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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Rib of the Green Umbrella (1960)
It’s 1944 and in a small town in Italy the children are aiding the partisans battle the occupying Germans.
Author(s):
Naomi Mitchison
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Sea Broke Through (1960)
A storm passes through Holland and the dikes break. This is the story of the men, women, boys and girls who responded to the emergency.
Author(s):
Ardo Flakkeberg
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Shan’s Lucky Knife (1960)
A Burmese folktale about a boy from the hills who outwits the owner of the ship.
Author(s):
Jean Merrill
Illustrator(s):
Ronni Solbert
The Story of Samuel and Saul (1960)
The story of the prophet and the first King of Israel.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Story of the Amulet (1960)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Terrible, Horrible Edie (1960)
Author(s):
E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Treasury of Little Golden Books (1960)
Forty-eight stories from favorite Little Golden Books.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Up High and Down Low (1960)
A mountain goat and a lamb trade places for a day, but find themselves out of place and are happy to return home.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
We Live in the Country (1960)
Short stories about children who live on different types of farms, including a tree farm, a cotton farm, a chicken farm and a sheep ranch.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
When I Grow Up (1960)
A song for a boy and a song for a girl about what they might become when they grow up. A Read-and-Sing book.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Winnie Ille Pu (1960)
The adventures of Pooh Bear, Christopher Robin and their friends rendered into Latin.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1961)
Set along the Mississippi River, this book traces the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jim, a fugitive slave. The Great American Novel.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1961)
In the 1840s a mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid, in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Anyone Can Live off the Land (1961)
How to stay warm in the wilderness, fish without tackle, quench your thirst, avoid getting lost, and build a shelter.
Author(s):
James Ralph Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Big and Little Creatures (1961)
An anthology of material from the Little Golden Books series.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
Et al
The Book of Dragons (1961)
A collection of eight stories about dragons.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. Granville Fell
H. R. Millar
Boy Overboard! (1961)
Peter goes on his first voyage aboard the San Andres and has more adventures than he bargained for.
Author(s):
Captain George H. Grant
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
A Brand New Uncle (1961)
When Mr. and Mrs. Smith run away from their grandchildren, they soon find how much they miss them.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy