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Fiction - Short Story Genre
Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:
Story Parade Treasure Book (1946)
A collection of stories and poems from Story Parade magazine.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Chesley Kahmann
Laura E. Richards
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Armstrong Sperry
Kurt Wiese
Et al
The Taxi that Hurried (1946)
Author(s):
Irma Simonton Black
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Jessie Stanton
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Tortilla Girl (1946)
Lupe wants a long-haired dog of her own.
Author(s):
May F. McElravy
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon
When it Rained Cats and Dogs (1946)
On a magical day, cats and kittens, dogs and puppies rain down on waiting children.
Author(s):
Nancy Byrd Turner
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Why the Bear Has a Short Tail and Other Stories (1946)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Anne Fleur
The Wolf, A Story for Children (1946)
When the family is snowed in, a wolf brings the doctor.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Kathleen Cooper
An Angel in the Woods (1947)
A toy angel’s candle brings the good news of Christmas to the animals of the wood.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Baby Roo (1947)
A sailor finds a lost baby kangaroo and takes her home as a pet.
Author(s):
Laura Bannon
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon
Christopher Robin’s Old Sailor and Other Selections from A.A. Milne (1947)
Stories and poems from the Winnie-the-Pooh corpus.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Dreaming and Daring (1947)
A selection of short stories including an extract from Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Marguerite Klinke Scott
Earthworms through the Ages: The Wisdom of Alexander Botts (1947)
These entries in the Botts saga take him from 1932 to 1947.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Joe Krush
Literature, A Series of Anthologies: Book Six (1947)
An anthology intended for high school seniors.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Maple Tree (1947)
A collection of short stories for adults.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
None
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1947)
The widow of a retired pirate keeps open house for the children of the neighborhood and supplies their mothers with magical cures for the children’s bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Once in the Year: A Christmas Story (1947)
Peter goes out on Christmas Eve to see the flowering of the forest and hear the farm animals talking in the byre.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Oxford Illustrated Dickens (1947)
This edition in twenty-one volumes has been frequently reprinted.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hablot K. Browne
George Cruikshank
Et al
Read-to-Me Storybook (1947)
An anthology of stories and poems for young children.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Kate Greenaway
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Miriam Clark Potter
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Toller Reports (1947)
A collection of sketches from Punch about an inefficient subaltern in WWII, illustrated by various official war artists.
Author(s):
Jeremy Taylor
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Et al
Charles Dickens Birthday Book (1948)
A compilation from the works of Dickens by a descendant.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Golden Book of Nursery Tales (1948)
A collection of favorite nursery tales.
Author(s):
Elsa Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely