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Garth Williams

Author, Illustrator

(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

I Married Them (1945)

A doctor's young wife finds herself absorbed into the bedlam of her uproarious in-laws.

Author(s): Janet Van Duyn
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

In Our Town (1946)

A series of vignettes about everyday townspeople.

Author(s): Damon Runyon
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

J. B.’s Harmonica (1993)

JB’s father plays the harmonica and so does he. Or should he?

Author(s): John Sebastian
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

King Emmett the Second (1991)

Emmett loses his pet pig and decides to get another pet.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Mary Stolz
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1951)

When a mouse family finds a helpless, homeless, newborn kitten, they decide to adopt him, name him Mickey, and raise him as one of their own. They don't tell him that he's actually a cat.

Author(s): Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1954)

The Miggs family of mice find a baby kitten in their nest and decide to adopt him.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Songbook (1968)

Now you can sing along with the Ingalls family through the Little House Books.

Read online at archive.org

Little Fur Family (1946)

The little fur child explores his world.

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Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Little Fur Family (1991)

The little fur child explores his world. This larger format version does not have the fur cover.

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Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Little Giant Girl and the Elf Boy (1963)

A little giant girl goes to pick a bush for the dinner table and meets a tiny elf boy.

Author(s): Else Holmelund Minarik
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Little House Cookbook (1979)

Now you can eat the same dishes Ma served to Pa, Laura and her sisters.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Barbara M. Walker
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Little House Diary (1985)

A day-by-day planner or diary for fans of the Little House series.

Little House in the Big Woods (1953)

In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with Pa and Ma, Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin near Lake Pepin.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1932

Little House on the Prairie (1953)

In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Little Leopard and His Fat Stomach (1948)

The father leopard gets his nose slapped by the porcupine’s tail, but the little leopard finds a nice bone, with the meat still on it.

Author(s): Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Little Silver House (1959)

New folks are coming to live in the old boarded up house Nancy and her friends have been interested in.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Jennie D. Lindquist
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Little Squirrel’s Santa Claus (1949)

Alfred Squirrel leaves Santa a treat, and Santa leaves him his own Santa hat.

Author(s): Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Little Town on the Prairie (1953)

In the seventh book of her biographical series, Laura is living with Ma, Pa, Mary, Carrie and Grace in De Smet and earns her teaching certificate.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Long Winter (1953)

The Indians predict a hard winter so Pa moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to his store building in town.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Look Out, Baby Bears, Here He Comes! (1948)

The mother and father bears are just resting from their long winter sleep, but the twin baby bears want to play.

Author(s): Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

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