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Fiction - Short Story Genre
Books in the Fiction - Short Story genre:
Letters from My Windmill (1978)
A collection of tales by the French novelist set in his native Provence.
Author(s):
Alphonse Daudet
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Little Knife Who Did all the Work: Twelve Tales of Magic (1978)
A collection of fairy tales which includes a story of Arthur and Merlin.
Author(s):
Alison Uttley
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Nelebel’s Fairyland (1978)
Exiled from Burzee, a fairy builds a new land in California, in this tale originally published in a high school newspaper.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
None
Richard Scarry’s Stories to Color with Lowly Worm and Mr. Paint Pig (1978)
Eight favorite stories to read and color, including a Sherlock Holmes adventure.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Vintage Wodehouse (1978)
A wide-ranging collection of Wodehouse short stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Doctor’s Sweetheart and Other Stories (1979)
Fourteen short stories.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
None
Grimblegraw and the Wuthering Witch (1979)
The prince and princess seek the help of the Wuthering Witch to escape from the clutches of Giant Gimblegaw.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Glenys Ambrus
Motel of the Mysteries (1979)
A satirical look at American culture, and not incidentally, archeological research.
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
The Swoop! and Other Stories (1979)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Tintin in America (1979)
Tonweya and the Eagles and Other Lakota Tales (1979)
A collection of Native American myths and legends from oral tradition.
Author(s):
Rosebud Yellow Robe
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Winged Magic (1979)
A collection of folk tales and fairy tales about things that fly.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
John Patience
Domus Anguli Puensis (1980)
A Latin translation of The House at Pooh Corner.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Eighteen-Carat Kid and Other Stories (1980)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Honest Andrew (1980)
Andrew Otter makes some mistakes as he learns to be tactful.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Gloria Skurzynski
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Magic World (1980)
This is a collection of twelve short stories, most dealing with magic in one of its forms.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Gerald Spencer Pryse
Broomsticks and Beasticles (1981)
A collection of stories and poems about mythical beasts and other creatures.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
John Patience
The Patchwork Cat (1981)
Author(s):
William Mayne
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
Wodehouse on Crime (1981)
A collection of short stories involving crime.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Edgar Blakeney
Make Way for the Highway (1982)
The road engineers change the route of the highway to avoid taking down an old grandmother’s house.
Author(s):
Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely