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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
What’ll You Do When You Grow Up??? (1929)
Humorous verses explore possible careers.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Children of the New Forest (1930)
A family of Royalist children take to the woods to escape from their Puritan persecuters. A Robinsonnade in Merry England.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Emil and the Detectives (1930)
Author(s):
Erich Kästner
Illustrator(s):
Walter Trier
The Five Children (1930)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
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Jinglebob (1930)
This is an authentic tale of cattle ranching in the 1880’s.
Author(s):
Philip Ashton Rollins
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Kees (1930)
Kees lives in Holland and has a pet duck named Kleintje.
Author(s):
Marian King
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Liang & Lo (1930)
Liang and Lo set out on the back of Lo’s water buffalo to slay the dragon.
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Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1930)
Author(s):
R. D. Blackmore
Illustrator(s):
Mead Schaeffer
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1930)
This is the first appearance of Peter from the book The Little White Bird. This is the fourth Rackham illustrated edition.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Red Horse Hill (1930)
Bud Martin decides to take his bulldog and try New Hampshire. He finds a warm welcome with Uncle John and Aunt Sarah.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Lee Townsend
Spinach Boy (1930)
What will become of Spinach Boy when the spinach crop fails?
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Swallows and Amazons (1930)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
Timothy and the Blue Cart (1930)
Three children spend the summer on a farm in New Hampshire and make friends with the vegetable man and the horse that pulls his blue cart.
Author(s):
Elinor Whitney
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Twilight of Magic (1930)
The twins, Giles and Anne, with assistance of Agnes the Applewoman come to the aid of the King.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1931)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
N. C. Wyeth
Alice and Thomas and Jane (1931)
Three children have adventures in an English seaside town.
Author(s):
Enid Bagnold
Illustrator(s):
Enid Bagnold
Laurian Jones
Ammon a Lad of Palestine (1931)
Amnon is a little Jewish boy who lives in Palestine.
Author(s):
Marian King
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Away to Sea (1931)
Jim Slater ran away from his father’s farmhouse to become a sailor. Later, he discovered he was aboard a slave ship.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Clinton Balmer
Benny and His Penny (1931)
Benny has too many choices for his penny so he just keeps it.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Dream Days (1931)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard