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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Bells of Leyden Sing (1944)
The story of the last year the Pilgrims spent in Holland before setting out for the Massachusetts Colony.
Author(s):
Catherine Cate Coblentz
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Big Fur Secret (1944)
A story about a trip to the zoo.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Robert de Veyrac
Boat Children of Canton (1944)
Author(s):
Marion B. Ward
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Down the Big River (1944)
Tom Lockwood and his parents are travelling down the Ohio River to take up land in Missouri when they are captured by pirates.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Egbert and His Marvelous Adventures (1944)
The extraordinary adventures of Egbert, who thinks nothing of bringing home a white elephant or a seal.
Author(s):
Paul T. Gilbert
Illustrator(s):
H. A. Rey
Let’s Play House (1944)
Molly, Polly and Peter play house.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1944)
Tim runs away to sea and has many adventures before he is safely at home again. This is the first paperback edition.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Long Trains Roll (1944)
Randy MacDougal stumbles on evidence of a sabotage ring aimed at the trains passing through Calico Gap and contacts the FBI.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Magic Michael (1944)
Michael likes to play Something-or-Other.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Melendy Family (1944)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Pierre Keeps Watch (1944)
A shepherd boy hides the village flocks from marauding Nazis.
Author(s):
Maria Gleit
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Puritan Adventure (1944)
A story about the daily life of the Puritans in Massachusetts in the 1630’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Then There Were Five (1944)
The four Melendys meet Mark, and then there are five.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Tim and Lucy Go to Sea (1944)
Tim and Lucy are invited to cruise on a yacht and are captured by mutineers.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Willie’s Walk to Grandmama (1944)
Willie has many adventures on his walk to Grandmama’s house.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Rockbridge Campbell
Illustrator(s):
Lucienne Bloch
Yea! Wildcats! (1944)
Don Henderson has his work cut out for him as the new basketball coach in a central Indiana town.
Author(s):
John R. Tunis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Young Man of the House (1944)
Nine year old Eben becomes the man of the house when his father is called up to fight in World War II.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Black Stallion Returns (1945)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
Brendon Chase (1945)
Three English boys, tired of ‘petticoat government,’ take to the woods.
Author(s):
BB
Illustrator(s):
Denys Watkins-Pitchford
The Burro of Barnegat Road (1945)
When Chula the burro comes from Mexico to Connecticut, at first no one is happy.
Author(s):
Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum