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Boys Growing Up Genre
Books in the Boys Growing Up genre:
Too Steep for Baseball (1964)
Their farm is too steep to play baseball, so the boys take up climbing.
Author(s):
Arthur Donald Stapp
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Under the Sun (1964)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles from Elizabethan magazine and other sources.
Author(s):
John Verney
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Quentin Blake
C. Walter Hodges
Ronald Searle
John Verney
Brian Wildsmith
Et al
We Wonder What Will Walter Be? When He Grows Up (1964)
Walter seeks advice on his future career, but doesn’t like it.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
The Animal Garden (1965)
Roy and Joy would like a pet, but their parents are allergic - until Abidan Allseed gives them some vegetable pets.
Author(s):
Ogden Nash
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue (1965)
A pair of kidnappers break in on the war between the White Roses - Bill Bergson, Anders Bengtsson, and Eva-Lotta Lisander - and the Red Roses.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Don Freeman
The Black Buccaneer (1965)
While guarding sheep on an island off the coast of Maine, Jeremy is kidnapped by pirates and taken to the West Indies.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Edward Shenton
Boy with a Pack (1965)
Bill Crawford sets out from New Hampshire with a peddlar’s pack for the Ohio country.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Castle of Yew (1965)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
Gordy and the Pirate (1965)
Gordy turns down many opportunities for adventure on his way home from school.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
The Grange at High Force (1965)
Three English boys and a retired admiral solve the mystery of the missing Lady statue.
Author(s):
Philip Turner
Illustrator(s):
William Papas
Henry’s Dog Henry (1965)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Aldren A. Watson
The Horse that Swam Away (1965)
A boy and his horse befriend a porpoise.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Leo Summers
The House by the River (1965)
Steve and Sim head down the river and end up at Villa Louis in Prairie du Chien where they encounter some crooks and spend a night in jail.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The King's Beard (1965)
Sixteen year old John Forrester sails with Sir Francis Drake in his daring raid on Cadiz.
Author(s):
Leonard Wibberley
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Long Trains Roll (1965)
Randy MacDougal stumbles on evidence of a sabotage ring aimed at the trains passing through Calico Gap and contacts the FBI.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Lucinda’s Year of Jubilo (1965)
With their father’s death and the failure of the family firm, the Wymans retreat to Maine to regroup.
Author(s):
Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s):
Shirley Hughes
Mrs. Coverlet’s Detectives (1965)
Nervous the cat has been catnapped, so the Persevers are off to New York to rescue him.
Author(s):
Mary Nash
Illustrator(s):
Garret Price
The Old Nurse’s Stocking Basket (1965)
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Open the Doors (1965)
An anthology of stories.
Phantom of the Blockade (1965)
Anse O’Neal signs on aboard the Gray Witch as she carries Southern cotton to Bermuda to exchange for guns and ammunition for Lee’s Army of Virginia.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Victor Mays