author
Edith Francis Foster
Known for early 20th-century children's books such as Mary's Little Lamb and Jimmy Crow, this writer also illustrated her own stories, giving them an extra playful charm. Her surviving work suggests a gift for making simple, imaginative tales feel warm and lively for young readers.
2 Audiobooks
Jimmy Crow
by Edith Francis Foster
Mary's Little Lamb: A Picture Guessing Story for Little Children
by Edith Francis Foster
About the author
Edith Francis Foster was an American children's author and illustrator active in the early 1900s. The clearest documented detail available here is her authorship of Mary's Little Lamb: A Picture Guessing Story for Little Children, published in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1903, with pictures by the author.
Catalog and bookseller records connected with her name also point to other children's titles, including Jimmy Crow and Marigold. Across these records, she appears as a writer whose stories were created for young readers and often paired with her own illustrations.
Reliable biographical information about her life is limited in the sources found during this search, so a fuller personal profile could not be confirmed. What does come through clearly is her place in the world of charming, illustrated children's books from the turn of the 20th century.