Marjorie Barrows
(Ruth Marjorie Barrows)
(1892 - 1983)
Ruth Marjorie Wescott Barrows was born in Chicago.
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Bibliography
Child Life: The Children’s Own Magazine (1921)
Child Life was a children’s monthly magazine founded in 1921.
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The Children’s Hour Volume 1 (1953)
A large collection of classic picture books.
Read online at archive.org.
William Pène du Bois
Hardie Gramatky
Wanda Gág
Phyllis McGinley
A. A. Milne
H. A. Rey
Dr. Seuss
Various
Elizabeth Orton Jones
Helen Sewell
Ernest H. Shepard
Nora S. Unwin
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The Children’s Hour Volume 10 (1953)
An anthology of stories about school and sports.
Read online at archive.org.
Eleanor Estes
Elizabeth Janet Gray
William Heyliger
Owen Johnson
Stephen W. Meader
John R. Tunis
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Keith Ward
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The Children’s Hour Volume 11 (1953)
A collection of stories about the pioneers in America.
Read online at archive.org.
Elizabeth Coatsworth
James Daugherty
Esther Forbes
Mark Twain
Various
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Keith Ward
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The Children’s Hour Volume 12 (1953)
A collection of historical fiction.
Read online at archive.org.
Marguerite de Angeli
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Howard Pyle
Various
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Marie A. Lawson
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The Children’s Hour Volume 13 (1953)
A collection of adventure tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Elizabeth Enright
William Heyliger
Astrid Lindgren
Marie McSwigan
Howard Pyle
Kate Seredy
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Hardie Gramatky
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Henry C. Pitz
Kate Seredy
Armstrong Sperry
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The Children’s Hour Volume 14 (1953)
An anthology of animal stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Will James
Rudyard Kipling
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Felix Salten
Ernest Thompson Seton
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Dorothy P. Lathrop
Various
Lynd Ward
The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
Read online at archive.org.
Roger Duvoisin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cornelia Meigs
Mabel L. Robinson
Various
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Henry C. Pitz
Howard Pyle
Keith Ward
Lynd Ward
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The Children’s Hour Volume 16 (1953)
A collection of short science fiction. and the various indexes to the set.
Read online at archive.org.
Various
Hardie Gramatky
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The Children’s Hour Volume 2 (1953)
An anthology of fairy tales, old and new. The illustrations by Robert Lawson had previously appeared in Just for Fun.
Kenneth Grahame
E. Nesbit
James Thurber
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Wanda Gág
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Marie A. Lawson
Robert Lawson
Henry C. Pitz
Ernest H. Shepard
Louis Slobodkin
Lynd Ward
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The Children’s Hour Volume 3 (1953)
Longer selections from classic novels.
Read online at archive.org.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Daniel Defoe
Mary Mapes Dodge
John Ruskin
Mark Twain
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Fritz Kredel
Jessie Willcox Smith
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The Children’s Hour Volume 4 (1953)
A collection of humorous and nonsense stories and verse. Includes a selection from Mr. Popper's Penguins, with illustrations by Robert Lawson.
Read online at archive.org.
Richard Atwater
Walter R. Brooks
Richard Hughes
Hugh Lofting
Betty MacDonald
Laura E. Richards
Carl Sandburg
Various
Carolyn Wells
Robert McCloskey
John Tenniel
Keith Ward
Kurt Wiese
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The Children’s Hour Volume 5 (1953)
A copious collection of poetry. Includes Robert Lawson's illustrations to three poems of Jonathan Bing. The image on page 247 of Jonathan with a wheelbarrow does not appear in Just for Fun.
Read online at archive.org.
Lewis Carroll
Charles E. Carryl
Alfred Noyes
Robert W. Service
Various
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Robert Lawson
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The Children’s Hour Volume 6 (1953)
An anthology of contemporary mid-twentieth century stories.
Read online at archive.org.
Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Mabel L. Robinson
Phil Stong
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Armstrong Sperry
Keith Ward
Kurt Wiese
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The Children’s Hour Volume 7 (1953)
A collection of mysteries, classic and contemporary.
Read online at archive.org.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
O. Henry
Robert McCloskey
Howard Pease
Edgar Allen Poe
Various
Robert McCloskey
Henry C. Pitz
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The Children’s Hour Volume 8 (1953)
A collection of myth, legend and folktale.
Read online at archive.org.
Charles Finger
Joel Chandler Harris
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Howard Pyle
Hilda van Stockum
Various
A. B. Frost
Robert McCloskey
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Henry C. Pitz
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The Children’s Hour Volume 9 (1953)
An collection of stories from many lands.
Read online at archive.org.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Kate Seredy
Armstrong Sperry
Edith Unnerstad
Hilda van Stockum
Various
Hilda van Stockum
Keith Ward
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Jonathan Bing Does Arithmetic (1936)
This is the first periodical publication of Jonathan Bing Does Arithmetic. It appeared in the June issue of Child Life for 1936, on page 248 (Volume XV Number VI). The image at the bottom of the page is larger than the version published in Just for Fun.
More About Jonathan Bing (1936)
This first periodical publication of More About Jonathan Bing appeared in Child Life for June 1936 on page 249 (volume xv, number vi). There is an additional illustration which did not appear in Just for Fun or in The Children's Hour volume 5.
Roads to Adventure (1954)
An anthology of adventure stories.
Astrid Lindgren
Willis Lindquist
Marie McSwigan
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