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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

Lois Lenski’s Big, Big Book of Mr. Small (1985)

An omnibus that combines the two collections of The Big Book of Mr. Small and More Mr. Small.

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

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.

Read online at archive.org

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

The Makio 1915 (1915)

The Ohio State University yearbook for 1915. Lois Lenski was the art editor and contributed many sketches. Read online at Hathitrust.

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

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.

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

Manual for Teaching the Second Reader II (1958)

An elementary school reader. This volume include the teacher’s manual.

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

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

The Monkey that Would not Kill (1925)

Two stories about Tricky or Gum, a mischievous monkey who could not be killed --hanged, drowned, blown up -- but not killed.

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

Mother Goose Rhymes (1932)

A collection of nursery rhymes illustrated by different artists.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Eulalie Minfred Banks
Lois Lenski

Mother Goose Rhymes (1933)

A collection of nursery rhymes illustrated by different artists.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Eulalie Minfred Banks
Lois Lenski

Mother Goose Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1922)

A collection of nursery rhymes and stories.

Mother Makes Christmas (1940)

Sally and her mother make a Vermont Christmas out of nothing at all.

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

Mr. and Mrs. Noah (1948)

The ark, the animals and the flood.

Read online at archive.org

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

Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck (1930)

Those two peculiar creatures from the shores of the Bay of Fundy go adventuring in the Marie Celeste.

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

My Friend the Cow (1946)

A promotional booklet from the National Dairy Council.

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

My Own ABC Book (1922)

Multiple words and pictures for each letter of the alphabet.

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

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.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Ethel Calvert Phillips
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Now It’s Fall (1948)

A poem and pictures about the joys of fall.

Read online at archive.org

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

Ocean-Born Mary (1939)

A girl born on the voyage from Ireland to America grows up in New Hampshire in the 1700’s.

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

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