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Folk Tales Genre

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Books in the Folk Tales genre:

Ballad Makin’ in the Mountains of Kentucky (1939)

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Kentucky ballads, many with music.

Author(s): Walter Kob
Jean Thomas
Illustrator(s): Elmer Hader

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Cock-a-Doodle Doo (1939)

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In this case it’s a rooster raised by a duck in a familiar story.

Author(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s): Berta Hader
Elmer Hader

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1940
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The Happy Flute (1939)

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A Hindu tale of a hermit and the jungle animals.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Sant Ram Mandal
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

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Heroes, Outlaws and Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales (1939)

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Includes stories of Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, Pecos Bill and many others.

Author(s): Olive Beaupré Miller
Illustrator(s): Richard Bennett

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1939
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Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)

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An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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The comical tragedy or tragical comedy of Punch & Judy (1940)

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A selection from the traditional British commedia dell’arte.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
John Payne Collier
Illustrator(s): Leonard Weisgard

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Pecos Bill and Lightning (1940)

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Relates the lore of Pecos Bill from his childhood with coyotes to the loss of his almost-bride, Lightfoot Sue. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Leigh Peck
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

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Brer Rabbit: Stories from Uncle Remus (1941)

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Twenty-four famous tales of Br’er Rabbit, his friends and his enemies.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Joel Chandler Harris
Illustrator(s): Victor Dowling
A. B. Frost

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The Story of Simpson and Sampson (1941)

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Simpson and Sampson are twins. Simpson is always well behaved, Sampson, quite the other. Or is it the other way ’round? Another collaboration between the author and illustrator of Ferdinand.... View More

Author(s): Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Yankee Doodle’s Cousins (1941)

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A compilation of stories about American folk heroes.

Author(s): Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s): Robert McCloskey

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Bedtime Stories (1942)

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This collection includes Chicken Little, The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and The Gingerbread Man. The pictures are in color and black and white. Later editions have only three stories. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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The Cat That Walked by Himself (1942)

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How the cat made a bargain with the Woman, but still walks by himself.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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Don Coyote (1942)

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A collection of folk tales from the southwest.

Author(s): Leigh Peck
Illustrator(s): Virginia Lee Burton

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The Elephant’s Child and Other Just-So Stories (1942)

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An omnibus edition containing The Elephant’s Child, and How the Camel Got His Hump, and How the Leopard Got His Spots, and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942
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The Fast Sooner Hound (1942)

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’You couldn’t see a thing for steam, cinders and smoke’ and the ‘rails sang like a violin for half an hour’ after the Cannon Ball passed, but the fast Sooner hound left it in his dust. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Arna Bontemps
Jack Conroy
Illustrator(s): Virginia Lee Burton

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The Golden Wedge (1942)

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A collection of nine tales drawn from the indigenous people of South America.

Author(s): Delos W. Lovelace
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s): Charlotte Anne Chase

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How the Camel Got His Hump (1942)

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At the beginning, the camel refused to work for the first three days, so the Djinn gave him a hump, and now he can work three days without resting. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (1942)

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After the rhinoceros eats the parsee’s cake, the latter gets even and the rhinoceros gets his wrinkled skin.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

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The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book (1942)

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A collection of all-time favorite tales.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Katherine Gibson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

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First the Flower, then the Fruit (1943)

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Facts and lore about our favorite fruits.

Author(s): Jannette May Lucas
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

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