Helen Sewell
(1896 - 1957)
Helen Sewell was a children’s book illustrator and author. She won a 1955 Caldecott Honor for The Thanksgiving Story and illustrated several Newbery Honor novels. Some of her papers were donated to the University of Minnesota.
Bibliography
Building a House in Sweden (1931)
An illustrated look at how they build houses in Sweden.
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and move Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shanty.
Helen Sewell
The Children’s Hour Volume 1 (1953)
A large collection of classic picture books.
Read online at archive.org.
William Pène du Bois
Hardie Gramatky
Wanda Gág
Phyllis McGinley
A. A. Milne
H. A. Rey
Dr. Seuss
Various
Elizabeth Orton Jones
Helen Sewell
Ernest H. Shepard
Nora S. Unwin
Et al
Chloe Marr (1946)
A young woman’s life in London on stage and in the world of publishing.
Christmas Magic (1944)
Come spend Christmas Eve in a toy shop with Santa.
The Christmas Tree in the Woods (1932)
Based on a true story from Wiscasset, Maine.
Cinderella (1934)
Cinderella’s godmother makes it possible for her to attend the prince’s ball, but she loses her glass slipper.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 5 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in America.
Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Rachel Field
Robert McCloskey
Keith Robertson
Sydney Taylor
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Et al
Robert McCloskey
Helen Sewell
Louis Slobodkin
Garth Williams
Et al
The Colonel’s Squad (1952)
A fictional account of an American Army Colonel who brings five Russian orphans home with him to America.
The Cruise of the Little Dipper (1963)
A collection of original fairy tales. The author and illustrator were childhood friends.
Read online at archive.org.
The Cruise of the Little Dipper: And Other Fairy Tales (1923)
A collection of new fairy tales. The author and illustrator were childhood friends. Read online at Internet Archive.
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932)
A selection of poems by a famous Black American poet.
The Fair American (1940)
Sally’s Aunt Deborah is now married to Andrew’s father Captain Patterson. They all go on a voyage on the Fair American. In France they take on a cabin boy, Pierre.
Read online at archive.org.
Farmer Boy (1933)
The story of Almanzo Wilder growing up with his brother Royal and his two sisters on a big farm in New York state.
A First Bible (1934)
Selections from the King James version.
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Andrew Patterson, a ship captain’s son from Boston comes to live with Sally and her aunt.
Read online at archive.org.
The Golden Christmas Manger (1948)
A creche with cut out figures and a book containing the Christmas story.
Good Times Together (1958)
Includes Willie’s Pocket by Margaret Wise Brown with illustrations by Crockett Johnson reproduced in color. An anthology for younger children about people around the world.
Margaret Wise Brown
Kenneth Grahame
Maj Lindman
A. A. Milne
Et al
Marjorie Flack
Crockett Johnson
Maurice Sendak
Helen Sewell
Et al
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1936)
Hans and his sister must help keep the family going while their father is ill.
Helen Sewell
A Head for Happy (1931)
Letty makes a doll out of a pillow, but what to do for a head? So the three sisters set out to travel the world to find Happy a head.
Read online at archive.org.