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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Princess and the Goblin (1951)
The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Quarry Adventure (1951)
Lauri takes a job as handyman for Miss Pinkney and ends up looking after her niece Garnet.
Author(s):
Lee Kingman
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
Red Head (1951)
Fritz had hair of a beautiful red,
Not auburn, or ginger, or sandy, but red.
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Rob Whitlock: A Pioneer Boy in Old Ohio (1951)
Day-to-day frontier life in Ohio.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
The Saucepan Journey (1951)
Author(s):
Edith Unnerstad
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (1951)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Strong Wings (1951)
Three siblings winter in a Maine fishing village while their parents are in Europe.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Three Golden Nobles (1951)
In fourteenth-century England, a young serf acheives his dream of becoming a King's painter.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Tim and Charlotte (1951)
Author(s):
E. Powys Mathers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Two Little Gardeners (1951)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Elliott
Wish on the Moon (1951)
A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (1952)
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Biggest Bear (1952)
Bill Bergson, Master Detective (1952)
The first battles of the War of the White Roses and the Red are interrupted by a mysterious Uncle.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
The Black Stallion’s Filly (1952)
Black Minx, daughter of the Black, has been spoiled - can Henry and Alec get her ready to race in the Derby?
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Milton Menasco
The Boy Mechanic: A Completely New and Revised Edition by the Editors of Popular Mechanics (1952)
This harks back to a series of volumes of the same name dating back to the teens of the twentieth century.
Author(s):
Popular Mechanics Co.
Illustrator(s):
Popular Mechanics Co.
A Child’s Good Morning (1952)
A celebration of getting up in the morning.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Jean Charlot
The Colonel’s Squad (1952)
A fictional account of an American Army Colonel who brings five Russian orphans home with him to America.
Author(s):
Alf Evers
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell