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Folk Tales Genre
Books in the Folk Tales genre:
Little Black Sambo (1948)
The classic story of a little Indian boy who turns the tables on a tiger who wants to eat him for breakfast. Later editions are much shortened.
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Robin Hood (1948)
This version of the Robin Hood legends was first published in 1912.
Author(s):
Henry Gilbert
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
American Folklore and Its Old World Backgrounds (1949)
Two articles on folktales, reprinted from Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia.
Author(s):
Carl Carmer
Mary Gould Davis
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Blue Fairy Book (1949)
Fairy tales from France and Germany, Scotland and England and Scandinavia. Drawn from the Brothers Grimm, Madame d’Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and Norway and more.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Ben Kutcher
Following Folktales Around the World (1949)
One of two articles from Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia.
Author(s):
Mary Gould Davis
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Oldebus (1949)
Author(s):
Miguel de Cervantes
Powell Perry
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Lawrence Josset
Tom Kerr
The Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950)
The Robin Hood legends as interpreted by a young Rosemary Sutcliff.
Author(s):
Rosemary Sutcliff
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The King and the Noble Blacksmith (1950)
The young king has a counselor for everything, except for fishing. When the blacksmith recovers his lost crown the king decides to make him the counselor of counselors, and the counselor for fishing.
Author(s):
Jacob Blanck
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
A Bird in the Hand: Sayings From Poor Richard’s Almanac (1951)
Author(s):
Benjamin Franklin
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies (1951)
A collection of stories and poems about fairies, elves and goblins.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
A Long Way to Frisco (1951)
A nineteenth century pig drive on the west coast.
Author(s):
Alfred Powers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1951)
Two tales, one of the layabout who slept for twenty years and the other of the pumpkin-headed night rider on Halloween.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Children’s Hour Volume 2 (1953)
The Gingerbread Man (1953)
The Gingerbread Man runs as fast as he can -- but can he outrun the fox?
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Nancy Nolte
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)
How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.
Author(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Journey Cake, Ho! (1953)
Author(s):
Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Wolf and the Kids (1953)
Two Norwegian folk tales in which the goats outwit the trolls and the wolves.
Author(s):
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
A Treasury of French Tales (1953)
Selections from a larger collection of French folk and fairy tales collected in the Auvergne.
Author(s):
Henri Pourrat
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Wolf and the Kids (1953)
Two stories starring goats who triumph over a troll and a wicked wolf.
Author(s):
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Golden Goose (1954)
The goose lays golden eggs, but don’t get greedy!
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren