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Walter de la Mare
(1873 - 1956)
Walter John de la Mare, OM, CH (April 25, 1873 – June 22, 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem The Listeners. He also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories, among them Seaton’s Aunt and Out of the Deep. His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children’s books.
Bibliography
Bells and Grass (1942)
A collection of poems for children.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Come Hither Volume I and II (1973)
A very large collection of poetry, here printed in two paperback volumes. The covers are illustrated by Erik Blegvad, as is the slipcase for the two volumes.
Read Volume I online at archive.org.
Read Volume II online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Diana Bloomfield
Crossings: A Fairy Play (1923)
A rather difficult play for children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
C. Armstrong Gibbs
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Down-Adown-Derry (1922)
A book of fairy poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories (1931)
A collection of original fairy stories.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Fairy Shoemaker and Other Fairy Poems (1928)
Five poems with illustrations.
Author(s):
William Allingham
Matthew Arnold
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Boris Artzybasheff
Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)
First mate Bumps brings a remarkable monkey named Jasper home to England.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1946)
A collection of poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1953)
A collection of poems. This is a larger format than the 1946 printing.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1969)
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a very popular collection of poems first published in 1913.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Saturday Book Twelfth Issue (1952)
Five drawings by Ardizzone are included in this popular Annual miscellany featuring British authors and illustrators.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Christopher Morley
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Ronald Searle
Et al
Songs of Childhood (1902)
A collection of poems intended for children. The frontispiece is by Richard Doyle. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Richard Doyle
Spooks, Spooks, Spooks (1966)
A collection of ghost stories including Demon at Green Knowe.
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Walter de la Mare
Et al
Illustrator(s):
W. R. Lohse
Stories from the Bible (1961)
Bible stories re-written for children from the garden of Eden to the promised land.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Story of Joseph (1958)
Joseph is sold into Egypt as a slave but rises to become the Pharaoh’s vizier.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Story of Moses (1959)
The story of the Hebrew baby who goes from bullrushes to prince of Egypt, to fugitive murderer to chosen leader of the Jewish people in their exodus from Egypt.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Story of Samuel and Saul (1960)
The story of the prophet and the first King of Israel.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Sung Under the Silver Umbrella (1935)
An anthology of poems.
Read online at archive.org.
The Three Mulla-Mulgars (1919)
Thumb, Thimble and Nod set out to find their royal father and the earthly paradise of Tishnar. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Wonderful Things Happen (1958)
An anthology of adventure stories and poems for younger children.