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Lucille Webster Holling

Illustrator

(1900 - 1989)

Lucille Webster Holling was born on Dec. 8, 1900 in Valparaiso, Indiana. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, where she met Holling Clancy Holling.

She designed theatrical scenery and costumes, and drew for fashion publications. She married Holling in 1925; designed for drama dept. on the first University World Cruise, 1926-27; with Holling, produced national advertising art and foreign travel brochures; Lucille illustrated a number of books and together they illustrated textbooks; among the Hollings’s joint publications are The Book of Indians (1935) and The Book of Cowboys (1936); moved to California, and worked with her husband on books; in 1951 she designed and oversaw the construction of their studio residence in Pasadena. She died on 31 December 1989.



Bibliography

Book of Cowboys (1936)

Peter and Barbara Ann spend the summer on their uncle’s ranch and learn about cowboys firsthand.

Read online at archive.org.

The Book of Indians (1935)

Blending history and stories, this account of the American Indian has become a classic.

Read online at archive.org.

Children Of Other Lands (1943)

From North America to North Africa and everywhere in-between, twelve stories of how children of other lands live.  For this wartime edition Canada was substituted for Japan.

Read online at archive.org.

Kimo the Whistling Boy (1928)

A story of a boy living in Hawai'i.

Author(s): Alice Cooper Bailey
Illustrator(s): Lucille Webster Holling

Little Buffalo Boy (1939)

A story about the plains Indians.

Pagoo (1957)

The life history of a hermit crab.

Read online at archive.org.

 

Seabird (1948)

The Seabird follows the history of American seafaring.

Read online at archive.org.

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1949

Treasure Book of Favorite Tales (1936)

A collection of thirty-six stories. Includes Little Folks of Other Lands, fairy tales and fables.

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