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Virginia Lee Burton
(1909 - 1968)
Virginia Lee Burton (August 30, 1909 – October 15, 1968), also known by her married name, Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children’s book author. She both wrote and illustrated seven children’s books, including the Caldecott Medal-winning “The Little House” (1942).
Bibliography
Belinda and the Singing Clock (1938)
Belinda and her father take to the road in a house trailer
Author(s):
Ethel Calvert Phillips
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Calico the Wonder Horse: or, The Saga of Stewy Slinker (1941)
A Christmas story about a cow horse and a bad man.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Calico the Wonder Horse: or, The Saga of Stewy Stinker (1951)
A Christmas story about a cow horse and a bad man. The illustrations were redrawn for this second edition.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Children of America (1939)
Sixteen stories about American children.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Cornelia Meigs
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Lois Lenski
Leonard Weisgard
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Choo Choo: The Story of a Little Engine Who Ran Away (1937)
The story of a train engine that runs away.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Don Coyote (1942)
A collection of folk tales from the southwest.
Author(s):
Leigh Peck
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Emperor’s New Clothes (1949)
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Fairies and Friendly Folk (1934)
A collection of folk songs for the piano. The illustrator is credited as Virginia Lee Demetrios.
Author(s):
Mary Bacon Mason
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Fast Sooner Hound (1942)
’You couldn’t see a thing for steam, cinders and smoke’ and the ‘rails sang like a violin for half an hour’ after the Cannon Ball passed, but the fast Sooner hound left it in his dust.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Arna Bontemps
Jack Conroy
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Handbook of American Mountaineering (1942)
A guide to mountain climbing technique.
Author(s):
Kenneth Atwood Henderson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Katy and the Big Snow (1943)
When the big snow paralyzes the town, Katy goes to work and plows it out.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Life Story: The Story of Life on Our Earth From Its Beginning Up to Now (1962)
A story of life on earth from its beginnings up until today.
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Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Little House (1942)
The Little House gets a new lease on life when she moves to the country.
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Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Maybelle the Cable Car (1952)
When the city fathers of San Francisco decide to remove the cable cars in the name of progress, the people vote to keep them.
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Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939)
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Mike Mulligan and More: A Virgina Lee Burton Treasury (2002)
An omnibus containing Mike Mulligan, The Little House, Katy and the Big Snow and Maybelle the Cable Car.
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Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Sad-Faced Boy (1937)
Three young boys hop a freight in Alabama to visit their Uncle Jasper Tappin in Harlem.
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Author(s):
Arna Bontemps
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Eighteen of the original ballads of Robin Hood are illustrated here. Most of them also have accompanying music.
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Author(s):
Grace Castagnetta
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Story Parade Yellow Book (1939)
A collection of stories and poems from Story Parade magazine.
Virgina Lee Burton: A Life in Art (2002)
A biography of author and illustrator Virginia Lee Burton.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
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Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
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