Logging you in...
Garth Williams
(1912 - 1996)
Garth Montgomery Williams was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children’s books. Many of the books he illustrated have become classics of American children’s literature.
Bibliography
Bread and Butter Journey (1970)
Barbara and her mother, guided by her fifteen year old brother set out to cross the mountains in post-Revolutionary War America to join her father in western Pennsylvania.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anne Colver
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
A Brother for the Orphelines (1959)
When Josine finds a baby boy in the bread basket, the orphelines do not want to give him up to the boys’ orphanage.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1953)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Grace and Carrie to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shack.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Charlotte’s Web (1952)
Fern adopts the runt of the litter and names him Wilbur, but it is Charlotte, A. Cavatica, who ensures he will always have a home on the Arable farm.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Charlotte’s Web (1999)
Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Rosemary Wells
Garth Williams
Chester Cricket’s New Home (1983)
When his stump is destroyed by an overweight picnicker, Chester Cricket begins an odyssey to find a new one, with some help from his friends.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride (1981)
Chester Cricket goes sightseeing one night with his friend Lulu Pigeon. Richard Egielski painted the book jacket.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Richard Egielski
Garth Williams
The Chicken Book (1946)
A new rendition of an old counting rhyme.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 5 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in America.
The Cowboy Kitten (1949)
Theodore kitten pays a visit to his grandmother, but grandfather really understands him.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Cricket in Times Square (1960)
The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Do You Know What I’ll Do? (1958)
A little girl tells her baby brother what she will do to make him happy.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charlotte Zolotow
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Door Opens (1945)
The author records childhood memories of growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Author(s):
Ernst Lothar
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Easter Bunny (1949)
Thomas rabbit collects Easter eggs.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Eastward in Eden: A Story (1945)
A child is kidnapped and later rescued.
Author(s):
Claude Silve
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Emmett’s Pig (1959)
Emmett has plenty of porcelain pigs, but what he wants for his birthday is a real pig.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mary Stolz
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Every Month was May (1947)
A book of reminisences by a Canadian author.
Author(s):
Evelyn Eaton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Family Under the Bridge (1958)
A homeless man meets a family of three children, their mother and their dog camping on his spot under a bridge over the Seine and ends up adopting them all.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Farm Tales (2007)
A collection of nine classic Little Golden Books.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
Gustaf Tenggren
Garth Williams
Et al
Farmer Boy (1953)
This is the story of Almanzo Wilder and his brother Royal growing up with their two sisters on a big farm in New York state.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams