The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo

The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes

Author	John Bennett
Illustrator	John Bennett
Cover artist	John Bennett
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Longmans, Green, and Co.
Publication date	1928
Publication place	United States

The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo with Seventeen other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes is a children's book anthology of fairy tales and short stories collected and illustrated by John Bennett. The stories are written in verse or prose, illustrated by Bennett in silhouette style. Several stories are reprints from earlier publications or adaptations. ^[1] The book was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1929. ^[2]

Collected stories

• The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo
• The Astonishing Story of the Caliph's Clock
• Ye Lily Mayden and Ye Lyttle Taylor-Boye
• The Story of the Fool Who Was Willing
• The Proud Miss O'Haggin
• Abijah's Fourth of July
• Little Peter and the Giant
• A Jest of Little John
• The Land of the Impossible (reprinted from The Bachelor and Johnson Syndicate)
• The Cat, the Cow, the Dog, and the Dairymaid
• The Persian Columbus
• The Barber of Sari-Ann
• Fritz the Master Fiddler
• Ben Ali the Egyptian
• Granger Grind and Farmer Mellow
• How Cats Came to Purr
• Ye Ballad of Scullion Jack
• Hans the Otherwise
• Ye Olde Thyme Tayle (When Knights were Bold reprinted from Life )
• The Merry Pieman and the Don's Daughter (reprinted from The Bachelor and Johnson Syndicate)
• The Basket (reprinted from Good Housekeeping; adapted from Hans Sachs)
• How It All Ended

References

1. Gillespie, John T.; Naden, Corinne J., eds. (2006). The Newbery/Printz Companion: Book Talk and Related Materials (3rd ed.). Libraries Unlimited. ISBN   1-59158-313-6.
2. "Association for Library Service to Children - Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books, 1922 – Present" (PDF). ALA.org. Retrieved December 13, 2025.

External links

• Children's literature portal

• Complete text of The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo at HathiTrust Digital Library