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:
Peter and Gretchen of Old Nuremberg (1935)
Two children living with their cat in Bavaria.
Read online at archive.org.
George Washington (1936)
Ingri d’Aulaire
Ingri d’Aulaire
Whistler’s Van (1936)
Endpapers and frontispiece by Zhenya Gay
The Gunniwolf and other Merry Tales (1936)
A collection of stories by leading authors illustrated by Kate Seredy.
Helen Bannerman
Rose Fyleman
Hugh Lofting
Et al
The Golden Basket (1936)
Two girls from England are on holiday in Bruges, Belgium and meet the littlest orphan, Madeleine.
Seven Beads of Wampum (1936)
Marita is a Dutch girl who comes to New Amsterdam with her parents.
Winterbound (1936)
Kay and Garry Ellis spend the winter in an old farm house, and are the better for it.
Roller Skates (1936)
Lucinda spends a year on her own in New York city in the 1890’s while her parents travel abroad for her mother’s health.
The Story Book of Foods from the Field (1936)
An omnibus including Story Books of Wheat, Corn, Rice and Sugar.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham