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Orphans Genre
Books in the Orphans genre:
Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl (1915)
The further adventures of Pollyooly, the angel child with the red hair. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Reginald Birch
The Golden Age (1921)
Memories of growing up orphaned by Kenneth Grahame. This was the first book Lois Lenski illustrated. It was not republished in America.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk
Heidi (1923)
The orphaned Heidi goes to live in the Swiss mountains with her grandfather. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Heidi (1924)
The story of an orphan who goes to live with her grandfather in the high alpine pastures.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Jim Davis (1924)
Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
The Adventures of Remi (1925)
Author(s):
Hector Malot
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
A Dog of Flanders (1925)
Nello, a Belgian orphan rescues a dog and names it Patrasche. Together they start a milk delivery service.
Author(s):
Maria Louise Ramé
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Plucky Allens (1925)
Four orphans are raised by their aunt in the good old fashioned way.
Author(s):
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Little Girl Blue (1926)
When Winkie’s mother is reported to have died, she is expelled from her boarding school and enters the inferno of the orphanage system.
Author(s):
Beth A. Retner
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Children of the New Forest (1927)
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Bernhard Stafford Good
Heidi (1927)
An orphan goes to live in the high pastures of Switzerland with her grandfather.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Clara M. Burd
Count Billy (1928)
Young Billy makes good his claim to lands and castles in Spain, but renounces them to win back his self-respect and the love of his friends in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Greville MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Tuftoo the Clown (1928)
Tuftoo is a marionette who is found by two children, who end up joining the puppet show themselves.
Author(s):
Howard R. Garis
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Adventures of Mario (1930)
Mario, the young hero of the book, helpless after the death of his mother and driven by an inner force as the animals are, grows up in the depths of the forest where he becomes one of the wild things.
Author(s):
Waldemar Bonsels
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1930)
This is the first appearance of Peter from the book The Little White Bird. This is the fourth Rackham illustrated edition.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Red Horse Hill (1930)
Bud Martin decides to take his bulldog and try New Hampshire. He finds a warm welcome with Uncle John and Aunt Sarah.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Lee Townsend
Dream Days (1931)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1931)
Author(s):
John Fox, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Peik (1932)
Author(s):
Barbra Ring
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson