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South American Genre
Books in the South American genre:
The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899)
A collection of stories about animals, mainly true. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Argonauts of the Amazon (1901)
Author(s):
C. R. Kenyon
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Quito Express (1938)
A baby stows away on the Quito Express.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Fo’castle Waltz (1945)
The artist ships out for the Argentine.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Balboa, Swordsman and Conquistador (1956)
Author(s):
Felix Riesenberg, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Hippolyte-Crab King (1956)
A young boy in Trinidad must find a way to make a costume for Carnival.
Author(s):
Joy Anderson
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
World Song (1960)
Thirteen-year-old Red, a visitor from New Mexico and an "outsider" at a Costa Rican cacao plantation, makes friends with Juanito, a boy who shares his joy in observing the yellow warblers migrating from the Navajo country.
Author(s):
Ann Nolan Clark
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Yagua Days (1975)
A young boy of Puerto Rican parentage living in New York visits his relatives in the Commonwealth.
Author(s):
Cruz Martel
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
New Shoes for Silvia (1993)
When Silvia gets a pair of ruby slippers from Tia Rosita, she can’t wait to try them on.
Author(s):
Johanna Hurwitz
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney