Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
(1875 - 1961)
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children’s author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to the Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines, and published volumes of stories for children, methods of story telling and teaching children and other related subjects, which include Boys and Girls of Colonial Days (1917); Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (1919); Hero Stories (1919); and The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (1945). She wrote For the Children’s Hour (1906). In 1947, her book Miss Hickory won the Newbery Medal.
Bibliography
American Backgrounds (1958)
An anthology of early American stories for older children.
Carol Ryrie Brink
Holling C. Holling
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Carl Sandburg
Phil Stong
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Et al
Holling C. Holling
Joseph Low
Armstrong Sperry
Garth Williams
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 39 (1960)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Carolyn Haywood
Richard Holberg
Ruth L. Holberg
Phyllis Krasilovsky
Juniper Sage
Anna Sewell
Et al
Richard Scarry
Peter Spier
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
Read online at archive.org.
Roger Duvoisin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cornelia Meigs
Mabel L. Robinson
Various
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Henry C. Pitz
Howard Pyle
Keith Ward
Lynd Ward
Et al
Finnegan II: His Nine Lives (1953)
Finnie intends to have more than nine lives.
The Gunniwolf and other Merry Tales (1936)
A collection of stories by leading authors illustrated by Kate Seredy.
Helen Bannerman
Rose Fyleman
Hugh Lofting
Et al
Miss Hickory (1946)
Miss Hickory has a hickory nut for a head, but her body is an applewood twig.
Read online at archive.org.
The Shining Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1940)
An anthology of Christmas stories.
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Lois Lenski
Mabel L. Robinson
Elizabeth Yates
Et al
Stories of Early America (1958)
Stories and poems about early American history for younger children.
Read online at archive.org.
Esther Averill
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Et al
Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Ingri d’Aulaire
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Helen Sewell
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Yankee Yarns: Stories from the Northeastern States (1944)
A collection of short stories set in the northeast states. Includes ‘A Nantucket Picnic’ by Elizabeth Enright and ‘Ice on Horse-Killer’ by Stephen W. Meader.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Alice Dalgliesh
Elizabeth Enright
Stephen W. Meader
Cornelia Meigs
Mabel L. Robinson
Ruth Sawyer
Kate Seredy
Et al