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Myth Genre
Books in the Myth genre:
The Golden Wedge (1942)
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
Mythical Monsters (1942)
Author(s):
Powell Perry
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Superstitious? Here’s Why! (1954)
Common superstitions and how they originated.
Read online at achive.org.
Author(s):
Julie Forsyth Batchelor
Claudia de Lys
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Little Mermaid Who Could Not Sing (1956)
Sometimes having a voice like a foghorn is not such a bad thing!
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Old Greek Fairy Tales (1958)
A retelling of sixteen Greek myths.
Author(s):
Roger Lancelyn Green
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Martin’s Dinosaur (1959)
Martin’s education has been neglected and he doesn’t recognize a dragon when he sees one.
Author(s):
Reda Davis
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Stories of Strange Happenings (1959)
A collection of stories and poems about strange events. Includes Helpful Henry and The Left-Over Hat illustrated by Tibor Gergely.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Flavia Gág
Grace Paull
Kurt Wiese
Best in Children’s Books Volume 35 (1960)
Hero Tales From Many Lands (1961)
A collection of stories about the great heroes of mythology and history.
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Howard Pyle
Kate Seredy
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Laite
Mogo’s Flute (1966)
A young Kenyan boy discovers his flute can help him recover the respect of the villagers.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Robin Jacques
The Black Stallion’s Ghost (1969)
While between races at a Florida horse farm, Alex Ramsay and the Black meet the Ghost and her trainer and are caught up in a supernatural horror story.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
The Book of Wishes and Wishmaking (1971)
A listing of the many occasions on which to wish, like saving the tip of your cherry pie for last and making a wish on it.
Author(s):
Duncan Emrich
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Tales and Legends (1971)
Twenty-one classic tales from European literature from Gogmagog to Melusine.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jennifer Westwood
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Spin Straw to Gold (1974)
A collection of fairy tales and legends from around the world. This may be an abridged edition of North of Nowhere.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Victor Ambrus
Tales of the Greek Heroes (1979)
A collection of the most famous Greek hero tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Roger Lancelyn Green
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Betty Middleton-Sandford
Tonweya and the Eagles and Other Lakota Tales (1979)
A collection of Native American myths and legends from oral tradition.
Author(s):
Rosebud Yellow Robe
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Welsh Legends and Folk-Tales (1979)
A selection of tales from the Mabinogion.
Author(s):
Gwyn Jones
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Joan Kiddell-Monroe
A Companion to World Mythology (1980)
An exhaustive listing of the mythologies of diverse cultures.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Richard W. Barber
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Black Stallion Legend (1983)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Sanderson
How Dog Began (1985)
The author speculates on how the first wolf was tamed and became a dog.
Author(s):
Pauline Baynes
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes