Elizabeth Coatsworth
(1893 - 1986)
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (May 31, 1893 – August 31, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults. She won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association award recognizing The Cat Who Went to Heaven as the previous year’s “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.”
In 1968 she was a highly commended runner-up for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s writers.
Bibliography
Adventure Stories from Story Parade (1950)
A collection of stories from Story Parade magazine.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Elizabeth Janet Gray
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Elizabeth Orton Jones
Henry C. Pitz
Kurt Wiese
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Animal Story Parade (1951)
A collection of stories from Story Parade magazine.
Read online at archive.org.
Antonio Joaquin Robles Soler
Various
Feodor Rojankovsky
Kurt Wiese
Away Goes Sally (1934)
In this first book about Sally she journeys from Massachusetts to Maine over the snow in a house on runners.
Read online at archive.org.
Best in Children’s Books Volume 24 (1959)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Carolyn Haywood
Joseph Jacobs
Rudyard Kipling
James Whitcomb Riley
Et al
Irene Haas
Edward Shenton
Leonard Weisgard
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 34 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Brothers Grimm
Charles E. Carryl
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Rose Fyleman
Marguerite Henry
Gladys Schwarcz
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Robin Jacques
Manning De V. Lee
Leonard Weisgard
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The Big Green Umbrella (1944)
One day the big green umbrella sets out to see the world and travels to China and back.
The Children Come Running (1960)
A collection of UNICEF greeting cards, some by famous illustrators.
Ludwig Bemelmans
Roger Duvoisin
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The Children’s Hour Volume 11 (1953)
A collection of stories about the pioneers in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
James Daugherty
Esther Forbes
Mark Twain
Various
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Keith Ward
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The Children’s Hour Volume 7 (1953)
A collection of mysteries, classic and contemporary.
Read online at archive.org.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
O. Henry
Robert McCloskey
Howard Pease
Edgar Allen Poe
Various
Robert McCloskey
Henry C. Pitz
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Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 5 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in America.
Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Rachel Field
Robert McCloskey
Keith Robertson
Sydney Taylor
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Et al
Robert McCloskey
Helen Sewell
Louis Slobodkin
Garth Williams
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The Fair American (1940)
Sally’s Aunt Deborah is now married to Andrew’s father Captain Patterson. They all go on a voyage on the Fair American. In France they take on a cabin boy, Pierre.
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Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Andrew Patterson, a ship captain’s son from Boston comes to live with Sally and her aunt.
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The Giant Golden Book of Cat Stories (1953)
A collection of thirty-five stories and poems about cats.
The Giant Golden Book of Dog Stories (1953)
Thirty-one original stories and poems about dogs.
The Giant Golden Book of Dogs, Cats and Horses (1957)
Sixty-one stories and poems about dogs, cats and horses.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Golden Horseshoe (1936)
Tamar is a half English and half Indian girl who accompanies her father and brother while disguised as the Indian Raccoon on an expedition to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains in colonial Virginia.
Horse Stories (1954)
Stories and poems about horses.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Horses and Their Friends (1962)
A collection of stories and poems about horses, dogs and cats.
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Knock at the Door (1931)
Stephen is half mortal and half fairy and must choose his inheritance.
Mice are Nice (1990)
An anthology of poems about mice.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Edward Lear
A. A. Milne
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
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