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:
An Ear for Uncle Emil (1939)
Uncle Emil, the best herdsman doll in Switzerland has lost his ear to Gigi the goose.
Read online at archive.org.
Other People’s Houses (1939)
A young woman strikes out on her own in the big city.
The Singing Tree (1939)
Jancsi and Kate must manage the ranch when the Good Master is called up to fight in World War I.
Read online at archive.org.
The Story Book of Things We Wear: Wool, Cotton, Silk, Rayon (1939)
An omnibus containing The Story Books of Wool, Cotton, Silk, and Rayon.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham
Where Did Your Garden Grow? (1939)
A guide to the flowers of the world which have found a place in our gardens.
Abraham Lincoln (1939)
Ingri d’Aulaire
Ingri d’Aulaire
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1939)
Ingri d’Aulaire
Ingri d’Aulaire
A Girl Who Would Be Queen (1939)
Eric Philbrook Kelly
All the Days Were Antonia’s (1939)
Antonia’s father had gone to Deadwood to establish a pioneer bank when gold had been discovered in the hills. Based on the actual experiences of Florence Stebbins Gleeson who, as a little girl went with her mother to join her father in Deadwood.
Gretchen McKown
Chester (1939)
Flight of the Silver Bird (1939)
Ruth Carroll
Ruth Carroll
Heroes, Outlaws and Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales (1939)
Includes stories of Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, Pecos Bill and many others.