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Folk Tales Genre
Books in the Folk Tales genre:
Homer Price (1943)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Told on the King’s Highway (1943)
In imitation of Chaucer, here are sixteen tales originating in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century.
Author(s):
Eleanore Myers Jewett
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1944)
The complete Grimm translated by Margaret Hunt.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Josef Scharl
The Tall Book of Nursery Tales (1944)
A collection of classic nursery tales.
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
A Treasury of American Folklore (1944)
A copious and comprehensive compendium of American folk tales.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
None
Yankee Thunder: The Legendary Life of Davy Crockett (1944)
Born on a mountain top, he fell at the defense of the Alamo.
Author(s):
Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
John Henry and the Double-Jointed Steam Drill (1945)
The story of a steel-driving man.
Author(s):
Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1945)
Author(s):
Becky Reyher
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Arabian Nights (1946)
Tales selected from The Thousand Nights and a Night.
The Great White Hills of New Hampshire (1946)
A regional memoir by a war correspondent about New Hampshire in the early twentieth century.
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories (1946)
Author(s):
May Hill Arbuthnot
Ludwig Bemelmans
William S. Gray
Illustrator(s):
Anne Fleur
Why the Bear Has a Short Tail and Other Stories (1946)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Anne Fleur
Legends of Paul Bunyan (1947)
Paul Bunyan and Babe his great blue ox led the havesting of America's virgin forests, from Maine to Oregon.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Once in the Year: A Christmas Story (1947)
Peter goes out on Christmas Eve to see the flowering of the forest and hear the farm animals talking in the byre.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Rogue Reynard (1947)
The trickster fox defeats his enemies.
Author(s):
Andre Norton
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Author(s):
Grace Castagnetta
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Stone Soup (1947)
Three soldiers arrive at a town intending to make soup with a stone. In the end the whole town enjoys a feast with them.
Author(s):
Marcia J. Brown
Illustrator(s):
Marcia J. Brown
Three Tall Tales (1947)
Three tall tales about lazy animals and their owners.
Author(s):
Elena Eleska
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Golden Book of Nursery Tales (1948)
A collection of favorite nursery tales.
Author(s):
Elsa Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Joe Magarac and His USA Citizenship Papers (1948)
Immigrant Joe Magarac makes plentiful steel for the USA.
Author(s):
Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty