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Vocational Genre
Books in the Vocational genre:
Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot: A Country Tale (1884)
Author(s):
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Book of Shops (1899)
Verses and pictures of shops of all kinds. Read for free online at the University of Florida.
Author(s):
Edward Verrall Lucas
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Four and Twenty Toilers (1900)
Pictures and poems about various trades and professions. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
The Story of Markets (1929)
A brief history of markets, from the town square to the New York Stock Exchange.
Author(s):
Ruth Orton Camp
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
What’ll You Do When You Grow Up??? (1929)
Humorous verses explore possible careers.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Slim (1934)
Author(s):
William Wister Haines
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Márcos, a Mountain Boy of Mexico (1937)
Marcos sets out to seek his fortune.
Author(s):
Melicent Humason Lee
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
High Tension (1938)
Author(s):
William Wister Haines
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
T-Model Tommy (1938)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Other People’s Houses (1939)
A young woman strikes out on her own in the big city.
Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
T-Model Tommy: Study Edition (1940)
This special school edition of the adventures of Tommy Ballard and his trucking company has study questions and a glossary.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Blueberry Mountain (1941)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Fire-Fighters: The Story of Fire Prevention, Past and Present (1941)
An illustrated history of fire fighting.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Helen Mitchell
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young (1943)
Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Red, White and Blue Auto (1943)
Mr. Head, Mr. Red, Mr. White and Mr. Blue learn to work together at the car factory.
Author(s):
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Little Fisherman: A Fish Story (1945)
A Big fisherman and a Little fisherman put out into the deep.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Dahlov Ipcar
New Chum (1945)
The future poet laureate tells of his experiences as a new student aboard the training ship Conway.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
New Chum (1945)
The future poet laureate tells of his experiences as a new student aboard the training ship Conway.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Man in the Manhole and the Fix-It Men (1946)
What do people do all day?
Author(s):
Edith Thacher Hurd
Juniper Sage
Illustrator(s):
Bill Ballantine
How to Be Rich, Like Me (1947)
Successful author William Hazlett Upson explains his method of making money without really working.
Author(s):
William Hazlett Upson
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant