Ruth Sawyer

Ruth Sawyer

Ruth Sawyer (1880-1970) traveled through America, Ireland, and Spain collecting tales. Her retellings were authentic, backed by scholarly research. A frequent and much admired speaker in the United States, Sawyer collaborated on the Caldecott Honor book, Journey Cake, Ho! with her son-in-law, and noted children's book author, Robert McCloskey.

 

Other Titles:

  • Long Christmas
  • Gold of Bernadino
  • Cottage for Betsy
  • Herself, Himself and Myself
  • Way of the Storyteller
  • Year of the Christmas Dragon
  • Crib of Bo Bossu
  • This is the Christmas: A Serbian Folk Tale
  • The Wee Christmas Cabin of Carn-na-ween
  • Leerie
  • Primrose Ring
  • Least One
  • Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler's Sons
  • Year of Jubilo
  • My Spain: A Storyteller's Year of Collecting
  • Tono Antonio
  • Doctor Danny
  • Old Con and Patrick
  • Animals Christmas (poetry anthology compiled by Anne Thaxter Eaton, ill Valenti Angelo)
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Christmas Anna Angel
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Kate Seredy
from Viking Press
1945 Caldecott Honor Book
in Christmas & Advent (Location: HOLIDAY)
Daddles
by Ruth Sawyer
from Little, Brown & Company
for 1st-4th grade
in Animal Stories (Location: FIC-ANI)
Enchanted Schoolhouse
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Hugh Troy
from Viking Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Journey Cake, Ho!
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Robert McCloskey
from Viking Press
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
1954 Caldecott Honor Book
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$8.00 (3 in stock)
Joy to the World
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
from Little, Brown & Company
for 3rd-8th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Little Red Horse
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
from Viking Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Maggie Rose, Her Birthday Christmas
by Ruth Sawyer
First Edition from Harper & Brothers
for 4th-6th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Remarkable Christmas of the Cobbler's Sons
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Barbara Cooney
from Viking Press
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Roller Skates
Puffin Newbery Library
by Ruth Sawyer
from Yearling
Realistic fiction for 5th-8th grade
1937 Newbery Medal winner
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$1.50 (1 in stock)
Roller Skates
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Valenti Angelo
from Viking Press
Realistic fiction for 5th-8th grade
1937 Newbery Medal winner
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$17.00 (1 in stock)
Roller Skates
Puffin Newbery Library
by Ruth Sawyer
from Puffin Books
Realistic fiction for 5th-8th grade
1937 Newbery Medal winner
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$8.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
This Way to Christmas
by Ruth Sawyer, illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney
from Harper & Brothers
for Preschool-1st grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)