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:
Let’s Go Outdoors (1939)
Author(s):
Harriet E. Huntington
Illustrator(s):
Preston Duncan
Lost Island (1939)
Author(s):
Nora Burglon
Illustrator(s):
James C. Reid
Make Way for the Mail (1939)
Author(s):
John J. Floherty
Illustrator(s):
John J. Floherty
Natalie (1939)
Author(s):
Enid Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Lucille Wallower
No Vacancies (1939)
Author(s):
Gertrude E. Mallette
Illustrator(s):
Herbert Morton Stoops
Real Boys and Girls Go Birding (1939)
Author(s):
Jack Van Coevering
Illustrator(s):
Jack Van Coevering
Redcoats at Castine (1939)
Author(s):
Arthur W. Patterson
Illustrator(s):
Paul Quinn
River Rising! (1939)
Author(s):
Hubert Skidmore
Illustrator(s):
Benton Spruance
Runaway ’Prentice (1939)
Author(s):
Ethel Parton
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Platt
Runaway Linda (1939)
Author(s):
Marjorie Hill Allee
Illustrator(s):
David Hendrickson
A short biography of the nineteenth century scientist who first theorized the existence of past ice ages. He was known for opposing Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
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Skycruiser (1939)
Author(s):
Howard M. Brier
Illustrator(s):
Hans Kreis
The Circus Boat (1939)
Author(s):
John Hooper
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
The Eagle’s Quest (1939)
Author(s):
Charlotte Lederer
Illustrator(s):
Charlotte Lederer
The Girl Who Was Marge (1939)
Author(s):
Edith Tallant
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley
The Golden Plover and Other Birds (1939)
Author(s):
Arthur A. Allen
Illustrator(s):
George Miksch Sutton
The Pygmy’s Arrow (1939)
Author(s):
Waldo Fleming
Illustrator(s):
Frank Dobias
The Romance of American Transportation (1939)
Author(s):
Franklin Reck
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
