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James Daugherty

Author, Illustrator, Editor, Compiler

(1889 - 1974)

James Henry Daugherty was an American modernist painter, muralist, children’s book author, and illustrator. He was married to author Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty.



Bibliography

Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1928)

Here we have Lincoln’s babyhood and boyhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek, his games and chores.

Author(s): Carl Sandburg
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Abraham Lincoln (1943)

A biography of the president for young readers.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1944

Abraham Lincoln Quarterly Volume II (1943)

Includes an article “On the Lincoln Trail” by James Daugherty, beginning on page 312. Four of the illustrations from Abraham Lincoln are also reproduced.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Et al
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Adventures of Johnny Appleseed (1930)

John Chapman—better known as Johnny Appleseed—had wilderness adventures that became larger-than-life legends. Pioneering west from Massachusetts after the American Revolution, John cleared land and planted orchards for the settlers who fo... View More

Author(s): Henry Chapin
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Adventures of Johnny T. Bear (1926)

Johnny T. Bear is a bad bear. He runs away from his toy shop, but is almost caught by the little old lady and forced to stay in her toy shop.

Author(s): Margaret J. McElroy
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1932)

In the 1840s a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

All Things New (1936)

A story of sixteen year old Masha Oblanoff and her family of Russian immigrants making their way in New York.

Author(s): Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Almanac for Americans (1941)

For each day of the year the important, and not so important, events of American history are given. Several updated editions were published.

Author(s): Willis Thornton
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

American Folklore and Its Old World Backgrounds (1949)

Two articles on folktales, reprinted from Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia.

Author(s): Carl Carmer
Mary Gould Davis
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Andy and the Lion (1938)

A little boy named Andy was interested in lions. On his way to school, he met a real lion with a thorn stuck in its paw.

Author(s): James Daugherty
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1939

The Apaches of New York (1912)

A collection of true crime stories from the early twentieth century in New York City.

Author(s): Alfred Henry Lewis
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
Et al

Barnaby Rudge (1941)

A tale of the anti-Catholic Gordon riots.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Blacksmith and the Blackbirds (1928)

The blacksmith forbids the blackbirds his garden. So they hire him to make them gardening tools so they can make their own garden.

Author(s): Edith Rickert
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Book Illustration (1952)

A collection of articles which originally appeared in Publishers’ Weekly.

Call of the Mountain (1940)

Young Nathan Lindsay tries to carve a farm out of the mountains of Vermont in the 1830’s.

Author(s): Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Camping on the Great Lakes (1913)

A story of boys boating and camping on the Great Lakes. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Raymond S. Spears
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

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