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Margery Williams Bianco

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(1881 - 1944)

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Margery Williams Bianco was an English-American author, primarily of popular children’s books. A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 publication of the classic that is her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit.



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Best In Children’s Books Volume 10A (1963)

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A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations. This revised edition substitutes an extract from Charlotte’s Web for Traveling the Underground Railroad.

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Author(s): James Baldwin
Margery Williams Bianco
Brothers Grimm
Joseph Jacobs
Eric Knight
E. B. White
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Illustrator(s): Ezra Jack Keats
Fritz Kredel
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Richard Scarry
Garth Williams
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 19A (1967)

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An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations. In this later edition, Flipper to the Rescue substitutes for Rip Van Winkle.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Charles E. Carryl
Eleanor Estes
Helen Dean Fish
Frances Clarke Sayers
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Illustrator(s): Paul Galdone
Robin Jacques
Grace Paull
Peter Spier
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 21 (1959)

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A collection of stories, poems and articles, many of which have new illustrations.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Brothers Grimm
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Et al
Illustrator(s): Barbara Cooney
Feodor Rojankovsky

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Best in Children’s Books Volume 26 (1959)

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A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.

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Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
James Baldwin
Margery Williams Bianco
Thornton W. Burgess
Beverly Cleary
Et al
Illustrator(s): Don Freeman
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
Et al

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Best in Children’s Books Volume 35 (1960)

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An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.

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Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Margery Williams Bianco
Beverly Cleary
Lydia Freeman
Gladys Schwarcz
Et al
Illustrator(s): Don Freeman
Maurice Sendak
Edward Shenton
Et al

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Best in Children’s Books Volume 6 (1958)

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A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.

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Author(s): James Baldwin
Margery Williams Bianco
Brothers Grimm
Rachel Field
Rudyard Kipling
Et al
Illustrator(s): Fritz Kredel
Grace Paull
Henry C. Pitz
Peter Spier
Leonard Weisgard
Et al

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Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 1 (1962)

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This collection includes nursery rhymes, folk tales, favorite poems and nearly two dozen pictures books in somewhat condensed form.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Claire Huchet Bishop
Margaret Wise Brown
Wanda Gág
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Louis Slobodkin
Et al
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Louis Slobodkin
Tasha Tudor
Et al

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Herbert’s Zoo and Other Lively Tales (1949)

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Five stories with new illustrations, including Elisabeth the Cow Ghost by Pène du Bois and Mister A and Mister P by Bianco.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Thornton W. Burgess
William Pène du Bois
Et al
Illustrator(s): Julian

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The House That Grew Smaller (1931)

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The story of a falling-down house that finds new life by growing smaller. Robert Lawson did the illustrations. The story appeared in St. Nicholas magazine, Volume LVIII, September 1931, page 764. The story falls short of the author's previous work The Velveteen Rabbit. When published in book form by The Macmillan Company in 1931 the illustrations were by Rachel Field. 

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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The Hurdy-Gurdy Man (1933)

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The Hurdy-Gurdy Man comes to town with his monkey and soon all the children have left school to hear his music. Before they know it the entire town is dancing until they can’t stand anymore and the day ends in a town picnic.

Written by the author of The Velveteen Rabbit. Robert Lawson did the pictures.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Other People’s Houses (1939)

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A young woman strikes out on her own in the big city.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

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Poor Cecco (1925)

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“The wonderful story of a wonderful wooden dog who was the jolliest toy in the house until he went out to explore the world.”

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Velveteen Rabbit (1983)

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The velveteen rabbit learns what it means to be real.

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Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

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