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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
Odysseus: Sage of Greece (1931)
A retelling of the Odyssey.
Author(s):
Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
On a Summer Day (1953)
A poem and pictures of the joys of summer.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Once on Christmas (1938)
An old-time Christmas celebration.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Over the Big Hill: A Betsy-Tacy Story (1942)
Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in this series of adventures. Later editions are titled Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Papa Small (1951)
Through the week with the Small family.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Peanuts for Billy Ben (1952)
A farm family in Virginia raises peanuts.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Peep-Show Man (1924)
Three stories set on midsummer’s day, Hallowe’en, and Easter.
Author(s):
Pádraic Colum
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book (1936)
Phebe spends a year with her country cousins in Connecticut in the 1840’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Pinocchio (1946)
Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy.
Author(s):
Allen Chaffee
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Pleasure of Your Company: A Footnote to Friendship (1940)
An essay on friendship. Dust jacket by Lois Lenski.
Author(s):
Frances Lester Warner
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Policeman Small (1962)
Today Mr. Small is the cop on the beat.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Prairie School (1951)
A story of school children in South Dakota and how they ‘fought the winter through.’
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Project Boy (1954)
Young families live in former army barracks after World War II.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Prudence & Peter: Their Adventures with Pots and Pans (1928)
Two twins learn to cook.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Robins
Octavia Wilberforce
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Puritan Adventure (1944)
A story about the daily life of the Puritans in Massachusetts in the 1630’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Read-to-Me Storybook (1947)
An anthology of stories and poems for young children.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Kate Greenaway
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Miriam Clark Potter
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Rustam: Lion of Persia (1930)
A retelling of the Persian epic concerning the knight paladin Rustam from the Shahnameh or Book of Kings of Ferdowsi, written around 1000 A.D.
Author(s):
Alan Lake Chidsey
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
San Francisco Boy (1955)
A story about a family of Chinese Americans who live in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
A Scotch Circus: The Story of Tammas Who Rode the Dragon (1934)
A story about a circus.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Tom Powers
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Shining Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1940)
An anthology of Christmas stories.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Lois Lenski
Mabel L. Robinson
Elizabeth Yates
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Illustrator(s):
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