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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1964)
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Gertrude Hermes
Is This You? (1964)
A guide to writing a biography of that most interesting person - you!
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Robert Goddard Trail Blazer to the Stars (1964)
The life of the rocket pioneer.
Author(s):
Charles Michael Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Black Buccaneer (1965)
While guarding sheep on an island off the coast of Maine, Jeremy is kidnapped by pirates and taken to the West Indies.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Edward Shenton
Education by Uncles (1966)
Author(s):
Abigail Adams Homans
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Photographs
From Colony to Nation (1966)
An account of the American Revolution abd the events leading up to it, particularly in New York, and General Washington's part in it during the years 1775-1784.
Author(s):
Olga Wilbourne Hall-Quest
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Long ago when I was Young (1966)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Long Before Forty (1967)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1967)
The story of a twelve days’ hiking and expedition in the south of France.
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Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Boyhoods of Great Composers (1968)
Author(s):
Catherine Gough
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mary Hunter Austin (1968)
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1968)
The autobiography of a British clown who was active in the early nineteenth century.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Joseph Grimaldi
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
W. Greatbach
Bernard Schleifer
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (1970)
This biography of the Admiral fills in gaps in the saga.
Author(s):
C. Northcote Parkinson
Illustrator(s):
G. Chambers
The Pepperidge Farm Baking Book (1970)
Author(s):
Margaret Fogarty Rudkin
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Vessel of Sadness (1970)
This novel based on an infantryman’s experiences at the Anzio landing in World War II has a dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
William Woodruff
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Young Ardizzone (1970)
An autobiography of the illustrator’s youth.
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Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The First Four Years (1971)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Smell of Privet (1971)
An autobiography of a British author and radio play writer.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Shirley Hughes
Three-Cornered Heart (1971)
A dual biography of two English literary ladies from the 1860’s to the 1940’s. The cover illustration is by Rackham.
Author(s):
Anne Fremantle
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Et al
The Worldly Adventures of a Teen-Age Tycoon (1971)
The story of a young man growing up in Connecticut, abridged from The Bulls and the Bees.
Author(s):
Roger Eddy
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker