Frank Schoonover
(1877 - 1972)
Frank Earle Schoonover was an American illustrator who worked in Wilmington, Delaware.
Bibliography
Aesop’s Fables (1927)
A selection of Aesop’s fables with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color by Frank Schoonover.
Frank Schoonover
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1921)
A selection from the Arabian Nights with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color by Frank Schoonover. Read online at archive.org.
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The Children’s Longfellow (1908)
This is a much larger selection of Longfellow’s work Read online at archive.org.
N. C. Wyeth
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The Children’s Own Longfellow (1908)
This version contains only eight poems. Read online at archive.org.
N. C. Wyeth
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Deep Water Days (1929)
A collection of sea stories with illustrations by different artists.
N. C. Wyeth
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The Deerslayer or The First Warpath (1926)
While written last, in 1841, The Deerslayer is chronologically the first in the Leatherstocking Tales. Natty Bumpo, a European raised among American Indians, is the hero of the series.
Read online at archive.org.
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The Fairy Book (1922)
Classic fairy tales retold by the author, herself the author of modern fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
Frank Schoonover
Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1917)
Classic tales from the Brothers Grimm. Black and white illustrations by Rhead, color by Schoonover. Read online at the University of Florida.
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Gulliver’s Travels (1921)
Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in various strange countries, including those of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians and Houyhnhnms. Read online at Hathitrust.
Frank Schoonover
Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales and Wonder Stories (1921)
A selection of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color plates by Frank Schoonover. This scan lacks the Schoonover illlustrations. Read online at Hathitrust.
Frank Schoonover
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1924)
Hans and his sister try to earn money to help their mother and pay for a doctor to cure their father.
Frank Schoonover
Heidi (1924)
The story of an orphan who goes to live with her grandfather in the high alpine pastures.
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Ivanhoe (1922)
A story of the contest between the Normans and the old Saxon nobility of England. Read online at Hathitrust.
Kidnapped (1921)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.
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King Arthur and His Knights (1932)
A retelling of the story of King Arthur.
The Last of the Mohicans (1926)
This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican.
Robinson Crusoe (1921)
First published is 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most recent editions have been abridged and some have had the religious themes suppressed. It gave birth the the genre of Robinsonade. Read online at Hathitrust.
Louis Rhead
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The Story of the Champions of the Round Table (1933)
This is the Brandywine edition. It includes the stories of Lancelot, Sir Tristram and Sir Percival. There is also a library edition in blue cloth, without the paste on label.
Frank Schoonover
Swatty: A Story of Real Boys (1920)
A story of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi in Muscatine, Iowa. Read online at archive.org.
Frank Schoonover
Tales from Shakespeare (1918)
A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.
Mary Lamb
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