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Misty of Chincoteague is a children's novel written by pony book author Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis, and published by Rand McNally in 1947.Set in the island town of Chincoteague, Virginia, the book was inspired by the real-life story of the Beebe family and their efforts to raise a Chincoteague Pony filly born to a wild horse, who would later become known as Misty of ...
The company continued to expand its book publishing business, with best-selling children's books such as The Real Mother Goose in 1916 and Kon-Tiki in 1950. A Rand McNally map appended to the 1914 edition of The New Student's Reference Work. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways.
Sunbonnet Babies are characters created by commercial artist Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950). Sunbonnet Babies featured two girls in pastel colored dresses with their faces covered by sunbonnets. Sunbonnet Babies appeared in books, illustrations and advertisements between the years of 1900 and 1930. Sunbonnet Babies were later used as a ...
Genre. Children's literature. Angus Clifford Racey Helps (1913–1970) was an English children's author and illustrator. His books were written in a simple style and feature woodland creatures and birds, with illustrations by the author. He is known also for illustrating postcards, greeting cards, jigsaw puzzles, playing cards and wrapping paper.
Died. October 4, 1975. (1975-10-04) (aged 82) Provincetown, Massachusetts, US. Known for. Painter, printmaker, illustrator. Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893–1975) was an American artist best known for her work as a printmaker and illustrator of children's books. She took art classes in public school and at the age of fourteen began making drawings ...
American. Known for. Children's book illustration. John Wesley Dennis[2] (May 16, 1903 [3] – September 3, 1966 [a]) [2] was an American illustrator, known best for fifteen children's books about horses that he created in collaboration with writer Marguerite Henry. [4] He illustrated over 150 books in his lifetime, [5] including Anna Sewell 's ...
John R. Neill (illustrator of Baum's Oz books), Alice, Reilly and Lee (The Children's Red Books), 1908 (Evelyn) Stuart Hardy, published by John F. Shaw (c. 1908). There are 8 illustrations but within 2 issues of the book (4 in one and a different 4 in another). There is also an undated edition from the same publisher with all eight illustrations.
Lee was born Martha Agnes Rand in Chicago on March 6, 1862. [1] [a] She was the second daughter of William H. Rand, an American printer and publisher who co-founded the Rand McNally Company. [2] [3] She was educated at a boarding school in Vevey, Switzerland. [2] Lee wrote a collection of children's verse in 1898 titled The Round Rabbit. [2]