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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Islanders (1950)
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children (1950)
Evacuated from London during the Blitz, the four Pevensie children discover a new world in the wardrobe in the spare room - Narnia.
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Little Benny Wanted a Pony (1950)
Benny want’s pony but he has to get rid of his frown first. A mask was included in the original book.
Author(s):
Oliver Barrett
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Little Men (1950)
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Little Trapper (1950)
The little trapper gets trapped.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
Now We Are Six (1950)
More poems about Christopher Robin and his friends. This edition was reset and the illustrations re-engraved.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Peter Graves (1950)
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Pippi Longstocking (1950)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1950)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions had only twenty-six or twenty-four. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Prince and the Porker (1950)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Smeller Martin (1950)
Davey Martin is known to his friends as Smeller because of his keen sense of smell. He puts this gift to good use in this story of a summer of adventure.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Trees Kneel at Christmas (1950)
Afify and Hanna go to Prospect Park on Christmas Eve to see the trees kneel. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Howe
Whaler ’Round the Horn (1950)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
When We Were Very Young (1950)
This book of poems, originally published in Punch, introduced Christopher Robin and Edward (Winnie-the-Pooh) Bear.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Winnie-the-Pooh (1950)
The first collection of stories about Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and their friends in the Hundred Acre Woods. The type was reset and the illustrations recut for this edition.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1950)
The adventures of a fourteen year old boy who has been turned into a tomten - a Swedish elf- and set off on the back of a goose to see the sights of Sweden.
Author(s):
Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s):
Hans Baumhauer
Albert’s Zoo a Stencil Book (1951)
Use the stencils to help Albert put the animals in their cages.
Author(s):
Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
All Falling Down (1951)
A child’s-eye view of things that fall down - or don’t.
Author(s):
Gene Zion
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Bloy Graham