Maud
and Miska Petersham
biographical sketch
The Petersham's wrote
their books between 1917 and 1958. They include:
Fiction:
- An American ABC
- Auntie and Celia
Jane and Miki
- The Box with Red
Wheels
- The Boy Who Had
No Heart
- The Circus Baby,
A Picture Book
- Get-Away and Hary
Janos
- Miki, The Book
of Maud and Miska Petersham
- Miki and Mary,
Their Search for Treasures
- Miki, and Siri
and Matyi (Miki was the Petersham's son)
- Off to Bed, Seven
Stories for Wide-Awakes
- The Peppernuts
- The Rooster Crows,
A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles (1945 Caldecott Medal winner)
Non-Fiction:
- America's Stamps,
The Story of 100 Years of U. S. Postage Stamps
- The Ark of Father
Noah and Mother Noah
- The Christ Child
as Told by Matthew and Luke
- David, From the
Story Told in the First Book of Samuel and the First Book of Kings
- Joseph and His
Brothers, From the Story Told in the Book of Genesis
- Moses, From the
Story Told in the Old Testament
- My Very First
Book [this was a baby's memento book for birth to age five]
- Ruth, From the
Story Told in the Book of Ruth
- The Shepherd Psalm,
Psalm 23 from the Book of Psalms
- The Silver Mace,
A Story of Williamsburg
- Stories from the
Old Testament: Joseph, Moses, Ruth, David
- The Story of Jesus,
A Little New Testament (AKA Jesus' Story)
- The Story of the
Presidents of the United States of America
Story Book Series
- The Story Book
of Aircraft
- The Story Book
of Clothes
- The Story Book
of Coal
- The Story Book
of Corn
- The Story Book
of Cotton
- The Story Book
of Food
- The Story Book
of Foods from the Field: Wheat, Corn, Rice, Sugar
- The Story Book
of Gold
- The Story Book
of Houses
- The Story Book
of Iron and Steel
- The Story Book
of Oil
- The Story Book
of Rayon
- The Story Book
of Rice
- The Story Book
of Ships
- The Story Book
of Silk [AKA Let's Learn About Silk, later ed., illustrated by James Barry]
- The Story Book
of Sugar [AKA Let's Learn About Sugar, later ed., illustrated by James Barry]
- The Story Book
of the Earth's Treasures: Gold, Coal, Oil, Iron and Steel
- The Story Book
of Things We Use: Houses, Clothes, Food, Transportation
- The Story Book
of Things We Wear: Wool, Cotton, Silk, Rayon
- The Story Book
of Trains
- The Story Book
of Transportation
- The Story Book
of Wheat
- The Story Book
of Wheels
- The Story Book
of Wheels, Ships, Trains, Aircraft
- The Story Book
of Wool
Illustrated:
- Albanian Wonder
Tales by Post Wheeler
- The Billy Bang
Book by Mabel Guinnip La Rue
- A Bird in the
Hand, Sayings from Poor Richard's Almanac by One of Our Greatest Americans,
Benjamin Franklin
- Children of the
Mountain Eagle by Elizabeth C. Miller
- Child's Own Book
of Verse, Books I, II, and III by Ada M. Skinner and Frances Gillespy Wickes
- The Enchanted
Forest by William Bowen
- Everyday Classics
Primer by Fannie Wyche Dunn, Franklin T. Baker, Ashley H. Thorndyke, and P.
H. Heap (basal reader published by Macmillan)
- The Four and Lena
by Marie Barringer
- The F-U-N Book
by Mabel Guinnip La Rue
- Fun with Polly
Parrot by Ernest Horn and Rose Wickey
- Guld, The Cavern
King (author unknown)
- Heidi by Johanna
Spyri
- Heights and Highways
(author unknown)
- History Stories
for Primary Grades by John W. Wayland
- In Animal Land
by Mabel Guinnip La Rue
- In Clean Hay by
Eric P. Kelly
- The Language Garden:
A Primary Language Book by Inez Howard, Alice Hawthorne, and Mae Howard
- Literature: A
Series of Anthologies Appreciating Literature by E. A. Cross and Helen Daringer
- A Little Book
of Prayers by Emilie Johnson
- Little Indians
by Mabel Guinnip La Rue
- Little Ugly Face
by Florence Coolidge
- The Magic Doll
of Roumania, A Wonder Story in which East and West Do Meet, Written for American
Children by Marie, Queen, Consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania
- Martin, the Goose
Boy by Marie Barringer
- Miss Posy Longlegs
by Miriam Evangeline Mason
- New Everyday Classics
First Reader by Fannie Wyche Dunn, Franklin T. Baker, Ashley H. Thorndyke,
and P. H. Heap (basal reader published by Macmillan)
- New Trails by
Sydney V. Rowland, William Dodge Lewis, and Elizabeth J. Marshall (basal reader
published by John C. Wilson)
- Nursery Friends
from France, My Travelship by Olive Beaupre Miller
- Open Road to Reading
by Reed Smith and Annie Henshall Sutton (basal reader published by Ginn and
Company)
- The Pathway to
Reading Primer by Bessie Coleman Blackstone, Willis L. Uhl, and James Fleming
Hosic (basal reader published by Silver, Burdett, and Company)
- Pinocchio by Carlo
Collodi
- Poppy Seed Cakes
by Margery Clark
- Pran of Albania
by Elizabeth Cleveland Miller
- Reading to Find
Out: A Silent Reader for Primary Grades (author unknown)
- Ring of the Lowenskolds
by Selma Lagerlof
- Rip van Winkle
and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- Rootabaga Pigeons
by Carl Sandburg
- Rootabaga Stories
by Carl Sandburg
- Susannah, The
Pioneer Cow by Miriam Evangeline Mason
- Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles and Mary Lamb
- Tales of Enchantment
from Spain by Elsie Spicer Eells
- Tales Told in
Holland, My Travelship by Olive Beaupre Miller
- Told Under the
Christmas Tree, An Umbrella Book by The Association for Childhood Education
International
- Treasure Trails
by Wilhelmina Harper and Aymer Jay Hamilton (This was a series of basal readers
for which the Petershams illustrated Pleasant Pathways, Winding Roads, Heights
and Highways, Far-away Hills, Mountain Gateways, and Journey's End.)
- Treasure Trove
by Sydney V. Rowland, William Dodge Lewis, and Elizabeth J. Marshall (basal
reader published by John C. Winston)
- Twenty-Four Unusual
Stories for Boys and Girls retold by Anna Cogswell Tyler
- Under the Story
Tree by Mabel Guinnip La Rue
- Where Was Bobby?
by Marguerite Clement
- A Wonderful Night,
An Interpretation of Christmas by James H. Snowden
- Young Trajan by
Elizabeth Cleveland Miller
- Zip, the
Toy Mule and Other Stories (author unknown)
