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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Hippolyte-Crab King (1956)
A young boy in Trinidad must find a way to make a costume for Carnival.
Author(s):
Joy Anderson
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1956)
Orphaned Henry Esmond is brought up by his Jacobite relations, the Castlewoods.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
If I Ran the Circus (1956)
Island in the Bay (1956)
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
The Islanders (1956)
“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the second English edition and first American edition with illustrations by Ernest Shepard.
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Knight’s Castle (1956)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Last Battle (1956)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Little Fish that Got Away (1956)
If you want to catch fish you have to be patient.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Bernadine Cook
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Madeline and the Bad Hat (1956)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
One Is Good But Two Are Better (1956)
It’s more fun to do things with a friend -- or even a brother or sister!
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Patchwork Quilt (1956)
Four children, a grandmother and a quilt.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shillabeer
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1956)
The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Pippi Goes Aboard (1956)
Further adventures of the strongest girl in the world and her friends Tommy and Annika.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Richard Kennedy
Sabre Pilot (1956)
Kirk Owen signs up for the Air Force and is assigned to mechanic’s school where he trains on the F-86 jet fighter. When he gets a chance to attend pilot’s training he jumps at it and winds up fighting in the skies over North Korea.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John Polgreen
The Secret Garden (1956)
An Anglo-Indian orphan girl and and an English invalid find their cure in a garden.
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby (1956)
On another lavender blue day Anna Lavinia explores dew pond hill and travels through the dew pond to meet her cousin Toby.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
Song of the Wheels (1956)
Set in the Hudson River valley in the early eighteenth century, this is the story of a young man who fights to release his father from debtor's prison.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Story of a Bad Boy (1956)
Author(s):
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s):
Roberta Moynihan
Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (1956)
David and Chuck take Theo Bass, Tyco Bass’s cousin, to the Mushroom Planet, unaware that a young astronomy professor has stowed away on board.
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Robert Henneberger
Susan, Bill and the Dark Stranger (1956)
While Christmas shopping Susan and Bill meet a young boy who is being pursued by thugs who want his special box.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard