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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Corn Farm Boy (1954)
The life of an Iowa farm family.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Dream Days (1954)
Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of memories of childhood includes his story
The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations are new, not reprints of the 1930 edition and were never used in any British edition.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Go, Team, Go! (1954)
When the varsity players go on strike, it’s up to the JV to defend the school’s title at State.
Author(s):
John R. Tunis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Golden Age (1954)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Half Magic (1954)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The High World (1954)
A novel about life in the Tyrol between the world wars.
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Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
How to Make an Earthquake (1954)
A collection of activities to do at home.
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1954)
The Miggs family of mice find a baby kitten in their nest and decide to adopt him.
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Author(s):
Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Legions of the Eagle (1954)
The first Roman invasion of Britain.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Little Fir Tree (1954)
The little fir tree is dug up and comes to a little boy as a Christmas tree two years running, but the third year the little boy comes to him.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
A Little House of Your Own (1954)
Young children play at making their own house.
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Author(s):
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1954)
Son of an American mother and an English father, Cedric is called to England by his somewhat irascible grandfather to be his heir.
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Loudest Noise in the World (1954)
A prince asks his father the King for the loudest noise in the world for his birthday.
Author(s):
Benjamin Elkin
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Mimff Takes Over (1954)
Mimff and his family help a Hungarian refugee boy find his mother.
Author(s):
H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (1954)
The widow of a retired pirate has move to the country but is still providing cures for children with bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak
The New Runaway Home (1954)
This is Book 6 of the Alice and Jerry basic reader series. The Harding family pulls up stakes and moves to California.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Newcomes (1954)
A vast novel of the Victorian era that centers on Colonel Thomas Newcombe, his son Clive and their relations and friends. The Limited Editions Club version is in two volumes.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Pierre Bear (1954)
Pierre Bear lives in the North Woods with his family.
Author(s):
Patricia Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Prince and the Pauper (1954)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier