Helene Carter
(A. Helene Carter)
(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
Ruth Visits Margot, A Little French Girl (1934)
Just after the end of World War I, an American girl visits France.
Read online at archive.org.
Sharp Ears, the Baby Whale (1938)
The story of a baby whale.
Smoky and Pinocchio (1940)
The adventures of Pinocchio the puppet and Smoky the cat.
The Story of Our Calendar (1949)
How our calendar came to be.
Read online at archive.org.
Swallowdale (1932)
The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore.
Swallowdale (1932)
The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore.
Swallows and Amazons (1931)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Read online at archive.org.
The Three of Salu: Around the Year in Northern Italy (1923)
This volume in the Children of the World series focuses on three children in Northern Italy.
Twenty Little Pets from Everywhere (1943)
A selection of exotic pets.
Two Little Misogynists (1922)
A book based on the author’s childhood.
Water, Water Everywhere! (1953)
Basic information about water and our world.
Wayside Flowers: Poems of the Out-of-Doors (1931)
A selection of Wordsworth’s poetry on the out-of-doors.
Where Did Your Garden Grow? (1939)
A guide to the flowers of the world which have found a place in our gardens.
Wide Wonderful World (1958)
An anthology of stories and poems about the world we live in for younger children.
Helen Dean Fish
Ernest Seton Thompson
Louis Untermeyer
Jane Werner Watson
Et al
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Maurice Sendak
Ernest H. Shepard
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Winter Holiday (1934)
Dick and Dorothea are spending the winter holidays by the lake where they meet the Swallows and Amazons. Thanks to Nancy’s mumps their vacation is extended as the lake freezes over.
Arthur Ransome