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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Secret of the Old House: A Story for Children (1890)
A brother and sister, on a visit to their grandmother, explore the abandoned house in the neighborhood and meet its ghostly inhabitant.
Author(s):
Evelyn Everett-Green
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Nurse Heatherdale’s Story (1891)
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Girls and I: A Veracious History (1892)
The adventures of a boy and his four sisters. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Men of Iron (1892)
A tale of Henry IV of England and his court. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
A Modern Aladdin or the Wonderful Adventures of Oliver Munier (1892)
The hero meets the 18th century polymath and adventurer the Comte de St.-Germaine. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Howard Pyle
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
The Story of a Puppet (1892)
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Enrico Mazzanti
Catriona: A Sequel to “Kidnapped” Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad (1893)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
None
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1893)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
None
A Hit and a Miss (1893)
Making a great impression is not all it is made out to be, in this story of a gang of children in a park.
Author(s):
Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Mary: A Nursery Story for Very Little Children (1893)
Mary is four and cannot remember how old she was when she learned to read. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Mrs. Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Penelope and the Others (1893)
The adventures of five children who live in the English countryside. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Amy Walton
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Peterkin Papers (1893)
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893)
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Browne
The Jungle Book (1894)
Seven stories, including three about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
W. H. Drake
Paul Frenzeny
John Lockwood Kipling
The Jungle Book (1894)
Seven stories, including three about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
W. H. Drake
John Lockwood Kipling
Pagan Papers (1894)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Aubrey Beardsley
Pudd’nhead Wilson a Tale (1894)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
James Mapes Dodge
Louis Loeb
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
Tom, Huck and Jim embark on an airship and travel to North Africa. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Dan Beard
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
F. M. Senior
C. H. Warren
“Captains Courageous” A Story of the Grand Banks (1895)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
John Lockwood Kipling