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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Reluctant Dragon (1938)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Sharp Ears, the Baby Whale (1938)
The story of a baby whale.
Author(s):
John Yocum Beaty
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Stories from a Magic World (1938)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Woodruff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Carl Emil Wehde
The Streamlined Pig (1938)
When floods threaten the rich boy’s farm, he hires a fleet of airplanes to rescue the animals.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Swallowdale (1938)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons (1938)
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):
Arthur Ransome
Clifford Webb
T-Model Tommy (1938)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Tim and Lucy Go to Sea (1938)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1938)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
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Wee Gillis (1938)
Wee Gillis must decide whether to be a Lowlander like his mother and raise long-haired cows or a Highlander like his father and stalk stags. This is the British first edition.
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Wee Gillis (1938)
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Yearling (1938)
Jodie rescues a fawn and raises it on his family’s Florida farm.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Young Settler (1938)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Adventure May be Anywhere (1939)
Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Anne of Ingleside (1939)
In this final volume in the series, Anne is now the mother of five children with another baby on the way.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Charles V. John
The Boy Emigrants (1939)
Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. This edition bound in black cloth with a paste on cover is more typical of the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Harvey Thomas Dunn
Boy with a Pack (1939)
Bill Crawford sets out from New Hampshire with a peddlar’s pack for the Ohio country.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Children of America (1939)
Sixteen stories about American children.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Cornelia Meigs
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Lois Lenski
Leonard Weisgard
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Cock-a-Doodle Doo (1939)
In this case it’s a rooster raised by a duck in a familiar story.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Cowhand Goes to Town (1939)
Sam goes to town with his father for the cattle auctions, and hopes to get a six-shooter.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese