Jeanne Hale

Adventures Here and There: Heroes on Land and Sea (1958)

A collection of stories and poems about adventure for older children.

Author(s): William Pène du Bois
Elizabeth Enright
Kenneth Grahame
John Masefield
Stephen W. Meader
Alfred Noyes
Mark Twain
Various
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Robert Lawson
Feodor Rojankovsky
Kate Seredy
Louis Slobodkin
Armstrong Sperry
Et al

American Backgrounds (1958)

An anthology of early American stories for older children.

Author(s): Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Carol Ryrie Brink
Holling C. Holling
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Carl Sandburg
Phil Stong
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Et al
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Holling C. Holling
Joseph Low
Armstrong Sperry
Garth Williams
Et al

Children Everywhere (1958)

A collection of stories and poems about children around the world for older readers.

Author(s): Eleanor Estes
Rachel Field
Robert Frost
Sterling North
Johanna Spyri
Et al
Illustrator(s): Maurice Sendak
Kate Seredy
Louis Slobodkin
Hilda van Stockum
Kurt Wiese
Et al

Fun and Fantasy (1958)

An anthology of imaginative stories and poems for older readers.

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Charles E. Carryl
Charles Finger
Rudyard Kipling
Robert McCloskey
Et al
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle
Louis Rhead
Feodor Rojankovsky
Ernest H. Shepard
Louis Slobodkin
Et al

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.

Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
Margaret Wise Brown
Kenneth Grahame
Maj Lindman
A. A. Milne
Et al
Illustrator(s): Richard Bennett
Marjorie Flack
Crockett Johnson
Maurice Sendak
Helen Sewell
Et al

Man and His World (1958)

Stories and poems about the natural world for older readers.

Author(s): Emily Dickinson
Rachel Field
Hamlin Garland
Rudyard Kipling
Carl Sandburg
Et al
Illustrator(s): Fritz Eichenberg
Ezra Jack Keats
Robert Lawson
Maurice Sendak
Kurt Wiese
Et al

Mostly Magic (1958)

A collection of traditional fairy tales, fables and nursery rhymes for younger children.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Edward Lear
Hugh Lofting
Beatrix Potter
Et al
Illustrator(s): Boris Artzybasheff
L. Leslie Brooke
Wanda Gág
Howard Pyle
Dr. Seuss
Et al

Stories of Early America (1958)

Stories and poems about early American history for younger children.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Esther Averill
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Et al
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Ingri d’Aulaire
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Helen Sewell
Kurt Wiese
Et al

Wide Wonderful World (1958)

An anthology of stories and poems about the world we live in for younger children.

Author(s): Mary Mapes Dodge
Helen Dean Fish
Ernest Seton Thompson
Louis Untermeyer
Jane Werner Watson
Et al
Illustrator(s): Helene Carter
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Maurice Sendak
Ernest H. Shepard
Kurt Wiese
Et al

Wonderful Things Happen (1958)

An anthology of adventure stories and poems for younger children.

Author(s): William Allingham
Carol Ryrie Brink
Walter de la Mare
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Robert Louis Stevenson
Et al
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop
Robert Lawson
Henry C. Pitz
E. Boyd Smith
Kurt Wiese
Et al