Elmer Hader
(1889 - 1973)
Elmer Stanley Hader (September 7, 1889 - September 7, 1973) and his wife Berta jointly illustrated more than 70 children’s books, about half of which they also wrote. They won the annual Caldecott Medal for The Big Snow (1948), recognizing the year’s “most distinguished American picture book for children”.
Bibliography
Mr. Peck’s Pets (1947)
Mr. Peck rescues animals in distress and adds them to his household.
Elmer Hader
The Old Woman and the Crooked Sixpence (1928)
An old woman asks some passers-by to help get her pig over the stile.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Perilous Night (1942)
A novel of the Revolutionary War.
Picture Book of Mother Goose (1994)
A collection of nursery rhymes, songs and games.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Picture Book of Travel (1928)
The story of how we get from here to there.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Play-Book of Words (1933)
A vocabulary-building book. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Elmer Hader
Quack-Quack: The Story of a Little Wild Duck (1961)
Quack-Quack loses his way while flying over the ocean, and a little girl helps him find his way back home.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
Rainbow’s End (1945)
Toby Tubbs, ship’s carpenter, and his cat Blackie are shipwrecked, and decide to settle down and build a house on the shore.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
Reading for Fun (1939)
An elementary school reader.
Elmer Hader
Dorothy Handsaker
Reindeer Trail (1959)
The story of how Laplanders brought their herds of tame reindeer to succor the natives of Alaska.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Runaways: A Tale of the Woodlands (1956)
The woodland animals move to new homes when the bulldozers arrive.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Skyrocket (1946)
Roger stows away for a trip around the world on the mail rocket.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Smiths and Rusty (1936)
A family has adventures with its cocker spaniel.
Elmer Hader
Snow in the City: A Winter’s Tale (1963)
Paul and Pamela enjoy winter in the big city.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
Sonny Elephant: A Jungle Tale (1930)
An Indian elephant goes to the edge of the forest to find out more about this creature, man.
Elmer Hader
Sonny Elephant: A Jungle Tale (1942)
This second edition has fewer pages and fewer illustrations to this story of an Indian elephant whose curiosity takes him to the edge of the forest to find out more about this creature, man.
Elmer Hader
Spunky: The Story of a Shetland Pony (1933)
Spunky leaves his home in the Shetland Islands to come to America where he works in a circus, then ends up giving rides to children in a park.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
Squirrely of Willow Hill (1950)
The squirrels have put away a goodly store of nuts for the winter, but they find a big banquet after a snow storm very acceptable.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
Stop, Look, Listen (1936)
How to be safe on your walk to and from school.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
The Story of Markets (1929)
A brief history of markets, from the town square to the New York Stock Exchange.