Marjorie Flack
(1897 - 1958)
Marjorie Flack (October 22, 1897 - August 29, 1958) was an award-winning artist and writer of children’s picture books. Flack was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York in 1897. She was best known for The Story about Ping (1933), popularized by Captain Kangaroo, and for her stories of an insatiably curious Scottish terrier named Angus, who was actually her dog. Her first marriage was to artist Karl Larsson; she later married poet William Rose Benet.
Bibliography
Angus and the Cat (1931)
Angus the terrier has to share his home with a new cat who eats Angus’s food and sits in his favorite places. How will they ever get along?
Angus and the Ducks (1930)
When a very curious young terrier named Angus sees that the door is open, he decides to go exploring. Little does he know what neighbors await him!
Angus Lost (1932)
Always curious, Angus runs away from his house to seek new adventures. But will he make it back home?
Best In Children’s Books Volume 1 (1957)
An anthology of favorite stories, many with new illustrations.
Ingri d’Aulaire
Marjorie Flack
Rudyard Kipling
Various
Grace Paull
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Leonard Weisgard
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 11 (1958)
An anthology of stories and poems. Many of the illustrations are new to this collection.
Hans Christian Andersen
Marjorie Flack
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Et al
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 14 (1958)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Dinah Maria Mulock
Et al
Feodor Rojankovsky
Leonard Weisgard
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 18 (1959)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Johnny Gruelle
Robert Louis Stevenson
Et al
Ingri d’Aulaire
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 20 (1959)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Brothers Grimm
Jean de Brunhoff
Marjorie Flack
Charlotte Zolotow
Et al
Paul Galdone
Robin Jacques
Richard Scarry
Et al
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 6 (1962)
Through the year in poetry, prose, history and fiction centered on the holidays of America.
Emily Dickinson
Eugene Field
Joyce Kilmer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Maud Hart Lovelace
Et al
Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
Marjorie Flack
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Reisie Lonette
Et al
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939)
Cottontail is only a little country bunny, but she is wise, kind, swift and clever and so the Grandfather bunny chooses her as one of the five Easter Bunnies.
Good Times Together (1958)
Includes Willie’s Pocket by Margaret Wise Brown with illustrations by Crockett Johnson reproduced in color. An anthology for younger children about people around the world.
Margaret Wise Brown
Kenneth Grahame
Maj Lindman
A. A. Milne
Et al
Marjorie Flack
Crockett Johnson
Maurice Sendak
Helen Sewell
Et al
The Story about Ping (1933)
Ping is a young duck, who misses her master’s boat at evening and must struggle to find her way back the next day.
Read online at archive.org.
Told Under the Magic Umbrella (1939)
An anthology of thirty-two fanciful stories.
Carol Ryrie Brink
Marjorie Flack
Lois Lenski
Et al