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Fiction - Short Story Genre
Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)
A baker’s dozen of the Master’s best, including Ukridge and Bingo Little among others.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets (1940)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Following New Trails (1940)
An elementary school reader.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Earnest Horn
Ruth M. Moscrip
Isabelle MacDonald Porter
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Frontiers Old and New (1940)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Cornelia Meigs
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Neil O’Keefe
Nicholas Riley
Fun with Polly Parrot (1940)
An elementary school reader.
Author(s):
Earnest Horn
Rose Wickey
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
A Hundred Tuftys (1940)
Tufty the bear and his friends, Aphrodite the rag doll, Tinkle the lamb, George the giraffe, and Fuzz-Wuzz the baby duck, get their pictures taken.
Author(s):
Jean Lilly
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Kersti and Saint Nicholas (1940)
The adventures of the smallest of seven sisters ends on St. Nicholas Eve with a ride on his white horse.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Picnic Adventures (1940)
A collection of short stories on the theme of picnics. Includes ‘A Nantucket Picnic’ by Elizabeth Enright.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
The Shining Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1940)
An anthology of Christmas stories.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Lois Lenski
Mabel L. Robinson
Elizabeth Yates
Et al
Illustrator(s):
None
Smoky and Pinocchio (1940)
The adventures of Pinocchio the puppet and Smoky the cat.
Author(s):
Helene Carter
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Story Parade Silver Book (1940)
A collection of stories and poems from Story Parade magazine.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Rutherford Montgomery
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Henry C. Pitz
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Tell Me a Story (1940)
A collection of stories in both long and short versions with hints on how to tell them.
Author(s):
Dorothy Canfield
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Trail and Campfire Stories (1940)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Julia M. Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Wodehouse on Golf (1940)
This collection includes Golf without Tears, Divots, ‘The Medicine Girl’ from The Crime Wave at Blandings and three stories from Young Men in Spats.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Herbert F. Roese
All Aboard for Storyland (1941)
This is an elementary school reader with great color illustrations by Elizabeth Enright.
Author(s):
Helen Heffernan
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Et al
The Colt from Moon Mountain (1941)
Joey and Cynthy befriend the littlest colt they ever saw.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Growing Up with America (1941)
A collection of short stories about growing up in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Dorothy Canfield
Eugene Field
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Et al
A Handy Dickens (1941)
A potpourri of Dickens extracts.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Sails Set for Treasure Land (1941)
An elementary school reader with great color illustrations by Elizabeth Enright.
Author(s):
Helen Heffernan
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Et al
Story Parade Gold Book (1941)
A collection of stories and poems from Story Parade Magazine.
Author(s):
Caroline Emerson
Ruth Sawyer
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Lois Lenski
Robert McCloskey
Et al