Author:Frances Aretta Carpenter

Frances Aretta Carpenter
(1890–1972)

Frances Aretta Carpenter

Works

• The Ways We Travel, 1929

With Frank George Carpenter

• The Food We Eat, 1925
• The Clothes We Wear, 1926
• The Houses We Live In, 1926

Grandmother Tales collections

• Tales of a Basque Grandmother, 1930
• Tales of a Russian Grandmother, 1933
• Tales of a Chinese Grandmother, 1937
• Tales of a Swiss Grandmother, 1940
• Tales of a Korean Grandmother, 1947

International folklore anthologies

• Wonder Tales of Horses & Heroes, 1952
• Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats, 1955
• Wonder Tales of Seas & Ships, 1959
• The Elephant’s Bathtub: Wonder Tales From The Far East, 1962
• African Wonder Tales, 1963.
• The Mouse Palace, 1964
• South American Wonder Tales, 1969
• People from the Sky: Ainu Tales from Northern Japan, 1972

Additional ethnographic works

• Ourselves & Our City, 1928
• The Ways We Travel, 1929
• Children of Our World, 1929
• Our Little Friends of Eskimo Land: Papik & Natsek, 1931
• Our Neighbors Near and Far, 1933
• Our Little Friends of the Arabian Desert: Adi & Hamda, 1934
• Our Little Friends of the Netherlands: Dirk & Dientje, 1935
• Our Little Friends of Norway: Ola & Marit, 1936
• Our Little Friends of China: Ah Hu and Ying Hwa, 1937
• Our Little Neighbors at Work & Play: Here, There, Then & Now, 1939
• Our Little Friends of Switzerland: Hansli & Heidi, 1941
• Our South American Neighbors, 1942
• The Pacific: Its Lands & Peoples, 1944
• Our Neighbors Near & Far, 1946
• Canada & Her Northern Neighbors, 1946
• Children of Our World, 1949
• Caribbean Lands: Mexico, Central America, & the West Indies, 1950
• Children of Our World, 1956
• Our Homes & Our Neighbors, 1956
• Pocahontas & Her World, 1957
• The Story of East Africa, 1967
• The Story of Korea, 1969
• Spooks and Scoundrels, 1976

Memoir

• Carp's Washington, 1960
• Holiday in Washington, 1966