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Boys Growing Up Genre

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Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:

Bob Son of Battle (1898)

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Two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep with the son of one caught between. Published in the U.K. under the title Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir. ... View More

Author(s): Alfred Ollivant
Illustrator(s): Marguerite Kirmse

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Dream Days (1898)

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This is the second volume of Kenneth Grahame’s reminiscences of childhood and includes his story The Reluctant Dragon. There were at least three variant bindings of the British first edition. The American first edition was slightly smaller form... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Charles Robinson

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No Thoroughfare (1898)

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Based on a stage play co-written with Wilkie Collins, this is the story of two orphans given the same name and the search for a missing heir. The title page by Bedford; frontis by Goodman.... View More

Author(s): Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): F. D. Bedford
A. Jules Goodman

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Boy Life on the Prairie (1899)

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An account of growing up on an Iowa farm shortly after the Civil War. Considered by many the author’s best work and one of the outstanding accounts of growing up in the Midwest in the nineteenth century. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hamlin Garland
Illustrator(s): Edwin Willard Deming

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The Golden Age (1899)

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This is a collection of stories and reminiscences of Kenneth Grahame’s childhood. This is the first edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The plates were reproduced in half-tone as the publisher was not happy with the color reproducti... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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The Golden Age (1899)

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This is a collection of stories and reminiscences of Kenneth Grahame’s childhood. This is the first edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The plates were reproduced in half-tone as the publisher was not happy with the color reproducti... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899)

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This is the first edition of the famous story of the little boy who outwits the tigers and has pancakes and butter as his reward. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s): Helen Bannerman

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1899)

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The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne

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A Little Handful (1900)

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Story of a six year old boy who will get his own way.

Author(s): Harriet J. Scripps
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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The Argonauts of the Amazon (1901)

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Three friends procure a steam launch to search the upper reaches of the Amazon for the Inca’s treasure. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): C. R. Kenyon
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Dot and Tot of Merryland (1901)

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Neighbors Dot and Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a magic fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): W. W. Denslow

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Kim (1901)

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Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): John Lockwood Kipling

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Kim (1901)

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Kim O’Hara grows up unsupervised in British India and is recruited into the secret service. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): John Lockwood Kipling

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The Master Key (1901)

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When Rob strikes the Master Key, the demon of electricity appears to ply him with wondrous electrical inventions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Fanny Y. Cory

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901)

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This is the first privately-printed edition with black-and-white only illustrations. Read online at wikisource.

Author(s): Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s): Beatrix Potter

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The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

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After being sent to the country “to learn to be good,” the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Arthur H. Buckland
John Hassall
Et al

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The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)

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After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Reginald Birch

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The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

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Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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The Book of Romance (1902)

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A collection of romances, chiefly from the Arthurian cycle. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s): H. J. Ford

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Dream Days (1902)

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This is the second volume of Kenneth Grahame’s reminiscences of childhood. It includes the well known story of The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations by Maxfield Parrish were in color and so printed in the periodical printing in The Illustrate... View More

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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