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:
King’s Pardon (1937)
Dancing Cloud (1937)
Mary M. Buff
New World Builders, Thrilling Days with Lewis and Clark (1937)
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time (1937)
A Child’s Story of the World (1937)
Portraits of the Iron Horse (1937)
Otto Kuhler
The Castle Number Nine (1937)
Baptiste comes out of retirement to go to work for the Count at the Castle Number Nine.
Private Props (1937)
Seven Simeons: A Russian Tale (1937)
King Douda enlists the seven Simeons to help him find a bride.
I Hear America Singing (1937)
This is a collection of poems about cowboys, and trains, trappers and sawyers from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Northwoods to the Gulf.
The dark blue library binding is the JLG edition. The grey binding is the trade binding.
Swords and Statues (1937)
This is the story of how Carlo Brunelli becomes a goldsmith in Italy in the 1500’s.
The blue cloth binding is the trade edition. The Junior Literary Guild edition is slightly taller and has an orange cloth binding.
Thord Firetooth (1937)
Alice Alison Lide
Et al