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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

Something for Christmas (2011)

A mouse is searching for the perfect gift for someone he loves.

Author(s): Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s): Palmer Brown

Walt and Skeezix 1929 & 1930 (2011)

Frank O. King’s newspaper strip Gasoline Alley, starring Walt Wallet, first appeared November 24, 1918. In the strip for February 14, 1921, a baby, whom Walt names Skeezix is left on Walt’s doorstep. This is the fifth volume of the collec... View More

Author(s): Frank King
Illustrator(s): Frank King

Around the World We Go (2012)

Sing, dance and play with children from around the world.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Christine Tappin

Cheerful: A Picture-Story (2012)

A young church mouse sets out to see the world.

Author(s): Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s): Palmer Brown

Clorinda Plays Baseball (2012)

Clorinda the cow takes up baseball. In no time at all her protege Deke is in in the big leagues. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Kinerk
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

The Complete Steve Canyon Dailies and Color Sundays Volume 1 1947-1948 (2012)

This is the first volume in a reprinting of the adventure strip written and drawn by Milton Caniff beginning in 1947 until his death in 1988 and includes the dailies and color Sundays.... View More

Author(s): Milton Caniff
Illustrator(s): Milton Caniff

Little Golden Book Farm Favorites (2012)

An collection including A Day on the Farm, A Name for Kitty and The Jolly Barnyard.... View More

Little Pookie (2012)

Ten things his mother knows about Little Pookie.

Author(s): Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s): Sandra Boynton

Mike and Psmith (2012)

Originally published as the second part of Mike. On his first day at his new public school Mike meets Psmith, the P is silent, a superannuated Etonian.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Moomin Volume 7 (2012)

After the success of Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, the London Evening News commissioned Tove Jansson to write a comic strip based on the characters.... View More

Author(s): Lars Jansson
Illustrator(s): Lars Jansson

The Moomins and the Great Flood (2012)

In this, the very first Moomin book, Moominmamma and Moomintroll search for the missing Moominpappa. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

Peter Pan: Lost and Found (2012)

An introduction to Peter Pan for those who are just learning to read.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Susan Hill
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby (2012)

On another lavender blue day Anna Lavinia explores dew pond hill and travels through the dew pond to meet her cousin Toby

Author(s): Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s): Palmer Brown

Tales of St. Austin’s (2012)

A dozen ‘public school’ stories set at St. Austin’s.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere (2012)

Twenty-five stories of boarding school life by the Master.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

The Velveteen Rabbit and the Boy (2012)

An early reader using the characters from The Velveteen Rabbit. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Maria S. Barbo
Illustrator(s): Michael Hague

Away in My Airplane (2013)

A poetical flight through the air.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Henry Fisher

Barnaby Volume One (2013)

This first volume of the complete Barnaby comic strip covers 1942-1943, as Barnaby first meets his Fairy Godfather, Jackeen J. O’Malley, a cigar smoking Irishman. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s): Crockett Johnson

The Fish with the Deep Sea Smile (2013)

This edition only includes the single story of the title in which a family of fishermen search for one wondrous fish. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Henry Fisher

The Green Bath (2013)

Sammy sets out to sea in his beautiful pea green bath tub and returns with the pirates’ treasure.

Author(s): Margaret Mahy
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

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