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Christmas picture books and the lively Mother Goose trend
A survey of new children’s books and illustrations for Christmas. Notable editions include Yankee Mother Goose with Cobb’s verses and Brison’s assured drawings, The Mother Goose Paint Book with outlines, and Old Mother Hubbard by Kennedy. Other notable titles feature Denslow’s Moore, Gulliver’s Bird Book, Golliwogg’s Air Ship, and a range of animal tales, fairy tales, and educational works with distinctive artist teams and period tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother Hubbard
Mother Goose
Santa Claus
Jamieson-Higgins Company
Benjamin F. Cobb
Ella S. Brison
Saalfield Publishing Company
Harry Otis Kennedy
Jamieson- Higgins Company
Ernest Maurice Jessop
Guy Wetmore
Carry
Houghton, Millin & Co
Patsy
Dreamland
R. J. Campbell
R. H. Russell
Carolyn Wells
Oliver Herford
L. J. Bridgman
Lemuel Gulliver
Gulliver
L. Cc. Page
States of the Union
Golliwogg
Longmans, Green & Co
Florence K. Upton
Bertha Upton
Eyre & Spottiswoode
E. S
Brownie
Jimmy Crow
Dana Estes & Co
Edith Francis Foster
Rebus
Admiral Frog
John W. Harrington
Willard Bertram Price
Frances Trego Montgomery
Billy Whiskers
W. H. Fry
Harry B. Nielson
Charles Scribner’s Sons
John Brymer
Frederick A. Stokes
George
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Haith Farmilee
London
John Hassall
Clifton Bingham
Baby
Roland
Paul Elder
Morgan Shepard
Bairn
E. P. Dutton & Co
Clare Bridgman
Walter Copeland
Peter Newell
the Century Company
H. M. Caldwell Company
E. C. Somerville
Martin Ross
Prince Silverwings
Edith Ogden Harrison
A. C. McClurg & Co
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Laura Dayton Fessenden
Hans Christian Andersen
Joseph J. Mora
Dana, Estes & Co
Harriette Amsden
William Dana Orcutt
Kallisto
Little, Brown & Co
Frank L. Baum
Bowen-Merrill Company
Mary Cowes Clark
Zimmerman
Ruth Kimball Gardiner
Harry Smith
Rheims
Fleming H. Revell Company
Alfred J. Fuller
P. Dutton & Co
Jesus
Raphael Tuck & Sons
H. R. Haweis