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Folk Tales Genre
Books in the Folk Tales genre:
A Book of Princess Stories (1927)
Seventeen princess stories.
Author(s):
Kathleen Adams
Frances Elizabeth Atchinson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Candle-Light Stories (1927)
A collection of traditional folk and fairy tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Veronica S. Hutchinson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Chicken Little and The Little Half Chick (1927)
The familiar story of Chicken-Little’s mission to tell the king the sky is falling, along with the story of how the cock got on the weather vane.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Fireside Stories (1927)
Fourteen well-loved folk and fairy stories.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Ugly Duckling (1927)
One of the duck’s new chicks is uncommonly ugly.
Author(s):
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Black Folk Tales (1928)
Thirteen Hausa folktales from Nigeria, retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry.
Author(s):
Erick Berry
Illustrator(s):
Erick Berry
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1928)
The fearful ride of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman has entered American folklore.
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Little Red Hen (1928)
The little red hen plants some wheat and invites her neighbors to help her grow the grain to make some bread … but they have better things to do until …
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Millions of Cats (1928)
The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence (1928)
An old woman asks some passers-by to help get her pig over the stile.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Story of the Three Bears (1928)
Three bears against one little girl.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Children’s Hour with The Three Bears and Other Stories (1929)
Includes The Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and Dick Whittington and His Cat.
Author(s):
Watty Piper
Illustrator(s):
Eulalie Minfred Banks
Lois Lenski
Rootabaga Country: Selections from Rootabaga Stories & Rootabaga Pigeons (1929)
A selection of stories from the first two volumes of Rootabaga Stories.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
Peggy Bacon
There Were Giants (1929)
An anthology of stories about giants.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Angus and the Ducks (1930)
When a very curious young terrier named Angus sees that the door is open, he decides to go exploring. Little does he know what neighbors await him!
Author(s):
Marjorie Flack
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack
Liang & Lo (1930)
Liang and Lo set out on the back of Lo’s water buffalo to slay the dragon.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Potato Face (1930)
A further collection of Rootabaga stories from the Potato Face Blind Man.
Author(s):
Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s):
None
Stories from the Arabian Nights (1932)
A selection of tales from the Arabian Nights.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Laurence Housman
Illustrator(s):
Edmund Dulac
Frank Schoonover
Sven the Wise and Svea the Kind (1932)
A collection of stories from Lappland.
Author(s):
Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Wanda Gag’s Story Book (1932)
This volume includes Millions of Cats, The Funny Thing and Snippy and Snappy.