Illinois Authors

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : ©1994.

After surviving the Flood, Noah and his family settle in a sheltered valley with the animals they have saved and begin the glorious experience of repopulating the Earth.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston [Mass.] : 2010.

Presents the alphabet using words related to a country farm.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 2008.

Illustrations without words depict the enormous and complicated contraption that Mama Pig uses to get her little piglets clean.

This wordless tale depicts a community of pigs that suffer from the heat and go in search of ice despite the odds against them.

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston : 2005.

Told by his parents that his light must be out at eight o'clock, a young piglet who is afraid of the dark devises an ingenious solution to the problem.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : ©2000.

Describes a year in the present-day life of a mountain town that was founded when prospectors searching for gold arrived in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-nineteenth century.

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston : 2003.

During a visit to the art museum, a little piglet and her grandfather investigate the disappearance of several paintings. Clues in the illustrations give readers a chance to solve the mystery along with the heroine.

For Thanksgiving Day, the fourteen pigs in the Jambonneau family trim their trees to look like turkeys, but wake up one morning to find they have all been stolen.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1995], ©1991.

Mama Pig and her litter of eight rambunctious piglets settle down for a nap, but the little ones are too restless, and while their mother sleeps they wander off on an adventure.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1993.

Eight piglets wander off while their mother is still sleeping and enjoy a feast in a cornfield before she brings them home again. Story told with one word.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston [Mass.] : 2006.

Depicts, in wordless illustrations, how a little spilled milk led to the destruction of the pig family's house.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1984.

A pig family take their new balloon for a ride, race it, and eventually fly it over the North Pole.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 2004.

The River Patrollers are tired of the Pigaroons always stealing things, so when they steal a block of ice and carve it for the annual ice festival, the River Patrollers find an ingenious way to fight back.

Ten pigs go on an adventurous quest. The reader is asked to find all ten of them, and the numerals from zero to nine, in each picture.

Seven piglets cavort through a landscape of hidden letters as they build a tree house.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 2002.

A young girl demonstrates the maturity gained from her experiences growing up with three sisters on a farm in South Dakota.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : ©1998.

Describes a year in the life of a prairie town including the effect of seasons and of economics on the ebb and flow of this agricultural community.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York : ©1980.

A 13-year-old cabin boy describes his first voyage aboard a Yankee trading vessel, bound for China during the 1820's, carrying furs, silver, ginseng, sandalwood, and opium.

Enchanted Lion 2018

Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert’s Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins. Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life―that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what’s a town to do? In these pages, Geisert imagines the town of Elkader overrun by the pumpkins that grow on Pumpkin Island, which sits in the Turkey River, right outside his kitchen window.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1999.

Describes, in brief text and illustrations, a year in the life of a river bank town and the many changes that occur throughout the seasons.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1996.

Introduces Roman numerals, and by counting pigs in the illustrations the reader can reinforce the mathematical concept.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1988.

Retells the familiar Bible story, using etchings as illustrations, and vividly depicting life inside the ark.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston : 1997.

As a young boy helps prepare etchings for sale at his grandfather's studio, he imagines himself as part of some of the pictures. Includes a description of how etchings are made.

Walter Lorraine, 2007.

Enchanted Lion Books ; New York : 2012.

See how a community of pigs makes ingenious use of a giant dandelion seed, just as an erupting volcano threatens their island.

Simon and Schuster New York, [1970]

During a great snowfall Farmer Hansen and his son go looking for his cow and her new calf.

Presents an illustrated account of a storm that moves through a Midwestern farming region over the course of several hours that is documented by a timeline and images of atmospheric changes and human response. This new edition of the story is presented as one continuous illustration on a single leaf in concertina format.