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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back (1943)
The two first volumes of the Mary Poppins stories in one. In this edition some of the illustrations are in color.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Agnes Sims
Midnight and Jeremiah (1943)
Jeremiah raises Midnight, a black lamb to compete at the county fair. This book was made into a movie So Dear to My Heart in 1949.
Author(s):
Sterling North
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Mighty Hunter (1943)
The mighty hunter skips school to go hunting, but an encounter with a bear makes him decide that he should work on his education.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Missouri Canary (1943)
Chuck and Bob come to the aid of the U.S. Army with their mule, the Missouri Canary.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Mountain Born (1943)
Peter learns to be a shepherd under the tutelage of Old Benj.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Open Gate (1943)
When Mr. Preston makes a bid on a farm, he doesn’t know what he is getting into, but his family is happy he did.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
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The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at All (1943)
Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Rufus M. (1943)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Sea Snake (1943)
Barney Cannon stumbles on a German spy and discovers a hidden U-boat base in the Bahamas.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
SHHHhhhh. . . BANG: a whispering book (1943)
The people of Skyscraper Town had whispered for so long they forgot how wonderful noise can be.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Robert de Veyrac
The Storks Fly Home (1943)
The storks fly south as the Germans conquer Holland in the spring of 1940.
Author(s):
Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
They Came from France (1943)
Pierre settles his mother and siblings in New Orleans while his father continues to the California gold fields.
Author(s):
Clara Ingram Judson
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Tommy Helps, Too (1943)
Tommy participates in the war effort by recycling as we see his father and brothers in the armed forces.
Two Logs Crossing: John Haskell’s Story (1943)
At sixteen John Haskell is suddenly the man of his family and makes good.
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Author(s):
Walter D. Edmonds
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Animals, Plants and Machines (1944)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Edith Newlin
Illustrator(s):
Clare Bice
Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley (1944)
Further adventures of five year old Barnaby and his fairy godfather Jackeen J. O’Malley.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Belinda the Mouse (1944)
Peter and Judy have an almost-grown-up older sister, who does not appreciate it when they play with her things.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Belinda the Mouse and Peggy and the Pup (1944)
Two stories in one volume.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell