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Biography Genre
Books in the Biography genre:
Peter the Great (1943)
A biography of the Russian Tsar who built St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea as his new capital.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
These Happy Golden Years (1943)
In the eighth book of her biography Laura Ingalls becomes Mrs. Almanzo Wilder.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
First Whisper of “The Wind in the Willows” (1944)
This book reprints the original letters written to his son by Kenneth Grahame that later became The Wind in the Willows.It also includes a new story Bertie’s Escapade.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
John Singer Sargent
Garibaldi (1944)
A biography of the Italian revolutionary.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Little Stone House (1944)
The author/artists tell the story of how they built themselves a house in the woods from the native stone and timber.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Yankee Thunder: The Legendary Life of Davy Crockett (1944)
Born on a mountain top, he fell at the defense of the Alamo.
Author(s):
Irwin Shapiro
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Daniel Boone (1945)
A brief biography of the American backwoodsman and explorer who opened up the west. In this edition, the text has been considerably enlarged.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Door Opens (1945)
The author records childhood memories of growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Author(s):
Ernst Lothar
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Egg and I (1945)
The creator of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle started in life as the wife of a chicken farmer in the wilds of the Olympic Peninsula.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Fo’castle Waltz (1945)
The artist ships out for the Argentine.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Heaven to Betsy (1945)
Betsy and Tacy start high school at Deep Valley High.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Lenin (1945)
Lenin along with Hitler, Mao, and his successor Stalin was one of the greatest monsters of the twentieth century.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Marta of Muscovy: The Fabulous Life of Russia’s First Empress (1945)
A fictionalized biography of Catherine the First of Russia.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
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
Tux ’n Tails (1945)
A humorous inside look at the life of a waiter.
Author(s):
Raymond Andrieux
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
America’s Paul Revere (1946)
A vivid history of one of America’s best-loved patriots.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Esther Forbes
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946)
Betsy and her friends are sophomores at Deep Valley High.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
The Great White Hills of New Hampshire (1946)
A regional memoir by a war correspondent about New Hampshire in the early twentieth century.
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Magic Footstool (1946)
This is a collection of short biographies suitable for elementary grades.
Author(s):
Victoria Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Randolph Caldecott 1846-1886 An Appreciation (1946)
A brief biography of the British illustrator.
Author(s):
Mary Gould Davis
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott