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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Young Walter Scott (1935)
An imaginative biography of Sir Walter Scott’s youth.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
All Things New (1936)
A story of sixteen year old Masha Oblanoff and her family of Russian immigrants making their way in New York.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Arthur Rackham: A Bibliography (1936)
A bibliography of the illustrator.
Author(s):
Grace Clark Haskell
Sarah Briggs Latimore
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Francis Scott Key (1936)
This brief biography tells of the life of Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star Spangled Banner.
Author(s):
Helen Dixon Bates
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Ming and Mehitable (1936)
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Ten Saints (1936)
Brief lives of ten saints, including Francis, Christopher and Patrick.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Their Weight in Wildcats (1936)
A collection of tales about the heroes of the American frontier taken from original sources, including Mike Fink, Daniel Boone and John Henry.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
In the fourth volume of her history Laura and the Ingalls family move to Minnesota and live in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Sunset House (1937)
More adventures of two English expatriates in Provence.
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Author(s):
Winifred Fortescue
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Working Together: The Inside Story of the Hader Books (1937)
An illustrated look at how two artists work together.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Log of Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 (1938)
An adaptation of Columbus’ description of his first voyage to America.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Bartolomé de las Casas
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
Moses (1938)
Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Young Brontës: Charlotte and Emily, Branwell and Anne (1938)
A history of the Brontë siblings between 1825 and 1830.
Author(s):
Mary Louise Jarden
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Ben and Me (1939)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and move Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shanty.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Homes in the Wilderness (1939)
Author(s):
William Bradford
Margaret Wise Brown
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Mary Wilson Stewart
Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz (1939)
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Statues of Abraham Lincoln (1939)
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Louis Slobodkin
Growing Pains (1940)
How Dear to My Heart (1940)
A biography of growing up in Missouri, by the popular journalist and radio host.
Author(s):
Mary Margaret McBride
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader