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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

The Happy Orpheline (1957)

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Brigette gets left behind in the cemetery when the orphanage is on an outing and meets the wife of the Dauphin. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

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Harold’s Trip to the Sky (1957)

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Harold wanders off into the sky with the aid of his trusty purple crayon.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s): Crockett Johnson

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Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)

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A woman with a magic way of curing children’s bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

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King Oberon’s Forest (1957)

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The three dwarf brothers take in a fairy baby and their life is never the same again. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s): Brigid Marlin

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Magic by the Lake (1957)

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On a vacation with their mother and stepfather, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha find themselves overwhelmed with a lakeful of magical adventures after Mark captures an ancient turtle that seems to have extraordinary powers. Read online at archive.o... View More

Author(s): Edward Eager
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

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Melvin the Moose Child (1957)

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Melvin the moose child sets out for the North Woods to find another moose child to play with. Along the way he meets a beaver child, a deer child and a bear child. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the widow of a pirate who lives in a house built upside down. When worried mothers call her about Jane or Darci’s behavior problems, she always has a solution. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1957)

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle sometimes comes up with surprising cures for childrens’ problems. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Hilary Knight

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Pantaloni (1957)

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The story of a dog and his master.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s): Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich

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Pippi Goes On Board (1957)

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Further adventures of the strongest girl in the world and her friends Tommy and Annika.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Louis S. Glanzman

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Pippi in the South Seas (1957)

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Pippi’s father, the cannibal king, comes to visit and she in turn takes Tommy and Annika on a visit to his south sea island.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Louis S. Glanzman

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Pippi in the South Seas (1957)

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Pippi’s father, the cannibal king, comes to visit and she in turn takes Tommy and Annika on a visit to his south sea island.

Author(s): Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s): Richard Kennedy

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The Railway Children (1957)

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When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventual... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Lynton Lamb

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The School in Our Village (1957)

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Reminiscences of a rural English school.

Author(s): Joan M. Goldman
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

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Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Reindeer (1957)

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The triplets go with their parents on a visit to Lapland in this final book in the series.

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

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Songberd’s Grove (1957)

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A group of children resist a gang that is destroying their neighborhood.

Author(s): Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

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They Came From France (1957)

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Pierre looks after his mother and siblings in New Orleans while their father goes west to try his luck in the California gold fields.

Author(s): Clara Ingram Judson
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski
Kevin Royt

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The Warmhearted Polar Bear (1957)

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Whitey is a polar bear who is tamed by a ship’s crew and doesn’t want to go back to the rough life of the arctic -- so he heads for Florida.

Author(s): Robert Murphy
Illustrator(s): Louis Slobodkin

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The Wild Angel (1957)

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Hubert and Jane are sent to stay with Grandfather and go to school - for cause - and they give it.

Author(s): E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s): Charles Geer

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The World of Pooh (1957)

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An omnibus of Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner with additional color plates by E. H. Shepard. This is the dust jacket for the British edition. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

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