Junior Literary Guild
The Junior Literary Guild is a commercial book club. It began in 1929 as an enterprise of the Literary Guild. By the 1950s, the majority of their book sales were to public libraries. In 2004 they started listing their Junior Literary Guild selections at their own website. What we refer to as “winners” are their selections for different age groups.
Winners:
New World Builders, Thrilling Days with Lewis and Clark (1937)
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time (1937)
Portraits of the Iron Horse (1937)
Otto Kuhler
Private Props (1937)
The Little Boy and His House (1937)
Steven Bone
Steven Bone
Thord Firetooth (1937)
Alice Alison Lide
Et al
Up Creek and Down Creek (1937)
Buttons (1938)
After experiencing a tough neighborhood growing up, an alley cat finally finds a home.
Read online at archive.org
The Young Brontës: Charlotte and Emily, Branwell and Anne (1938)
A history of the Brontë siblings between 1825 and 1830.
Stories from the Old Testament: Joseph, Moses, Ruth, David (1938)
Four favorite Old Testament stories of the Patriarchs.
Read online at archive.org.
Miska Petersham
The Four and Lena (1938)
Four children and a goose head for the mountains for the summer.
Miska Petersham