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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1924)
Hans and his sister try to earn money to help their mother and pay for a doctor to cure their father.
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Jibby Jones and the Alligator: The Story of the Young Alligator-Hunters of the Upper Mississippi Valley (1924)
Further adventures of Jibby Jones and his friends on the Mississippi River based on the author’s boyhood in Muscatine, Iowa.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Arthur G. Dorr
Jim Davis (1924)
Young Jim Davis accidentally stumbles on a smugglers’ den and is shanghaied into their crew, until after a series of hairbreadth adventures he finally escapes.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Mike: A Public School Story (1924)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
J. H. Hartley
The Peterkin Papers (1924)
A collection of nonsense stories about the family of Peterkins who rely on the Lady from Philadelphia to extricate them from their troubles.
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Harold M. Brett
The Poppy Seed Cakes (1924)
A collection of short stories about two not-very-good children told by Aunt Katushka.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margery Clark
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
When We Were Very Young (1924)
A book of poems in which we first meet Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1925)
This is a complete translation of the adventures of the mischievous wooden puppet, with the illustrations used in the most popular Italian edition. It was originally published in 1911. It was reprinted in 1969.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Attilio Mussino
The Adventures of Remi (1925)
Author(s):
Hector Malot
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
The Children of Dickens (1925)
Short excerpts from Dicken’s novels introducing his child characters.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Samuel McChord Crothers
Illustrator(s):
Euphame Mallison
Jessie Willcox Smith
A Dog of Flanders (1925)
Nello, a Belgian orphan rescues a dog and names it Patrasche. Together they start a milk delivery service.
Author(s):
Maria Louise Ramé
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Five of Us – and Madeline (1925)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Made-To-Order Stories (1925)
A dozen stories which originally appeared in St. Nicholas magazine.
Author(s):
Dorothy Canfield
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
The Plucky Allens (1925)
Four orphans are raised by their aunt in the good old fashioned way.
Author(s):
Clara Dillingham Pierson
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Black Angels (1926)
They all seven loved to sing, except Joseph, and eagerly accepted Benjy's plan to form an Operatic and Concert Troupe.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
George Breans
The Cruise of the Cachalot (1926)
Author(s):
Frank Bullen
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Five of Us -- and Madeline (1926)
A typical Nesbit family saga plus two fairy tales.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1926)
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
George Wharton Edwards
Juan and Juanita (1926)
Juan and Juanita and their dog Amigo are kidnapped by Comanches and held captive for four years until they make their escape and trek three hundred miles home.
Author(s):
Frances Courtenay Baylor
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Mountain of Jade (1926)
An adventure story set in Alaska among the Coppermine River eskimo. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Violet Irwin
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty