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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.
Best in Children’s Books Volume 39 (1960)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
Read online at archive.org.
Finnegan II: His Nine Lives (1953)
Finnie intends to have more than nine lives.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Gunniwolf and other Merry Tales (1936)
A collection of stories by leading authors illustrated by Kate Seredy.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Helen Bannerman
Rose Fyleman
Hugh Lofting
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Miss Hickory (1946)
Miss Hickory has a hickory nut for a head, but her body is an applewood twig.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
The Shining Tree and Other Christmas Stories (1940)
An anthology of Christmas stories.
Author(s):
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Lois Lenski
Mabel L. Robinson
Elizabeth Yates
Et al
Illustrator(s):
None
Stories of Early America (1958)
Stories and poems about early American history for younger children.
Read online at archive.org.
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.