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Ernest H. Shepard

Author, Illustrator, Editor, Compiler

(1879 - 1976)

Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his illustrations of anthropomorphic characters in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.



Bibliography

The Great Cham (1933)

An even shorter Johnson.

Author(s): James Boswell
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1961)

Thirty-two favorite tales from the Danish master.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Hither and Thither (1927)

Only the line drawing on the cover is by Shepard.

The Holly Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1926)

Four short tales by Dickens including The Holly-tree, The Seven Poor Travellers, The Poor Relation’s Story, and The Haunted House.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

This is the second book about Pooh and Christopher Robin and their friends. The cover is from the first trade edition. There were several special limited editions as well.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The House at Pooh Corner (1950)

The second book of stories about Christopher Robin and Pooh Bear and their friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. This is the newly reset edition.

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The House at Pooh Corner (1974)

Ten stories about Pooh, Christopher Robin and their friends. For this edition E. H. Shepard has colored the illustrations.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Islanders (1956)

“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the second English edition and first American edition with illustrations by Ernest Shepard.

Author(s): Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The King’s Breakfast (1925)

A poem from When We Were Very Young set to music, with an additional poem explaining about the cow.

Read online at archive.org

Let’s Pretend (1927)

A book of poems for children.

Author(s): Georgette Agnew
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Little One’s Log (1927)

A baby book.

Author(s): Eva Violet Isaacs Erleigh
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Livestock in Barracks (1929)

A collection of humorous sketches about army life in World War I, originally published in Punch.

Author(s): Anthony Armstrong
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Luck of Chervil (1907)

A tale of the Wars of the Roses.

Author(s): H. Elrington
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Mary in the Country (1955)

A young town girl moves to the country with her family.

Author(s): Golden Gorse
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Modern Struwwelpeter (1935)

An updating of the classic German satire, these sketches were first published in Punch.

Author(s): Jan Struther
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Mr. Punch’s County Songs (1928)

A collection of verses of a humorous nature on the counties of England. The pieces originally appeared in Punch.

Author(s): E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

My Dearest Mouse (1988)

The original letters Kenneth Grahame wrote to his son Alastair are reproduced with transcriptions and additional editorial matter.

A Noble Company (1961)

A grade school reader.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard
Owen Wood

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