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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Claws of the Thunderbird: A Tale of Three Lost Indians (1928)
Three Chippewa children captured by the Sioux escape to warn their tribe of an imminent raid by their enemy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Count Billy (1928)
Young Billy makes good his claim to lands and castles in Spain, but renounces them to win back his self-respect and the love of his friends in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Greville MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
Davy and the Goblin or What Followed Reading “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1928)
The Goblin takes Davy on a believing voyage.
Author(s):
Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s):
H. I. Bacharach
E. B. Bensell
Dickey Byrd (1928)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Woodruff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Carl Emil Wehde
The Golden Age (1928)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Kimo the Whistling Boy (1928)
A story of a boy living in Hawai'i.
Author(s):
Alice Cooper Bailey
Illustrator(s):
Lucille Webster Holling
Longshanks (1928)
Tad Hopkins is on his way downriver to New Orleans to meet his father when he is unceremoniously tossed into the river by a thief. He is rescued by a young flatboat man - Abe Lincoln.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward C. Caswell
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1928)
This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
John Rae
Frank Schoonover
Natalia and Nikolai: Children of Russia (1928)
This book in the Children of the World tells the story of two Russian children.
Author(s):
Varia Klenova
Louise Lamprey
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
T. De Thulstrup
Prudence & Peter: Their Adventures with Pots and Pans (1928)
Two twins learn to cook.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Robins
Octavia Wilberforce
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)
Author(s):
Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Goldsmith
F. C. Yohn
Tuftoo the Clown (1928)
Tuftoo is a marionette who is found by two children, who end up joining the puppet show themselves.
Author(s):
Howard R. Garis
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Where Was Bobby? (1928)
Two French children lose their dog and don’t know where to find him.
Author(s):
Marguerite Clément
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Wonderful Locomotive (1928)
Peter takes Old 44 on her last magical transcontinental run from New York to San Francisco and back in six days.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Courageous Companions (1929)
The story of an English lad who sails with Magellan around the world.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Kaleidoscope (1929)
A collection of stories which includes a robinsonnade. Dust jacket is by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Miki (1929)
Miki visits Hungary where he makes many new friends.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Penrod Jashber (1929)
Further adventures of Penrod and Sam.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Grant
Two Brothers and Their Animal Friends (1929)
Bored, two brothers go for a walk and meet many interesting friends.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski