (1927)
Selected life-histories of four-footed friends.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Divots (1927)
Nine short stories about golf narrated by the Oldest Member.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Foam Razorback: His Life and Adventures and Other Stories (1927)
Three animal histories from Wild Animal Ways.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
John Martin’s Book Magazine (1927)
John Martin’s Book was a children’s magazine aimed at five- to eight-year-olds. Martin Gardner wrote that it was the “most entertaining magazine” aimed at this age group published in the U.S.
Meet Mr. Mulliner (1927)
Nine short stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner, he of the many nephews. These originally appeared in The Strand and Liberty magazines.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Merry-Go-Round of Modern Tales (1927)
Author(s):
Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Piano Movers (1927)
When the sergeant takes a shine to a piano, the batterymen are recruited to move it.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Pups and Pies (1927)
An omnibus edition containing That Pup, Mike Flannery, The Thin Santa Claus, The Water Goats and The Great American Pie Company.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Various
The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
The fourth collection of detective stories about a Catholic priest who is considered one of the high spots of detective fiction.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Blacksmith and the Blackbirds (1928)
The blacksmith forbids the blackbirds his garden. So they hire him to make them gardening tools so they can make their own garden.
Author(s):
Edith Rickert
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Boots of the Holly-Tree Inn (1928)
Harry and Norah elope to Gretna Green.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Carter’s Legacy (1928)
A short story extolling the virtues of thrift and the history of a bank. Published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Citizens Trust Company of Utica, New York.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Rudolph Tandler
City Stories: Told by Children as They Go Exploring New York (1928)
Stories and poems first graders told their teacher at the Lincoln School in New York City. There was also an edition in Russian.
Author(s):
Rebecca J. Coffin
Florence E. Matthews
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Dickey Byrd (1928)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Woodruff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Carl Emil Wehde
Everyday Canadian Primer (1928)
An early reader for Canadian schools.
Author(s):
Franklin T. Baker
Fannie Wyche Dunn
H. H. MacKenzie
Ashley H. Thorndike
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Golden Age (1928)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1928)
The fearful ride of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman has entered American folklore.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Lonesomest Doll (1928)
The story of a proud little queen and her beautiful, lonesome doll.
Author(s):
Abbie Farwell Brown
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham