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Robinsonnade Genre
Books in the Robinsonnade genre:
Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)
Author(s):
Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Goldsmith
F. C. Yohn
The Children of the New Forest (1930)
A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe (1930)
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Rex Whistler
Floating Island (1930)
The Doll family is shipwrecked on a desert island.
Author(s):
Anne Parrish
Illustrator(s):
Anne Parrish
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson (1930)
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Beatrix Potter
The Adventures of Perrine (1932)
Author(s):
Hector Malot
Illustrator(s):
Milo Winter
Baby Island (1937)
When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. With them are four babies.
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Children Who Lived in a Barn (1938)
When their parents don’t return from a trip to Switzerland, the five Dunnet children have to fend for themselves.
Author(s):
Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s):
J. D. Evans
Rainbow’s End (1945)
Toby Tubbs, ship’s carpenter, and his cat Blackie are shipwrecked, and decide to settle down and build a house on the shore.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Robinson Crusoe (1946)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Invisible Island (1948)
The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Robinson Carew - Castaway (1949)
A son of wealthy parents finds himself a castaway on a desert island in Australia.
Author(s):
Dale Collins
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Swiss Family Robinson (1949)
Author(s):
Johann David Wyss
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Christopher and the Columbus (1951)
The captain and crew of the ferry boat Columbus rescue three castaways.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Children’s Hour Volume 3 (1953)
Longer selections from classic novels.
Read online at archive.org.
Robinson Crusoe (1957)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Mimff-Robinson (1958)
As a reward for good marks, Mimff’s father lets him go as a Robinson Crusoe on a deserted Swedish island. He suffers an attack by squirrels and is not a little thwarted by his friends.
Author(s):
H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories (1959)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Castaways in Lilliput (1960)
When Peggy, Jim and Ralph wash up on the shore of a desert island, the last thing they expect to find are inhabitants no larger than a man’s hand.
Author(s):
Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s):
William M. Hutchinson
Island Mackenzie (1960)
When Mackenzie is washed up on a desert island he is unaware that it is also the refuge of a cat-hating woman.
Author(s):
Ursula Moray Williams
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Robinson Crusoe (1960)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Anne Terry White
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Kaleidoscope (1963)
A collection of stories which includes a robinsonnade.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Robinson Crusoe (1968)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Sea Islanders (1970)
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
Mother Goose Rhymes and Other Childhood Favorites (1972)
A generous selection of the work of Feodor Rojankovsky including nursery rhymes, folk tales, Bible stories and even Robinson Crusoe.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Georges Duplaix
Phyllis McGinley
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Rojankovsky’s Wonderful Picture Book (1972)
A collection of some of Rojankovsky’s best illustrations from the Golden Books.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Georges Duplaix
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Island of the Skog (1973)
Author(s):
Steven Kellogg
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Boy Who Spoke Chimp (1981)
A boy and a chimp have to survive on their own after a California earthquake.
Author(s):
Jane Yolen
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Quimble Wood (1981)
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
Branka Starr
Benjamin’s Treasure (2001)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Rosemary Wells
Garth Williams
Robinson Crusoe (2011)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank