Self-Illustrated Writings

• The King of Wreck Island, Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. 
• The Kellyhorns, Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. 
• Captain Pottle’s House, Farrar, 1943. 
• (Adapter) Chaucer, Geoffrey, Chanticleer and the Fox, Crowell, 1958. 
• The Little Juggler: Adapted from an Old French Legend, Hastings House, 1961, new edition, 1982. 
• (Adapter) The Courtship, Merry Marriage, and Feast of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren: To Which Is Added the Doleful Death of Cock Robin, Scribner, 1965. 
• (Adapter) Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, Snow White and Rose Red, Delcaorte, 1966. 
• Christmas, Crowell, 1967. 
• (Editor) A Little Prayer, Hastings House, 1967. 
• A Garland of Games and Other Diversions: An Alphabet Book, Holt, 1969. 
• Miss Rumphius, Viking, 1982. 
• (Reteller) Grimm, J., Little Brother and Little Sister, Doubleday, 1982. 
• Island Boy, Viking, 1988. 
• Hattie and the Wild Waves, Viking, 1990. 
• Eleanor, Viking, 1996. 

Children’s Books Illustrated

• Malmberg, Bertil, Ake and His World, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. 
• Frost, Frances M., Uncle Snowball, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940. 
• Seidling, Oskar and Rypins, Senta, Green Wagons, Houghton, 1943. 
• Molloy, Anne, Shooting Star Farm, Houghton, 1946. 
• Crawford, Phyllis, The Blot: Little City Cat, Holt, 1946. 
• Hartwell, Nancy, Shoestring Theater, Holt, 1947. 
• Bein, L. L., Just Plain Maggie, Harcourt, 1948. 
• Kingman, Lee, The Rocky Summer, Houghton, 1948. 
• Seeger, Ruth Crawford, American Folk Songs for Children in Home, School and Nursery School: A Book for Children, Parents and Teachers, Doubleday, 1948, Linnet, 1993. 
• Child Study Association of America, Read Me Another Story, Crowell, 1949. 
• Montgomery, Rutherford George, Kildee House, Doubleday, 1949, Walker, 1994. 
• Kingman, Lee, The Best Christmas, Doubleday, 1949, reprinted, Peter Smith, 1985. 
• Krasilovsky, Phyllis, The Man Who Didn’t Wash His Dishes, Doubleday, 1950. 
• Seeger, Ruth Crawford, Animal Folk Songs for Children: Traditional American Songs, Doubleday, 1950. 
• Leonard, Nellie M., Graymouse Family, Crowell, 1950. 
• Child  Study Association of America, Read Me More Stories, Crowell, 1951. 
• Montgomery, Rutherford George, Hill Ranch, Doubleday, 1951. 
• Lansing, Elisabeth C., The Pony That Ran Away, Crowell, 1951. 
• Kingman, Lee, Quarry Adventure, Doubleday, 1951, published in England as Lauri’s Surprising Summer, Constable, 1957. 
• Lansing, Elisabeth C., The Pony That Kept a Secret, Crowell, 1952. 
• Aldrich, Mary M., Too Many Pets, Macmillan, 1952. 
• Brown, Margaret Wise, Where Have You Been?, Crowell, 1952, reprinted, Scholastic Book Services, 1966. 
• Reynolds, Barbara, Pepper, Scribner, 1952. 
• Mason, Miriam E., Yours with Love, Kate, Houghton, 1952. 
• Brown, Margaret Wise, Christmas in the Barn, Crowell, 1952. 
• Marshall, Catherine, Let’s Keep Christmas, Whittlesey House, 1953. 
• Seeger, Ruth Crawford, American Folk Songs for Christmas, Doubleday, 1953 
• Leonard, Nellie M., Grandfather Whiskers,  M.D.: A Graymouse Story, Crowell, 1953. 
• Kingman, Lee, Peter’s Long Walk, Doubleday, 1953. 
• Lansing, Elisabeth C., A Pony Worth His Salt, Crowell, 1953. 
• Quigg, Jane, Fun for Freddie, Oxford University Press, 1953. 
• Sidney, Margaret, The Five Little Peppers, Doubleday, 1954. 
• Brown, Margaret Wise, The Little Fir Tree, Crowell, 1954, reissued, 1985. 
• Otto, Margaret G., Pumpkin, Ginger, and Spice, Holt, 1954. 
• Kay, Helen (pseudonym of Helen C. Goldfrank), Snow Birthday, Farrar, Straus, 1955. 
• Alcott, Louisa May, Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, Crowell, 1955. 
• Kent, Louise A., The Brookline Trunk, Houghton, 1955. 
• McEwen, Catherine S., Away We Go! One-Hundred Poems for the Very Young, Crowell, 1956. 
• Marshall, Catherine, Friends with God: Stories and Prayers of the Marshall Family, Whittlesey House, 1956. 
• Kay, H., City Springtime, Hastings House, 1957. 
• Anderson, Neil (pseudonym of Jerrold Beim), Freckle Face, Crowell, 1957. 
• Buckmaster, Henrietta, Lucy and Loki, Scribner, 1958. 
• Behn, Harry, Timmy’s Search, Seabury, 1958. 
• Otto, Margaret G., Little Brown Horse, Knopg, 1959. 
• Speare, Elizabeth George, Seasonal Verses Gathered by Elizabeth George Speare from the Connecticut Almanack for the Year of the Christian Era, 1773, American Library Association, 1959. 
• Le Hibou et la Poussiquette (French adaptation of the Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear), translated by Francis Steegmuller, Little Brown, 1962. 
• Mare, Walter de la, Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, Knopf, 1961. 
• Webster, Noah, The American Speller: An Adaptation of Noah Webster;s Blud-Backed Speller, Crowell, 1961. 
• Otto Margaret G., Three Little Dachshunds, Holt, 1963. 
• Jewett, Sarah Orne, A White Heron: A Story of Maine, Crowell, 1962. 
• Haviland, Virginia, Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Spain, Little, Brown, 1963. 
• Papillot, Clignot, et Dodo (French adaptation of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field), translated by F. Steegmuller and Norbert Guterman, Farrar, Straus, 1964. 
• Lather, Hugh, translator, Mother Goose in French, Crowell, 1964. 
• Molloy, Anne, Shaun and the Boat: An Irish Story, Hastings House, 1965. 
• Goodsell, Katie’s Magic Glasses, Houghton, 1965. 
• Morse, Samuel, All in a Suitcase, Little, Brown, 1966. 
• Huxley, Aldous, Crowns of Pearblossom, Random House, 1967. 
• Reid, Alastair and Kerrigan, Anthony, Mother Goose in Spanish, Crowell, 1968. 
• Lear Edward, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Little, Brown, 1969. 
• Belting, Natalia M., Christmas Folk, Holt, 1969. 
• Field, Eugene, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Hastings House, 1970. 
• Wise, William, The Lazy Young Duke of Dundee, Rand McNally, 1970. 
• Homer, Dionysus and the Pirates: Homeric Hymn Number 7, translated and adapted by Penelope Proddow, Doubleday, 1970. 
• Salten, Felix (pseudonym of Siegmund Salzman), Bambi: A Life in the Woods, Simon & Schuster, 1970. 
• Book of Princesses, Scholastic Book Services, 1971. 
• Homer, Hermes, Lord of Robbers: Homeric Hymn Number Four, translated and adapted by Penelope Proddow, Doubleday, 1971. 
• Homer, Demeter and Persephone: Homeric Hymn Number Two, translated and adapted by Penelope Proddow, Doubleday, 1972. 
• Becker, John, Seven Little Rabbits, Walker, 1972. 
• Garelick, May, Down to the Beach, Four Winds, 1973. 
• Supraner, Robyn, Would You Rather Be a Tiger?, Houghton, 1973. 
• Harris, Dorothy Joan, The House Mouse, Warne, 1973. 
• Preston, Edna Mitchell, Squawk to the Moon, Little Goose, Viking, 1974. 
• Olsen, Zora L., Herman the Great, Scholastic Book Services, 1974. 
• Horwitz, Elinor L., When the Sky Is Like Lace, Lippincott, 1975. 
• Colby, Jean Poindexter, Lexington and Concord, 1775: What Really Happened, Hastings House, 1975. 
• Preston, Edna Mitchell, The Sad Story of the Little Bluebird and the Hungry Cat, Four Winds, 1975. 
• Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman, Burton and Dudley, Holiday House, 1975. 
• Craig, M. Jean, The Donkey Prince, Doubleday, 1977. 
• Fisher, Aileen, Plant Magic, Bowmar, 1977. 
• Greene, Ellin, compiler, Midsummer Magic: A Garland of Stories, Charms, and Recipes, Lothrop, 1977. 
• Hall, Donald, Ox-Cart Man, Viking, 1979. 
• Schwartz, Delmore, I Am Cherry Alive, the Little Girl Sang, Harper, 1979. 
• Farber, Norma, How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem, Walker, 1980. 
• Kesselman, Wendy Ann, Emma, Doubleday, 1980. 
• Griego Margot C. And others, selectors and translators, Tortillitas para Mama and Other Nursery Rhymes: Spanish and English, Holt, 1982. 
• Bierhorst, John, translator, Spirit Child: A Story of the Nativity, Morrow, 1984. 
• Godden, Rumer, The Story of Holly and Ivy, Viking, 1985. 
• Prokofiev, Sergei, Peter and the Wolf: A Mechanical Book, Viking, 1985. 
• Gerez, Toni de, reteller, Louhi, Witch of North Farm, Viking, 1986. 
• Horwitz, When the Sky Is Like Lace, Lippincott, 1987. 
• Houston, Gloria, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Tale, Dial, 1988. 
• McLerran, Alice, Roxaboxen, Lothrop, 1991. 
• Bedard, Michael, Emily, Doubleday, 1992. 
• Yolen, Jane, Letting Swift River Go, Little, Brown, 1992. 
• Sawyer, Ruth, The Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler’s Sons, Viking, 1994. 
• Whiteley, Opal, Only Opal: The Diary of a Young Girl, selected and adapted by Jane Boulton, Philomel, 1994.
• Ray, Mary Lyn, Basket Moon, Little Brown, 1999. 

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