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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Little Leopard and His Fat Stomach (1948)
The father leopard gets his nose slapped by the porcupine’s tail, but the little leopard finds a nice bone, with the meat still on it.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Magic Bus (1948)
Author(s):
Maurice Dolbier
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
My Father’s Dragon (1948)
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
A Name for Kitty (1948)
The boy has a new kitten. Now he needs a name for her.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
New Treasure Seekers (1948)
Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel (1948)
Nicholas and his friend help save the train when the engineer and fireman are laid low by poisoned tea.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Now It’s Fall (1948)
A poem and pictures about the joys of fall.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Otterbury Incident (1948)
Author(s):
C. Day Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Paul the Hero of the Fire (1948)
Paul runs away to join the carnival to help support his family. When a fire strikes, he leads the children to safety.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
River of the Wolves (1948)
Dave Foster is captured during the French and Indian Wars and taken captive to Canada. After spending a winter learning the Indian ways, he escapes and makes his way home to Maine.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Rose and the Ring (1948)
A complicated tale of two princesses and two princes and the Fairy Blackstick.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
William Makepeace Thackeray
Seabird (1948)
The Seabird follows the history of American seafaring.
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Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1948)
The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
This Little Giraffe Wants to Play (1948)
The little giraffe is lonely, but then his mother and father show him his new baby sister.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Tiger Kitten’s Poor, Poor Tail (1948)
The baby tiger was exploring and got stuck in a hollow log.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Tiny Animal Stories (1948)
Twelve tiny Little Golden Books about animal babies and their families.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Treasure Island (1948)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. This is a much abbreviated edition.
Author(s):
Haydn Perry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Two Stuck-in-the-Mud Rhinoceroses (1948)
When they fall asleep after their mud-bath the mother rhinoceros and her baby get stuck when the sun hardens the mud.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Wait Till the Moon Is Full (1948)
When the moon is full the little raccoon comes out to play.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams