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Folk Tales Genre
Books in the Folk Tales genre:
Java Jungle Tales (1933)
Folk tales from the Indonesian island of Java.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Hendrik De Leeuw
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Ola and Blakken (1933)
Ola and his family shoot a troll-cock, resulting in goods for themselves, a feast for their neighbors, and the deaths of two trolls.
Author(s):
Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Ingri d’Aulaire
Illustrator(s):
Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Fairies and Friendly Folk (1934)
A collection of folk songs for the piano. The illustrator is credited as Virginia Lee Demetrios.
Author(s):
Mary Bacon Mason
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1934)
The story of the piper who was not paid and took his revenge on the children of the town.
Author(s):
Robert Browning
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Crystal Locket (1935)
Nine new folktales that center around the adventures of the crystal locket.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Nellie M. Rowe
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Gone Is Gone: The Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework (1935)
A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1935)
A collection of stories, old and new and poems for very young children. This reprint had several different covers, and was also available in a box.
Author(s):
Ada M. Skinner
Eleanor L. Skinner
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Albanian Wonder Tales (1936)
A collection of folk tales from Albania.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Post Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Gunniwolf and other Merry Tales (1936)
A collection of stories by leading authors illustrated by Kate Seredy.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Helen Bannerman
Rose Fyleman
Hugh Lofting
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Their Weight in Wildcats (1936)
A collection of tales about the heroes of the American frontier taken from original sources, including Mike Fink, Daniel Boone and John Henry.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Treasure Book of Favorite Tales (1936)
A collection of thirty-six stories. Includes Little Folks of Other Lands, fairy tales and fables.
Author(s):
Watty Piper
Illustrator(s):
Eulalie Minfred Banks
Elizabeth Colborne
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Lois Lenski
Et al
Great Historic Animals: Mainly About Wolves (1937)
Mainly About Wolves is the English edition title for this book about animals known to history or legend.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
I Hear America Singing (1937)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Mainly About Wolves (1937)
Stories about animals known to history and legend.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
With Cap and Bells (1937)
Sixteen humorous tales.
Author(s):
Mary Gould Davis
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Carnival Time at Strobeck (1938)
An attractive descriptive story of a festival time.
Author(s):
May V. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Five Chinese Brothers (1938)
Author(s):
Claire Huchet Bishop
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Tales of Poindi (1938)
A retelling of native folk tales and legends from New Caledonia.
Author(s):
Jean Mariotti
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Very Stupid Folk (1938)
A Finnish version of The Peterkin Papers, based on folk tales.
Author(s):
Toivo David Rosvall
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Yinka-Tu the Yak (1938)
The story of a Tibetan boy named Sifan and an orphaned Yak his father gave him named Yinka-Tu.
Author(s):
Alice Alison Lide
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese