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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Cue for Treason (1940)
Author(s):
Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator(s):
Zena Flax
The Fair American (1940)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Freddy’s Cousin Weedly (1940)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Greased Lightning (1940)
Zeke makes a pet of the runt of the sow’s litter and names him Greased Lightning.
Author(s):
Sterling North
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Happy Ever After (1940)
A Mary Poppins story which was later included in Mary Poppins Opens the Door.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Jimmy and Jemima (1940)
When Jimmy joins the boy scouts, he no longer has time for his little sister Jemima until …
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Lassie Come-Home (1940)
When Joe’s father loses his job, Lassie is sold, but she refuses to stay and comes home across the length of England.
Author(s):
Eric Knight
Illustrator(s):
Marguerite Kirmse
Lentil (1940)
When the band dries up, Lentil saves the day with his harmonica.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Michel’s Island (1940)
Michel Jarnac, son of a French voyageur and grandson of an Indian chief, lives on Mackinac Island in the early 1800’s.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Morgan’s Fourth Son (1940)
When the youngest son decides to leave the farm as his older brothers have his parents object.
Author(s):
Margaret I. Ross
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
Presents for Lupe (1940)
The story of a red squirrel from South America and her North American friends.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Secret Water (1940)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Arthur Ransome
Smoky and Pinocchio (1940)
The adventures of Pinocchio the puppet and Smoky the cat.
Author(s):
Helene Carter
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Smoky House (1940)
An exciting story about dogs and donkeys and smugglers.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
T-Model Tommy: Study Edition (1940)
This special school edition of the adventures of Tommy Ballard and his trucking company has study questions and a glossary.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Talking Typewriter (1940)
Johnny Hunt - and- Pecker learns to type from the Asterisk Man.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Pratt
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Year of Jubilo (1940)
When their father dies and his business fails, the Wymans retreat to their cottage in Maine to regroup.
Author(s):
Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Yearling (1940)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth