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Young Entrepreneur Genre
Books in the Young Entrepreneur genre:
Daddy Darwin’s Dovecot: A Country Tale (1884)
Author(s):
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
Farming (1903)
Author(s):
W. M. Tod
Illustrator(s):
L. Kemp-Welch
Arthur Rackham
Perkins of Portland Perkins the Great (1906)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Adrian J. Iorio
I Wish I Had Not Been a Well-Frog (1920)
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Two Friends and Their Supporting Investments (1922)
A promotional give-away for a stock brokerage firm.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Tony Sarg
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
Carter’s Legacy (1928)
A short story extolling the virtues of thrift and the history of a bank. Published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Citizens Trust Company of Utica, New York.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Rudolph Tandler
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
Big Money (1931)
Two young men, Godfrey, Lord Biskerton “Biscuit” and his one-time inseparable comrade John Beresford “Berry” Conway, and their efforts to raise money and to woo their respective girlfriends.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Harry Beckhoff
Big Money (1931)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Harry Beckhoff
Jimmy the Groceryman (1934)
An elementary school reader designed to give children information on how the world works.
Author(s):
Jane Miller
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Lumberjack (1934)
Dan Garland joins the lumber crew when they come to cut his grandfather’s pine.
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Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Henry C. Pitz
Trap-Lines North (1936)
Based on the true adventures of Jim Vanderbeck this book tells the story of his winter on the trapline.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Jim Vanderbeck
Illustrator(s):
Enos Comstock
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
Highway Past Her Door (1938)
When Judy’s grandmother dies, she is thrown on her own resources and decides to go into business for herself.
Author(s):
Mary Wolfe Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
T-Model Tommy (1938)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Young Settler (1938)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Boy with a Pack (1939)
Bill Crawford sets out from New Hampshire with a peddlar’s pack for the Ohio country.
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