Lois Lenski
(1893 - 1974)
Lois Lenski was a popular and prolific American writer and illustrator of picture books and children’s and young-adult fiction.
Bibliography
Ice Cream Is Good (1948)
An advertising piece for the National Dairy Council.
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.
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1922)
Jack sells his mother’s cow for a handful of magic beans, and the rest is history.
Jack Horner’s Pie: A Book of Nursery Rhymes (1927)
A selection of nursery rhymes.
Johnny Goes to the Fair (1932)
Johnny takes his pig to the County Fair.
Journey Into Childhood (1972)
The author was unhappy with this book as she thought the life had been edited out of it.
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Let’s Play House (1944)
Molly, Polly and Peter play house.
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.
Little Baby Ann (1935)
Follows baby Ann through her first year.
The Little Engine that Could (1930)
The Little Blue Engine thought she could, and she did.
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The Little Family (1932)
Introducing the Little family.
The Little Farm (1942)
Farmer Small has chores to do from morn ‘til night.
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The Little Fire Engine (1946)
Mr. Small is a fireman today.
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A Little Girl of Nineteen Hundred (1928)
A story of village life at the turn of the twentieth century based on the author’s own childhood.
Little Sioux Girl (1958)
Life on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas.
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The Little Train (1940)
Today Mr. Small is an engineer on the freight from Tiny Town to the big city.
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Living With Others (1952)
A collection of stories and poems about getting along with other people.
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Lois Lenski: Friend of Children (1958)
A brief review of the work of Lois Lenski put out by her publishers.
Lois Lenski’s Big Book of Mr. Small (1962)
An omnibus containing Policeman Small, Cowboy Small and The Little Farm.
Lois Lenski’s Christmas Stories (1968)
Several Christmas stories from the author’s previously-published books, along with two new stories, poems and a play.
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