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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Woodcraft Manual for Boys of the Woodcraft League (1917)
A scouting manual from a precursor of the Boy Scouts of America. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Hans Brinker: or The Silver Skates (1918)
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Maginel Wright Enright
The Sandman’s Forest: A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons (1918)
Author(s):
Louis Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Paul Bransom
Tang of Life (1918)
An old-fashioned cowboy shoot-em-up. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Herbert Knibbs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
At the Back of the North Wind (1919)
The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Rainbow Valley (1919)
In this book, the attention turns to Anne and Gilbert’s children and their neighbors. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk
The Water Babies (1919)
Tom the chimney sweep is swept away to the bottom of the sea. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Adventures of Fleet Foot and her Fawns (1920)
Author(s):
Allen Chaffee
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1920)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Thomas Mackenzie
The Black Buccaneer (1920)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Dot and Tot of Merryland (1920)
Dot and her neighbor Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a new fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
W. W. Denslow
A Little Boy Lost (1920)
A small boy wanders off into the jungle and has many adventures. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
William Henry Hudson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1920)
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Princess and the Goblin (1920)
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Roy Blakeley’s Silver Fox Patrol (1920)
Author(s):
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Illustrator(s):
Thomas Clarity
Howard L. Hastings
The Sandman’s Mountain: A Story for Large Persons to Read to Small Persons (1920)
The further adventures of Giddy, just five, in the Sandman’s country. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Paul Bransom
Seven O’Clock Stories (1920)
Author(s):
Robert Gordon Anderson
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Swatty: A Story of Real Boys (1920)
A story of boyhood adventures along the Mississippi in Muscatine, Iowa. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
W. B. King
Frank Schoonover
Westward Ho! (1920)
Author(s):
Charles Kingsley
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Golden Age (1921)
Memories of growing up orphaned by Kenneth Grahame. This was the first book Lois Lenski illustrated. It was not republished in America.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski