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Fiction - Short Story Genre

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Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:

Make Way for the Thruway (1961)

The road engineers change the route of the thruway so they don’t go through an old grandmother’s house.

Author(s): Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

My Nursery Tale Book (1961)

A collection of Scarry-illustrated tales including the classic Pierre Bear.... View More

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

A Noble Company (1961)

A grade school reader.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard
Owen Wood

Phil Stong’s Big Book (1961)

An omnibus containing Farm Boy, High Water and No-Sitch, the Hound. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Shooting Star (1961)

A meteoroid grounds in the polar sea and Tintin and his companions are off to claim it.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Hergé
Illustrator(s): Hergé

Fun and Fancy (1962)

An anthology of children’s literature.

Heroes in American Folklore (1962)

This is an omnibus that includes Casey Jones, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Steamboat Bill and Joe Magarac.

Author(s): Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Donald McKay

Hi, Tom (1962)

On his way home from school to his home on Hermit Mountain, Tom likes to call his name and hear the echo - then one day he hears some one else call his name. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Nanda Ward
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

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Horses and Their Friends (1962)

A collection of stories and poems about horses, dogs and cats.

Lazy Tinka (1962)

Tinka decides to play in the forest instead of helping her mother.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

The Light Princess (1962)

Due to her father the king’s neglect to invite her aunt to the christening, that spiteful witch comes anyway and curses the infant princess so that she loses her gravity. This calls for the aid of a handsome prince, and an unusually selfless on... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

The Little Knife Who Did all the Work: Twelve Tales of Magic (1962)

A collection of fairy tales which includes a story of Arthur and Merlin.

Author(s): Alison Uttley
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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