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American Genre
Books in the American genre:
The Confessions of a Daddy (1907)
A hymn to fatherhood, and motherhood. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Fanny Y. Cory
Good-Night (1907)
The story of Padre Alonzo, his Mexican parrot, Loretta and a yellow canary named Tony. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Eleanor Gates
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Great American Pie Company (1907)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Frederic Dorr Steele
A Horse’s Tale (1907)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock
Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph’ Hewlitt Book Agent (1907)
Tells of the adventures of a traveling bookseller. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
The Ministry of David Baldwin (1907)
A young man begins his career as a Protestant minister. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Thomas Colestock
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
My Life as an Indian (1907)
Author(s):
James Willard Schultz
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Nimrod’s Wife (1907)
Author(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Walter King Stone
Ozma of Oz (1907)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
Policeman Bluejay (1907)
A full-length tale about Twinkle and her friend Chubbins and their visit to the land of the birds. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Maginel Wright Enright
Baum’s American Fairy Tales (1908)
This new edition includes three additional tales, for a total of fifteen plus a new suite of illustrations.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
George F. Kerr
The Cheerful Smugglers (1908)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
The Children’s Longfellow (1908)
This is a much larger selection of Longfellow’s work Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Children’s Own Longfellow (1908)
This version contains only eight poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
The Ruby of Kishmoor (1908)
Jonathan Rugg is set on a quest to recover the famous gem, looted by a pirate from an eastern queen. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Runaways and Castaways (1908)
A selection of stories of adventure from well known authors. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
The Story of Little Black Sambo (1908)
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s):
John R. Neill
That Pup (1908)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
F. Strothmann
The Biography of a Silver Fox (1909)
The life story of a silver fox and the humans who met him. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson
Ernest Thompson Seton
Boy Life (1909)
Author(s):
William Dean Howells
Illustrator(s):
Henry François Farny
Florence Scovel Shinn