Browse

Lois Lenski

Author, Illustrator

(1893 - 1974)

Lois Lenski was a popular and prolific American writer and illustrator of picture books and children’s and young-adult fiction.



Bibliography

Grandmother Tippytoe (1931)

A story book featuring Grandmother Tippytoe who lives in a quaint little house with her trouble-making parrot, and funny animal and furniture family.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Green-Faced Toad and Other Stories (1921)

A collection of fairy tales.

Author(s): Vera B. Birch
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Growing Up with America (1941)

A collection of short stories about growing up in America.

Read online at archive.org

A Hat-Tub Tale, or, On the Shores of the Bay of Fundy (1928)

Two unusual creatures live in a house on the shore of the Bay of Fundy.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Caroline Emerson
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

High-Rise Secret (1966)

Life for Peggy in a high-rise development is rather grim.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Houseboat Girl (1957)

Patsy spends the summer on a houseboat on the Mississippi River.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

I Like Winter (1950)

The joys of a northern winter.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

I Went for a Walk (1958)

Pictures, poems and songs.

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Ice Cream Is Good (1948)

An advertising piece for the National Dairy Council.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (1941)

The story of a twelve year old English girl who was captured by a raiding party of Shawnee Indians and French Canadians. Her family was killed and she spent the rest of her life living with the Delaware and later the Seneca tribes. Read online at arc... View More

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1942

Indigo Treasure (1941)

Growing indigo on a southern plantation.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Frances Rogers
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Jack and the Beanstalk (1922)

Jack sells his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans, and the rest is history.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Jack Horner’s Pie: A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1927)

A selection of nursery rhymes.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Johnny Goes to the Fair (1932)

Johnny takes his pig to the County Fair.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose (1932)

More Mother Goose rhymes.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Journey Into Childhood (1972)

The author was unhappy with this book as she thought the life had been edited out of it.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Judy’s Journey (1947)

The story of a family of migrant farm workers.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Let’s Play House (1944)

Molly, Polly and Peter play house.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

A Letter to Popsey (1938)

The Tooseys need some livestock for their new farm home so they write to their Popsey to bring them when he comes.

Author(s): Mabel Guinnip La Rue
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Sign up for our free book-of-the-week email!

Looking for updates from the Treasury of Great Children's books? Look no further, our Book-of-the-Week email is free and will keep you informed of the latest happenings!

Please fill out the form to subscribe:

* indicates required