L. Leslie Brooke
(1862 - 1940)
Leonard Leslie Brooke was a British artist and writer.
His skillful and witty illustrations in Andrew Lang’s Nursery Rhyme Book (1897) established his reputation as a leading children’s book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors.
Bibliography
Leslie Brooke’s Children’s Books: First Series (1904)
Includes The Story of the Three Little Pigs and Tom Thumb.
Leslie Brooke’s Children’s Books: Second Series (1905)
Contains The Golden Goose and The Story of the Three Bears.
Brothers Grimm
The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories (1890)
A collection of fairy tales including the story of a princess who loses her gravity. Read online at archive.org.
Little Bo-Peep: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (1922)
Seven nursery rhymes. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
The Little Girl from Next Door, etc. (1896)
Phil Raymond takes pity on the orphan girl next door and smuggles her off to the seaside in a hamper, where she makes a discovery that alters her life.
A Little Handful (1900)
Story of a six year old boy who will get his own way.
Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies (1910)
A collection of short stories about the residents of an English hamlet, including the village atheist, a shepherd and the minister’s wife, formerly on the stage. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies (1923)
Second edition with additional illustrations of this collection of stories and essays about the inhabitants of a small English village, include Snarley Bob and the saintly atheist shoemaker. The scan is of the first edition. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
The Man in the Moon: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (1913)
Five nursery rhymes.
The Man in the Moon: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (1913)
Five nursery rhymes.
Marian: or The Abbey Grange (1892)
When their father dies without a will, the Somerville family is forced from their home by rascally Cousin James.
Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little Children (1893)
Mary is four and cannot remember how old she was when she learned to read. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Miss Mouse and Her Boys: A Story for Girls (1897)
An only girl of nine is introduced to five boy cousins. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.
Moonbeams and Brownies (1894)
More new fairy tales.
Mostly Magic (1958)
A collection of traditional fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes for younger children.
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Edward Lear
Hugh Lofting
Beatrix Potter
Et al
L. Leslie Brooke
Wanda Gág
Howard Pyle
Dr. Seuss
Et al
My New Home (1894)
Orphaned Helena has a very happy childhood with her Grandmamma. Read for free online at Internet Archive and at Project Gutenberg.
The Nonsense Poems of Edward Lear (1991)
All the longer nonsense poems.
Nonsense Songs (1900)
This omnibus contains The Pelican Chorus and Other Verses and The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Nurse Heatherdale’s Story (1891)
Young Martha Heatherdale goes as nurse to a large family of children after her fiancee dies, and remains more than forty years. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897)
A collection of traditional nursery rhymes. Read for free online at Internet Archive.