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Frank Schoonover
(1877 - 1972)
Frank Earle Schoonover was an American illustrator who worked in Wilmington, Delaware.
Bibliography
Life on the Mississippi (1927)
Mark Twain’s account of his time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Walter Stewart
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1928)
This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
John Rae
Frank Schoonover
The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea (1922)
In this episode in the Leatherstocking Tales, Natty Bumpo finds himself in love. The action is nonstop as the protagonists travel through hostile territory during the French and Indian War.
Author(s):
James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Robinson Crusoe (1921)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
Frederick Alfred Rhead
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales (1900)
A collection of short stories. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
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Stories from the Arabian Nights (1932)
A selection of tales from the Arabian Nights.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Laurence Housman
Illustrator(s):
Edmund Dulac
Frank Schoonover
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1933)
This is the Brandywine edition. It includes the stories of Lancelot, Sir Tristram and Sir Percival. There is also a library edition in blue cloth, without the paste on label.
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Frank Schoonover
Swatty: A Story of Real Boys (1920)
A story of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi in Muscatine, Iowa. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
W. B. King
Frank Schoonover
The Swiss Family Robinson (1921)
A family is shipwrecked on a tropical island and proceed to make a new life for themselves. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Isabelle de Montolieu
Johann David Wyss
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Tales from Shakespeare (1918)
A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Tom Brown’s School Days (1911)
One of the first English boarding school stories set at Rugby and written by an ‘old boy.’ The black and white illustrations are by Rhead, the color by Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Treasure Island (1921)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
The White Company (1927)
Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
Yankee Ships in Pirate Waters (1931)
A series of adventures, some true, others fictional, of American merchantmen and their encounters with pirates around the world.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rupert Sargent Holland
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover