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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Story of Simpson and Sampson (1941)
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Susannah the Pioneer Cow (1941)
Susannah and her calves Posy and Rosy travel from Virginia to a new home in the Midwest.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
A Tree for Peter (1941)
Peter’s life is changed when he meets Peter King in shantytown
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah (1941)
When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.
Author(s):
Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s):
Stuart Tresilian
The Young Patriots (1941)
Patty escapes capture by pirates during the Revolutionary War and ends up on Block Island.
Author(s):
Marjorie A. Hayes
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
All-American (1942)
Ronald Perry is the star of a High School football team. In a hard tackle, he nearly kills a Jewish boy playing for the rival school. Perry wrestles with how to make things right.
Author(s):
John R. Tunis
Illustrator(s):
Hans Walleen
Andries (1942)
Ten-year-old Andries joins his uncle in a large, but silent and unhappy house. Across the way sits a cottage, overflowing with the lively Dykstra family.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Black Buccaneer (1942)
While guarding sheep on an island off the coast of Maine, Jeremy is kidnapped by pirates and taken to the West Indies.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Edward Shenton
The Blue-Eyed Lady (1942)
Pip and Nanny’s mother is an angel in heaven. A Christmas story.
Author(s):
Ferenc Molnár
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Cuckoo (1942)
Born in a titmouse’s nest, the cuckoo is too large to get through the opening, but Francis hears its cry and helps it out.
Author(s):
Lily Duplaix
Lida
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
The Four-Story Mistake (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Fun and Frolic (1942)
This reader for the early grades is a collection of short stories and poems.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Rachel Field
Rose Fyleman
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Emma L. Brock
Henrietta’s House (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Lorna R. Steele
How the Baby Hippo Found a Home (1942)
One morning Mr. and Mrs. Hippo find a baby in a basket by their front door. Mr. Hippo decides to keep the little boy whose name is Hi-Po.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Larry and the Undersea Raider (1942)
Set in Hawaii, a naval officer’s son discovers an enemy sub.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
P. K. Jackson
Missee Lee (1942)
The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
Paddy’s Christmas (1942)
A young bear wakes up in midwinter and discovers Christmas.
Author(s):
Helen Albee Monsell
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Shadow in the Pines (1942)
Ted Winslow helps the U.S. Army round up a gang of fifth columnists targeting Fort Dix.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton