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Rachel Field Publications |
| Books Written by Rachel Field title, year of publication, notes | Child/ Adult |
copy in museum? (6 may 07) |
|---|---|---|
| All This and Heaven Too (Macmillan1938,1939,1940,Movie1940,Movie1941,1996,2003) | A | 1938 1st ed, signed by author
VHS tape 1941 ed, with stills from the movie |
| All Through the Night (Macmillan1940); with drawings by Shirley Hughes (London, Macmillan1954) | C | 1940 |
| An Alphabet for Boys and Girls (Doubleday1926) verses and pictures by Rachel Field | C | 1926 1st. ed. |
| And Now Tomorrow (Macmillan1942,1943,1967) | A | 1967 |
| The Atlantic Book of Junior Plays (1924) with Thomas Charles Swain | C | |
| Ave Maria, an interpretation from Walt Disney's "Fantasia"; music by Franz Shubert, lyrics by Rachel Field (Random1940) | A | 1940 |
| The Bad Penny: A Drama in One Act (Samuel French1931,1958) | A | 1958 |
| The Bird Began to Sing (Morrow1932) illustrator Ilse Bischoff | C | 1932 |
| Branches Green (Macmillan1934) illustrator Dorothy Lathrop | A | 1934 |
| Calico Bush (Macmillan1931,1966,1974,1987) wood engravings by Allen Lewis | C | 1931 1st ed, signed by author |
| Christmas Time (Macmillan1941) | C | 1941 |
| A Circus Garland: Poems (Winter Wheat Press1930) | ||
| The Cross-Stitch Heart and Other Plays (Scribner1927,1928) six one-act plays for high-school, college, or little theatre presentations: The Cross-Stitch Heart, Greasy Luck, The Nine Days' Queen, The Londonderry Air, At the Junction, and Bargains in Cathay | A | 1928 |
| Eliza and the Elves (Macmillan1926,1928,1930) illustrator Elizabeth MacKinstry | C | 1930 |
| Fear is the Thorn (Macmillan1936) poems | A | 1936 |
| First Class Matter (Samuel French1936) a comedy in one act | A | 1936 |
| General Store (1926) illus. Nancy Winslow Parker, (1988) illustrator Giles Laroche | C | 1988 |
| God's Pocket: The Story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jr. of Cranberry Isles, Maine (Macmillan1934,1936,1999) | A | 1936 & 1999 |
| Hepatica Hawks (Macmillan1932) wood engravings by Allen Lewis | C | 1932 |
| Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (Macmillan1929,1930,1933,1993,1995) illustrator Dorothy Lathrop; Newbery Medal winner | C | May 1930 ed, signed by author |
| If Once You Have Slept on an Island (poem from Taxis and Toadstools©1926) (1993,1995) illustrator Iris Van Rynbach | C | 1993 1st ed |
| Just Across the Street (Macmillan1933) | C | 1933 |
| A Little Book of Days (Doubleday1927) verses and pictures by Rachel Field (a companion book to An Alphabet for Boys and Girls) | C | 1927 1st. ed. |
| Little Dog Toby (Macmillan1928,1943,1952) | C | 1952 |
| The Magic Pawnshop: A New Year's Eve Fantasy (Dutton1927,1928,1937) illustrator Elizabeth MacKinstry | C | 1927 |
| Patchwork Plays (1930) for juveniles: Polly Patchwork, Little Square-Toes, Miss Ant, Miss Grasshopper, and Mr. Cricket, Chimney-Sweeps' Holiday, and The Sentimental Scarecrow | C | 1930 |
| Pocket-Handerkerchief Park (Doubleday1929) | C | 1929 1st ed, signed by author |
| Poems by Rachel Field (Macmillan1957) | C | 1960 |
| The Pointed People (Yale University Press1924,Macmillan1926,1930) | C | 1930 |
| Points East: Narratives of New England (Brewer&Warren1930,Macmillan1933) | A | 1933 |
| Polly Patchwork (Doubleday1928) | C | 1928 1st ed |
| Prayer for a Child (Macmillan1944,1972,1984) illustrator Elizabeth Orton Jones; Caldecott Medal winner | C | 1944 |
| The Rachel Field Story Book (Doubleday1958) illustrator Adrienne Adams: with Polly Patchwork, Pocket-Handkerchief Park, and The Yellow Shop | C | 1958 |
| A Road Might Lead to Anywhere (1990) illustrator Giles Laroche | C | 1990 1st ed, signed by illustrator |
| Six Plays (Scribner1924,1927) for amateur presentation: Cinderella Married, Three Pills in a Bottle, Columbine in Business, The Patchwork Quilt, Wisdom Teeth, and Theories and Thumbs | A | 1927 |
| Susanna B. and William C. (Morrow1934) | C | 1934 |
| Taxis and Toadstools (Doubleday1926) | C | yes, 1926? |
| Time Out of Mind (Macmillan1935,1938,Movie1947,1971) | A | 1935, signed by author '36 |
| To See Ourselves (Macmillan1937) co-authored with Arthur Pederson (husband) | A | 1937 1st ed |
| The Yellow Shop (Doubleday1931) | C | |
| Movies from Rachel Field pieces | ||
| All This and Heaven Too (1940) starring Bette Davis & Charles Boyer | A | VHS |
| And Now Tomorrow (1944) starring Alan Ladd & Loretta Young; Raymond Chandler co-wrote the script | A | VHS |
| Fantasia (1940) Disney classic; R.F. was special lyricist for the Ave Maria segment | A | DVD |
| The Londonderry Air (1938) starring Sara Allgood & Liam Gaffney (from The Cross-Stitch Heart and Other Plays) | A | |
| Time Out of Mind (1947) starring Phyllis Calvert & Robert Hutton, with Eddie Albert & Leo G. Carroll | A | VHS |
| Books Edited by Rachel Field | ||
| Fortune's Caravan by Lily Jean-Laval (Morrow1933,1946) edited by Rachel Field | ||
| American Folk and Fairy Tales (Scribner1929) selected by Rachel Field, illustrator Margaret Freeman | C | 1929 |
| People from Dickens (Scribner1935) arranged by Rachel Field, illustrator Thomas Fogarty | A | 1935 |
| The White Cat, and Other Old French Fairy Tales by Mme. La Comtesse D'Aulnoy (Macmillan1928,1967) arranged by Rachel Field, illustrator Elizabeth MacKinstry | C | 1967 |
| Magazine pieces by Rachel Field | ||
| About Lovat Fraser (article), Contemporary Illustrators of Children's Books by Bertha E. Mahoney & Elinor Whitney (Bookshop for Boys & Girls1930) | ||
| Beginning of Wisdom (story), illustrator Norman Rockwell, The American Magazine, Mar. 1942 | A | yes |
| The Bookcase Apartments (article), Child Life, Sept. 1935 | C | yes |
| Christmas in the Heart (story) illustrator Norman Rockwell, The American Magazine, Jan. 1941 | A | yes |
| How Hitty Happened (article), The Horn Book Magazine, Feb. 1930 | A | |
| Silhouettes (poem) illustrator Electra Papadopoulos, Child Life, Mar. 1931 | C | yes |
| Snow by Night (poem) illustrator Dorothy Lathrop, Child Life, Nov. 1934 | C | yes |
| Something Told the Wild Geese (poem) illustrator Dorothy Lathrop, Child Life, Oct. 1934 | C | yes |
| Stone by the Birch (story), illustrator John Holmgren, The American Magazine, Sept. 1935 | A | yes |
| Pieces about Rachel Field | ||
| The Child Persona in Taxis and Toadstools by Malcolm Usrey, Children's Literature Association Quarterly 7, #2, (Summer 1982) | A | |
| Great books for girls? A case study of American Children's novels by Amy Singer; Meowpower Feminist Online Journal, Vol. 1 Issue 4, 20 May 2006 (Discusses Hitty, Her First Hundred Years) | A | on the web |
| The Horn Book Magazine, July-August 1942 (Rachel Field memorial edition, with photos, and several articles about her) | A | yes |
| Rachel Field 1894-1942 (memorial essay) by Laura Benét, Saturday Review of Literature, 28 March 1942 | A | yes |
| Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles (article) by Herbert Edwards, Down East, Aug. 1971 | A | yes |
| Rachel Field and Her Contributions to Children's Literature by Margaret Lane; in Andrews, The Hewins Lectures, 1947-1962 | A | yes |
| Books illustrated by Rachel Field | ||
| Come Christmas (Stokes1927) by Eleanor Farjeon, illustrator Rachel Field | C | |
| The House that Grew Smaller (Macmillan1931) by Margery Williams Bianco, illustrator Rachel Field | C | |
| How to Tell Stories to Children (1933) by Sara Cone Bryant, illustrators Rachel Field & others | ||
| Punch & Robinetta (1923) by Ethel May Gate, illustrator Rachel Field | ||
| Tell Me a Story I Never Heard Before (Fleming H. Revell 1919) by Mary Stewart, illustrator Rachel Lyman Field | C | 1919 |
| Compilations with Rachel Field pieces | ||
| Across the Blue Bridge (school reader) by F.W. DeLancey & W.J. Iverson (1960,1965) illustations by Guy Brown Wiser Associates; includes poems At the Theater, Meeting, and The Old Coach Road (from Taxis and Toadstools), City Lights (from The Pointed People) | C | 1965 |
| The Grandma Moses Storybook (Random House 1961) ed. by Nora Kramer, illus. by Grandma Moses; includes excerpt from Hitty, Her First Hundred Years: "Sold at Auction" with painting by Moses (age 101) made especially for this excerpt | C | 1961 |
| Harvard Plays Vol. I.: Plays of the 47 Workshop (Brentanos1918,1920,1921,1923) ed. by George P. Baker; includes play Three Pills in a Bottle | A | 1921 |
| A Horn Book Sampler (Horn Book1959) ed. by Norma R. Fryatt; with poem A Valentine for Old Dolls | A | yes |
| My Book of Poems (Western,1985) compiled by Ben Cruise, illus. by Gloria Solly; includes poems Barefoot Days and I'd Like To Be a Lighthouse | C | 1985 |
| The St. Nicholas Anthology (Random House1948) with A Winter Walk by Rachel Lyman Field, age 16 | A | 1948 |
| Wings from the Wind (Lippincott1964) poems selected & illus. by Tasha Tudor; includes General Store, A Charm for Spring Flowers, and Something Told the Wild Geese | C | 1964 |