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:
What Time Is It? (1932)
Berta and Elmer Hader’s Picture Book of the States (1932)
A picture geography of the forty-eight states.
Elmer Hader
Elmer Hader
Young Lafayette (1932)
Auntie (1932)
Celia Jane spends a year with her Auntie, then when she is grown up and has a son of her own Auntie comes to live with her.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham
Peter Duck (1933)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint sail in search of treasure and must fight not only a hurricane but also pirates.
Arthur Ransome
Jo Ann, Tomboy (1933)
Jo Ann has her work cut out for her to bring Tommy Bassick to heel.
Louise A. Kent
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr The Magic Horse and The Gingerbread (1933)
The triplets ride their rocking horse to Candy Land and visit the baker where they are turned into gingerbread men.
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Magic Horse (1933)
The triplets ride their rocking horse to Candy Land.
The Treasure of the Isle of Mist (1934)
Fiona and the Urchin set out on a treasure hunt. The Urchin is looking for the doubloons lost by the wreck of the Spanish Armada. Fiona is searching for the Treasure of the Isle of Mist. Robert Lawson did the pictures.
Miki and Mary: Their Search for Treasures (1934)
Miki and Mary take a world tour on an ocean liner and bring back souvenirs of their travels.
Read online at archive.org.
Miska Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Broken Song (1934)
The story of a family in the last days of Imperial Russia.
Jean Lafitte, Gentleman Smuggler (1934)
Bluebonnets For Lucinda (1934)
Lucinda live on an island of the coast of Texas and comes to the mainland when the bluebonnets are in bloom.
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread (1934)
The triplets want butter for their bread, but mother has no cream and the cow has no milk because there is no grass because the sun did not shine.
Read online at archive.org.
Kees and Kleintje (1934)
The further adventures of a little Dutch boy, Kees, and his pet duck Kleintje.
The Book of Zoography (1934)
A survey of the world’s animals that end up in our zoos.