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
Mama Hattie’s Girl (1953)
A young African American girl experiences life in both the south, Florida, and the north, New York City in the 1950’s.
Manual for Teaching the Second Reader II (1958)
An elementary school reader. This volume include the teacher’s manual.
Odille Ousley
Tom Robinson
David H. Russell
Val Teal
Et al
A Merry-Go-Round of Modern Tales (1927)
A collection of stories designed to update traditional folk tales to the twentieth century.
Read online at archive.org.
More Mr. Small (1962)
An omnibus including The Little Auto, The Little Sail Boat and The Little Airplane.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah (1948)
The ark, the animals and the flood.
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A Name for Obed (1941)
Obed goes to live in Maine with his Aunt Sarah who opens a candy shop in the house they own.
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Now It’s Fall (1948)
A poem and pictures about the joys of fall.
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Ocean-Born Mary (1939)
A girl born on the voyage from Ireland to America grows up in New Hampshire in the 1700’s.
On a Summer Day (1953)
A poem and pictures of the joys of summer.
Read online at archive.org.
Papa Small (1951)
Through the week with the Small family.
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Peanuts for Billy Ben (1952)
A farm family in Virginia raises peanuts.
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book (1936)
Phebe spends a year with her country cousins in Connecticut in the 1840’s.
Pinocchio (1946)
Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy.
Carlo Collodi
Policeman Small (1962)
Today Mr. Small is the cop on the beat.
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Prairie School (1951)
A story of school children in South Dakota and how they ‘fought the winter through.’
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Project Boy (1954)
Young families live in former army barracks after World War II.
Puritan Adventure (1944)
A story about the daily life of the Puritans in Massachusetts in the 1630’s.
San Francisco Boy (1955)
A story about a family of Chinese Americans who live in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
A Scotch Circus: The Story of Tammas Who Rode the Dragon (1934)
A story about a circus.
Read online at archive.org.
Shoo-Fly Girl (1963)
A story about a six year old Amish girl and her family.