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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
The Year of the Shining Cuckoo (1961)
Johnny sets out to earn enough money to buy a horse. The story is set in a remote seaside town in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Boundary Riders (1962)
Three Australian children set out to check the boundary fences and cross over to investigate a waterfall.
Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Horder
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 10 (1962)
Eighteen selections from classic novels.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 5 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in America.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 9 (1962)
Seventeen selections from adventure novels.
David Copperfield (1962)
This is a newly illustrated version of Dickens’ autobiographical magnum opus.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Diamond in the Window (1962)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Drawn from Life (1962)
Author(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Dusty and the Fiddlers (1962)
Dusty invites a family of itinerant fiddlers to perform in his family’s barn, and incidentally helps end a neighborly quarrel.
Author(s):
Miska Miles
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Fun and Fancy (1962)
An anthology of children’s literature.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
P. L. Travers
Louis Untermeyer
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Lilian Obligado
Mary Shepard
Et al
Great Expectations (1962)
This edition has been slightly shortened to concentrate on the story of Pip and his relationship to his great patron.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Ronald Searle
Hi, Tom (1962)
Author(s):
Nanda Ward
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Hills End (1962)
Author(s):
Ivan Southall
Illustrator(s):
Elisabeth Grant
J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: The Story of the Play (1962)
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Jeremiah Octopus (1962)
Jeremiah goes to look for his mother’s lost oranges.
Author(s):
Margaret Stone Zilboorg
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Juan Bobo and the Queen's Necklace (1962)
When the Queen's necklace goes missing, simple Juan Bobo tracks it down.
Author(s):
Pura Belpré
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Little Antelope: An Indian for a Day (1962)
Johnny visits the American Museum of Natural History and imagines what it would be like to be an Indian in the olden days.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Little Old Bear (1962)
An abandoned teddy bear finds a new home.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Man o’ War (1962)
A fictionalized biography of America’s greatest race horse.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
Mary Poppins from A to Z (1962)
Twenty-six short stories about the denizens of Cherry Tree Lane.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard