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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Bring on the Girls (1953)
Plum (lyrics) and Guy (book) reminisce about their years as kings of Broadway musical comedy. This is a somewhat revised edition of the first American Simon and Schuster edition of 1953.
Author(s):
Guy Bolton
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
The Children’s Hour Volume 15 (1953)
A collection of short biographies of famous men and women.
Read online at archive.org.
Little House in the Big Woods (1953)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with Pa and Ma, Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin near Lake Pepin.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Little House on the Prairie (1953)
In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Little Town on the Prairie (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Long Winter (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman: Pioneers of Oregon (1953)
The story of the missionaries and their massacre.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
My Friend Yakub (1953)
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters (1953)
Comprises a selection of the letters Wodehouse wrote to Townend over a period of more than thirty years.
Author(s):
William Townend
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
The Story of Peter Tschaikowsky Part One (1953)
The famous Russian composer for children.
Author(s):
Opal Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Story of the Presidents of the United States (1953)
Short biographies of the American presidents from Washington to Eisenhower.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Ten Brave Women (1953)
Includes brief biographies of Anne Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Narcissa Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Susan B. Anthony, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Lyon, Ida M. Tarbell and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
These Happy Golden Years (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Ernest Thompson Seton’s America (1954)
An anthology of the writings of Ernest Thompson Seton, British-Canadian-American naturalist and founder of the Boy Scouts of America.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Julia M. Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Great People Through the Ages (1954)
A collection of short biographies of people every child should know.
Author(s):
Albert Hitchcock
L. J. Hitchcock
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
John James Audubon (1954)
A biography of the great painter of American birds for young people.
Author(s):
John Kieran
Margaret Ford Kieran
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Livingstone the Pathfinder (1954)
Author(s):
Basil Mathews
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Going to the Wars (1955)
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Is This You? (1955)
A guide to writing a biography of that most interesting person - you!
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson