Charles Finger
(Charles J. Finger)
(1869 - 1941)
Charles Joseph Finger (December 25, 1869 – January 7, 1941) was a British author.
He was born in Willesden, England and attended King’s College London. He traveled extensively as a young man, visiting North America, South America, and Africa. He eventually settled in the United States, in the Ozarks, Arkansas.
He became the acting editor of the Reedy’s Mirror after William Marion Reedy’s death in 1920.
His book Tales from Silver Lands (1924) won the 1925 Newbery Medal. The book is a collection of stories from Central and South America. Some of Finger’s other works include Bushrangers (1924), Tales Worth Telling (1927), Courageous Companions (1929), and A Dog at His Heel (1936).
Bibliography
Children of America (1939)
Sixteen stories about American children.
Cornelia Meigs
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Lois Lenski
Leonard Weisgard
Kurt Wiese
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The Children’s Hour Volume 8 (1953)
A collection of myth, legend and folktale.
Read online at archive.org.
Charles Finger
Joel Chandler Harris
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Howard Pyle
Hilda van Stockum
Various
A. B. Frost
Robert McCloskey
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Henry C. Pitz
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Courageous Companions (1929)
The story of an English lad who sails with Magellan around the world.
Fun and Fantasy (1958)
An anthology of imaginative stories and poems for older readers.
Charles E. Carryl
Charles Finger
Rudyard Kipling
Robert McCloskey
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Louis Rhead
Feodor Rojankovsky
Ernest H. Shepard
Louis Slobodkin
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Give a Man a Horse (1939)
Story of two young men riding through South America.
Story Parade Red Book (1937)
A collection of 39 stories for boys and girls by noted authors, and with numerous illustrations.
Margaret Wise Brown
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Charles Finger
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Lois Lenski
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Henry C. Pitz
Kate Seredy
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