Kathryn Jackson
(1907 - 1985)
Kathryn Jackson was an author and editor. She wrote hundreds of stories for Golden Books.
More than fifty of those were co-authored with her husband Byron, including The Saggy Baggy Elephant, Pirates, Ships, and Sailors, and Tawny Scrawny Lion.
Bibliography
Let’s Go Fishing (1949)
An activity book with a fishing rod, hook, line and paper fish.
Kathryn Jackson
The Little Trapper (1950)
The little trapper gets trapped.
Kathryn Jackson
Little Yip-Yip and His Bark (1950)
A little dog has an annoying bark.
Kathryn Jackson
More Farmyard Tales (1970)
A collection of twenty-one stories about farm life.
Kathryn Jackson
Mouse’s House (1949)
Frisker and Whisker need a new house when the black kitten steals the sock they were living in. Beautifully flocked pages add to the fun of this early Scarry title.
A later reprint does not have the flocking but read online at archive.org.
Kathryn Jackson
The New Golden Almanac (1952)
Calendars and stories for the whole year.
Kathryn Jackson
The Party Pig (1954)
Pig is giving a party -- but what has he done with the cake?
Kathryn Jackson
Picture Stamps for the Very Young (1953)
A stamp book with forty-eight stamps and forty-eight pages.
Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1950)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions had only twenty-six or twenty-four. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Kathryn Jackson
Richard Scarry’s A Story a Day: 366 Original Stories and Poems (1998)
A reprint of this early collection of stories and poems.
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Richard Scarry’s Best House Ever (1989)
After a long hunt, Frisker and Whisker find the perfect house for a mouse.
Kathryn Jackson
Richard Scarry’s Best Stories Ever (1971)
An anthology of Richard Scarry’s books for Golden Press.
Kathryn Jackson
Patricia Scarry
Richard Scarry
Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever (1968)
This is a large omnibus selected from Richard Scarry’s books for Golden Press.
Read online at archive.org.
Ole Risom
Patricia Scarry
Richard Scarry
Rob Whitlock: A Pioneer Boy in Old Ohio (1951)
Day-to-day frontier life in Ohio.
Kathryn Jackson
The Saggy Baggy Elephant (1947)
Twitted by a parrot about his looks, the baby elephant is unhappy until he meets some beautiful creatures just like himself. As with most of the early Little Golden Books, the later editions were much shortened.
Read online at archive.org. This is a later abridged version.
Kathryn Jackson
Sleepy Time Tales (1964)
An anthology including Tawny Scrawny Lion, Mister Dog and Brave Cowboy Bill.
Kathryn Jackson
Gustaf Tenggren
Garth Williams
Springtime Tales (1967)
Seventy-nine short stories. A collection of previously published material likely from 1955.
Kathryn Jackson
Storytime Tales (1950)
A collection of sixty-seven favorite stories, poems and songs. There is also an early edition with forty-two selections.
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Lois Lenski
Carl Sandburg
Val Teal
Et al
Summer Tales (1967)
A collection of seasonal short stories.
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.
Kathryn Jackson