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Helene Carter

(A. Helene Carter)

Author, Illustrator

(1887 - 1960)

Illustrator Helene Carter was born in 1887 in Toronto, Ontario. As a child she knew she wanted to be an artist and studied at the Ontario School of Art. She worked for an advertising agency, traveled twice to Italy, and moved to New York where she died in 1960.



Bibliography

First the Flower, then the Fruit (1943)

Facts and lore about our favorite fruits.

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

The Flight of the Heron (1930)

Ewen Cameron is out with the ’45 and encounters a British officer Keith Windham who becomes his best friend.

Author(s): D. K. Broster
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1930

Fruits of the Earth (1942)

An exploration of the origins and development of our favorite fruits.

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

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942

The Giant Nature Library (1952)

Six volumes from the First Book series in one, including: The First Book of Bees, The First Book of Birds, The First Book of Bugs, The First Book of Plants and The First Book of Trees.

Author(s): Albert B. Tibbets
Et al
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

The Gleam in the North (1931)

When the Jacobites call on Ewan Cameron’s honor, he must enter into the conspiracy again in this second installment of the Jacobite Trilogy that began with The Flight of the Heron.

Author(s): D. K. Broster
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1931

Grandmother’s Doll (1931)

Betty and her grandmother find Araminta, a Christmas doll of 1875, in the attic.

Author(s): Elizabeth Gladwin Bouton
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

The Gulf Stream (1945)

An introduction to the dynamics of the ocean currents in the north Atlantic.

Author(s): Ruth Brindze
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1945

Indian Harvest: Wild Food Plants of America (1945)

An exploration of the wild foods growing in North America.

Read online at archive.org. 

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

Kimbi, Indian of the Jungle (1941)

The life of a native in the south American jungle.

A Lad of Dundee (1935)

This entry in the Children of the World series describes child life in Scotland.

Natalia and Nikolai: Children of Russia (1928)

This book in the Children of the World tells the story of two Russian children.

The Omnibus Jules Verne (1931)

Includes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Blockade Runners and From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Peter Duck (1933)

The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint sail in search of treasure and must fight not only a hurricane but also pirates.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter
Arthur Ransome

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1933

Picture-Story Reading Lessons: Series I Dictionary (1926)

A set including My Story Book, Dictionary and teacher’s manual. There are two series.

Picture-Story Reading Lessons: Series I My Story Book (1926)

A set including My Story Book, Dictionary and teacher’s manual. There are two series.

Picture-Story Reading Lessons: Series II My Story Book (1926)

A set including My Story Book, Dictionary and teacher’s manual. There are two series.

Pierre Keeps Watch (1944)

A shepherd boy hides the village flocks from marauding Nazis.

Author(s): Maria Gleit
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

The Poet’s Craft (1935)

An anthology of favorite poems.

Read online at archive.org

Puppet Parade (1932)

A tour of Italian puppet shows.

Author(s): Carol Della Chiesa
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

Red Star in Samarkand (1929)

A boot licking paeon to the murderous communist takeover of Uzbekistan by one of the foremost American Communists.

Author(s): Anna Louise Strong
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter

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