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Jessie Willcox Smith
(1863 - 1935)
Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children’s books.
Bibliography
At the Back of the North Wind (1919)
The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
At the Back of the North Wind (1989)
The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923)
Pictures to illustrate short synopses of famous children’s books. The illustrations first appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Nora Archibald Smith
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Boys and Girls of Bookland (1923)
Pictures to illustrate short synopses of famous children’s books. The illustrations first appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine.
Read online at archve.org.
Author(s):
Nora Archibald Smith
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Children of Dickens (1925)
Short excerpts from Dicken’s novels introducing his child characters.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Samuel McChord Crothers
Illustrator(s):
Euphame Mallison
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Children’s Hour Volume 3 (1953)
Longer selections from classic novels.
Read online at archive.org.
A Child’s Book of Old Verses (1910)
An anthology of verse for children. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
A Child’s Book of Stories (1911)
A large collection of perennial favorite fairy tales, fables and stories. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Penrhyn W. Coussens
Various
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)
‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’
And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
A Child's Stamp Book of Old Verses (1915)
A poem is on one page and a picture stamp to illustrate it is placed on the opposite page.
Author(s):
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1900)
Author(s):
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Jessie Willcox Smith
Dickens’s Children (1912)
This is a thin portfolio with ten illustrations and accompanying text. The illustrations were reused in The Children of Dickens. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Evangeline (1897)
Longfellow’s poem deals with a French Canadian love story.
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Violet Oakley
Jessie Willcox Smith
Heidi (1922)
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Heidi (1958)
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
In the Closed Room (1904)
Judith meets another little girl when her parents are house sitting for the summer, and together they explore the closed room on the fourth floor. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (1914)
In this, her magnum opus, Jessie Wilcox Smith includes seven hundred and fifty nursery rhymes.
Author(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose (1991)
In this, her magnum opus, Jessie Willcox Smith includes seven hundred fifty nursery rhymes.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Little Mother Goose (1918)
This is a smaller format version of Jessie Willcox Smith’s magnum opus, containing more than six hundred nursery rhymes. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Little Women or Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy (1915)
The story of four girls growing up during the Civil War. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith