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Folk Tales Genre
Books in the Folk Tales genre:
Mr. Fox (1982)
Mr. Fox goes hunting with his bag … but the bag ends up hunting him.
Author(s):
Gavin Bishop
Illustrator(s):
Gavin Bishop
The Black Stallion Legend (1983)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Sanderson
Little Red Riding Hood (1983)
A girl, a grandmother, a wolf and a woodcutter star in this well-known tale.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Trina Schart Hyman
Illustrator(s):
Trina Schart Hyman
Paul Bunyan (1984)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Annie and the Wild Animals (1985)
Chicken Little (1985)
Is the sky falling? Officer Foxy Loxy offers Chicken Little shelter in his truck.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Earth Gnome (1985)
The king promises the hand of a princess to the hero who rescues the missing maidens.
Author(s):
Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s):
Margot Tomes
How Dog Began (1985)
The author speculates on how the first wolf was tamed and became a dog.
Author(s):
Pauline Baynes
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind (1985)
When a tornado sweeps across the prairie, Iva Dunnit saves her family and home.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Carol Purdy
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Favorite Nursery Tales (1986)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Jump! The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (1986)
Some of the tales of B’rer Rabbit, newly illustrated by Barry Moser.
Author(s):
Joel Chandler Harris
Van Dyke Parks
Illustrator(s):
Barry Moser
Pecos Bill (1986)
Pecos Bill is the epic hero of the settling of the southwest.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Reluctant Dragon (1986)
This edition of The Reluctant Dragon includes a color illustration on the dust jacket. The story originally appeared in Kenneth Grahame’s Dream Days.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Twelve Days of Christmas (1986)
Jump Again! More Adventures of Brer Rabbit (1987)
Five more tales of that rascally rabbit and his friends and his enemies.
Author(s):
Joel Chandler Harris
Van Dyke Parks
Illustrator(s):
Barry Moser
More Tales of Uncle Remus (1987)
This is the second book of Uncle Remus tales in a modified dialect by the two collaborators.
Author(s):
Joel Chandler Harris
Julius Lester
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
The Tales of Uncle Remus (1987)
This is the first volume of Uncle Remus stories, retold in a more readable dialect, from these collaborators.
Author(s):
Joel Chandler Harris
Julius Lester
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Why the Chicken Crossed the Road (1987)
Not why, but what happened when the chicken crossed that road.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
Johnny Appleseed (1988)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
Bye Bye Baby (1989)
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg