Lois Lenski dedicated over fifty years of her life to both an illustrating and authorship of children’s books. Born in Springfield, Ohio in 1893, Lois lived there until the age of six when her family moved to Anna, Ohio. After receiving her teaching certificate in 1915, Lois Lenski decided to move to New York in order to study art. Lois Lenski found work as a children book illustrator in the early 1920s. In 1921 she married Arthur Covey and they had a son in 1929. Towards the later years of the 1920, Lois Lenski started to write and illustrate her own books like Skipping Village (1927), The Little Family (1932), The Little Auto (1934), Bound Girl of Cobble Hill (1938), Sugarplum House (1934), and Strawberry Girl (1945) just to name a few. Arthur Covey died in 1960 and in 1974 Lois Lenski died in her Florida home.
Box 1
File 1 – Lois Lenski (1893-1974), Biographical information
Item 1 – A Visit from St. Nick for Chimney Corner Poems, page 102, 1929
Item 2 – Berries In The Scoop, page 79, 1956
Item 3 – Big Little Davy, No. 22, 1956
Item 4 – Coal Camp Girl, page 86, 1959
Item 5 – Coal Camp Girl, page 97, 1957
Item 6 – Coal Camp Girl, page 151, 1959
Item 7 – Davy And His Dog, No. 10, 1957
Item 8 – Houseboat Girl, contents page, 1957
Item 9 – Houseboat Girl, page 109, 1957
Item 10 – Houseboat Girl, page 90, 1957
Item 11 – Houseboat Girl, page 126, 1957
Item 12 – I went For a Walk, page 43, 1958
Item 13 – “Jim” by H. Belloe in Chimney Corner Poems, Page 78, 1929
Item 14 – Little Sioux Girl, page 100, 1958
Item 15 – Peanuts for Billy Ben, page 103, 1952
Item 16 – Shoo-Fly Girl, page 89, 1963
Item 17 – Songs of Mr. Small, pages 20-21, 1954
Item 18 – The Little Sailboat, No 9, 1937
Item 19 – We Live By the River, page 94, 1956
Item 20 – We Live By the River, page 16, 1956
Item 21 – We Live In The Country, page 65, 1960
Item 22 – We Live In The Country, page 78, 1960
Item 23 – We Live In The North, page 17, 1965
Item 24 – We Live In The Southwest, page 93, 1962
Item 25 – We Live In The City, page 55, 1954
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