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:
The Secret of Silver Peak (1939)
Author(s):
Sarah Lindsay Schmidt
Illustrator(s):
Hans Kreis
This Way to the Circus (1939)
Author(s):
Emilia Hodel
Illustrator(s):
Franz Bergmann
Two Sailors and Their Voyage Around Cape Horn (1939)
Author(s):
Warwick M. Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Woodcraft (1939)
Author(s):
Bernard S. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Frederic H. Kock
A Pony Named Nubbin (1939)
Author(s):
Martin Gale
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Van Doren
Camping Down at Highgate (1939)
Author(s):
Hildreth Tyler Wriston
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Holbrook
Julia Ann (1939)
Author(s):
Rachel M. Varble
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley
Faraway Meadow (1939)
Author(s):
Thomas Handforth
Illustrator(s):
Thomas Handforth
Kobi, a boy of Switzerland (1939)
Author(s):
Conrad Buff
Mary M. Buff
Illustrator(s):
Conrad Buff
Son of the Danube (1940)
Author(s):
Boris G. Petroff
Illustrator(s):
Hans Alexander Mueller
Sinfi and the Little Gypsy Goat (1940)
Author(s):
Chesley Kahmann
Illustrator(s):
F. Luis Mora
The Happy Tower (1940)
Author(s):
Grace Irwin
Illustrator(s):
Grace Irwin
Hill Doctor (1940)
Author(s):
Hubert Skidmore
Illustrator(s):
Benton Spruance
He Heard America Sing (1940)
Author(s):
Carol Purdy
Illustrator(s):
Dorothea Cooke
Sons of the Admiral: the Story of Diego and Fernando Columbus (1940)
Author(s):
Seth Harmon
Harry I. Shumway
Illustrator(s):
Paul Quinn
Raffy and the Honkebeest (1940)
Author(s):
Rita Kissin
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Bracker
The Butterfly Shawl (1940)
Author(s):
Grace S. Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Loren Barton
