Robert Lawson
(Robert (Rob, Robin) Ripley Lawson)
(1892 - 1957)
Robert Lawson was an American author and illustrator. He is considered one of the finest creators of children’s books of his time. Lawson was the first to receive both of the top two American prizes in this field: the Caldecott Medal for They Were Strong and Good (1940), and the Newbery Medal for Rabbit Hill (1945).
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Smeller Martin (1950)
Davey Martin is known to his friends as Smeller because of his keen sense of smell. He puts this gift to good use in this story of a summer of adventure.
Spaceships & Spells (1987)
A previously unpublished short fantasy by Robert Lawson, entitled The Silver Leopard, is included in this anthology. It is not a very good story, resembling some of the Lapplandish tales.
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The Story of Ferdinand (1936)
Ferdinand liked to sit just quietly under the cork tree and smell the flowers, but the five men in funny hats want to take him to Madrid to fight in the bull fights.
Read online at archive.org.
The Story of Jesus for Young People (1937)
A somewhat unorthodox retelling of the New Testament from a liberal Protestant (Episcopalian) viewpoint. Robert Lawson’s illustrations are worth seeing.
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The Story of Simpson and Sampson (1941)
Simpson and Sampson are twins. Simpson is always well behaved, Sampson, quite the other. Or is it the other way ’round? Another collaboration between the author and illustrator of Ferdinand.
The Sword in the Stone (1939)
This is the story of King Arthur’s boyhood with his foster father Sir Ector and his foster brother Kay. Merlin the magician is his tutor who sometimes gets confused as he is living time backwards.
The author was an expert on medieval chivalry. Robert Lawson supplied the endpapers.
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Swords and Statues (1937)
This is the story of how Carlo Brunelli becomes a goldsmith in Italy in the 1500’s.
The blue cloth binding is the trade edition. The Junior Literary Guild edition is slightly taller and has an orange cloth binding.
A Tale of Two Cities (1938)
A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
Read online at archive.org.
They Were Strong and Good (1940)
Robert Lawson tells the story of his parents and grandparents, and illustrates it too.
The Tough Winter (1954)
The hard winter that Uncle Analdas, the old rabbit, prophesies comes to pass in more ways than one for Little Georgie and the other animals of Rabbit Hill when the Folks go away and leave a neglectful caretaker with a mean dog in charge. This is the story of how they ‘fought the winter through.’
The Junior Literary Guild edition is in a library binding.
Read online at Internet Archive.
The Treasure of the Isle of Mist (1934)
Fiona and the Urchin set out on a treasure hunt. The Urchin is looking for the doubloons lost by the wreck of the Spanish Armada. Fiona is searching for the Treasure of the Isle of Mist. Robert Lawson did the pictures.
Tunes and Harmonies (1936)
A songbook for the elementary grades, this volume is illustrated by both N. C. Wyeth and Robert Lawson.
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Under the Tent of the Sky (1937)
This is a collection of poems about animals, large and small.
The Unicorn with Silver Shoes (1932)
Ballor’s Son tires of life at the court of the King his father and crosses over into the the Land of the Ever Young where he learns to shoe horses, kelpies and unicorns under the tutelage of the Pooka.
Read online at archive.org.
Watchwords of Liberty (1943)
Robert Lawson puts famous quotations from American history in their context and illuminates them with his illustrations.
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Watchwords of Liberty New Edition (1957)
A collection of quotations from famous personages in American history.
For this new edition, the author has revised the pledge and the first two paragraphs of the foreword.
The final quotation is now from John Philpot Curran - Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty - instead of FDR's - The Heart of This Nation Is Sound, to reflect the ebbing of wartime passions.
The paper is a little thinner and the binding cloth is more washable. The dust jacket is unchanged.
Read online at archive.org.
Wee Gillis (1938)
This is the story of how Wee Gillis decides whether to live in the Scottish lowlands like his mother’s family or in the highlands like his father’s people.
This is the second book by the author and illustrator of Ferdinand.
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The Wee Men of Ballywooden (1930)
Arthur Mason was an Irish sailor and gold prospector. He learned about the Wee Men from his mother when he was a boy growing up in Ireland. In this first book he tells of the Night of the Big Wind and how the Wee Men recovered their bagpipes from the rascally jackdaw.
This was Robert Lawson’s second published book which first brought his detailed and fantastic black and white illustrations to a wide audience.
The Wee Men of Ballywooden (1937)
Arthur Mason was an Irish sailor and gold prospector. He learned about the Wee Men from his mother when he was a boy growing up in Ireland.
In this first book he tells of the Night of the Big Wind and how the Wee Men recovered their bagpipes from the rascally jackdaw.
This was Robert Lawson’s second published book which first brought his detailed and fantastic black and white illustrations to a wide audience.
The Wee Men of Ballywooden (1952)
Arthur Mason was an Irish sailor and gold prospector. He learned about the Wee Men from his mother when he was a boy growing up in Ireland. In this first book he tells of the Night of the Big Wind and how the Wee Men recovered their bagpipes from the rascally jackdaw.
This was Robert Lawson’s second published book which first brought his detailed and fantastic black and white illustrations to a wide audience.