Ruth Chrisman Gannett
(1896 - 1979)
Ruth Chrisman Gannett was born in California. She illustrated many famous children’s books, chiefly with lithographs.
Bibliography
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 3 (1962)
This collection includes fables, folk tales, and fairy tales.
Walter R. Brooks
Lewis Carroll
Carlo Collodi
William Pène du Bois
George MacDonald
A. A. Milne
Mary Norton
John Ruskin
Et al
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
Ernest H. Shepard
John Tenniel
Nora S. Unwin
Kurt Wiese
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 Dragons of Blueland (1951)
When Elmer Elevator’s dragon friend Boris and his family are in danger, he is off to Blueland to help them escape their captors.
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Elmer and the Dragon (1950)
On their way home from Wild Island, Elmer Elevator and the baby dragon stop off at Feather Island where they meet the escaped canaries and search for treasure.
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Hi-Po the Hippo (1942)
When a baby hippo is left on their front lawn, Mr. and Mrs Hippo decide to keep him.
How the Baby Hippo Found a Home (1942)
One morning Mr. and Mrs. Hippo find a baby in a basket by their front door. Mr. Hippo decides to keep the little boy whose name is Hi-Po.
Miss Hickory (1946)
Miss Hickory has a hickory nut for a head, but her body is an applewood twig.
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My Father’s Dragon (1948)
When an alley cat he befriends tells Elmer Elevator about the captive baby dragon on Wild Island, he determines to go to the island and set him free.
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My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1945)
We don’t love people because they are beautiful. They are beautiful because we love them.
Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon (1998)
A boxed set containing My Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, and The Dragons of Blueland.
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