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Adventure Genre
Genre description for the 'Adventure' Genre. Full text description would go here to introduce the genre before showing a complete list of all the books in that genre.
Books in the Adventure genre:
Give a Man a Horse (1939)
Story of two young men riding through South America.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Illustrator(s):
Henry C. Pitz
Little Pig’s Picnic, and Other Stories (1939)
Ten stories based on Disney cartoons, including The Old Mill, the first to be shot on the multiplane camera.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Walt Disney Studio
Live and Kicking Ned (1939)
The further adventures of Ned Mansell aboard a slave ship on the African coast. This volume actually contains two separate novels: Live Ned or The Reef-Tackle and Kicking Ned or The Skysail or The Trust-to-God.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Live and Kicking Ned (1939)
The further adventures of Ned Mansell aboard a slave ship on the African coast. This volume actually contains two separate novels: Live Ned or The Reef-Tackle and Kicking Ned or The Skysail or The Trust-to-God.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Lost Lagoon (1939)
Seventeen-year-old Judd Anders was born and raised in Tahiti by his American parents. Unknown to him, Judd becomes involved in a scheme to find a fortune in gold which was on a ship sunk in the South Pacific during World War I.
Author(s):
Armstrong Sperry
Illustrator(s):
Armstrong Sperry
Mimff (1939)
Mimff has no fear so he runs away from home in search of it.
Author(s):
H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Oxus in Summer (1939)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
The Ship that Flew (1939)
Peter buys a model ship from an antique store for “all the money he has in the world -- and a little bit more” and discovers it can carry its owners through space and time.
Author(s):
Hilda Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Nora Lavrin
S.O.S. Geneva (1939)
Three young children whose homes have been destroyed when the Danube River floods, make their way to Geneva to get help from the United Nations.
Author(s):
Richard Plant
Oskar Seidlin
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1940)
Twain’s masterpiece illustrated by America’s master illustrator.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Norman Rockwell
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1940)
The puppet who wants to be a real boy.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The African Queen (1940)
In Central Africa of 1914, Rose Sayer buries her brother then sets out on a boat called the African Queen for the adventure of a lifetime. This edition restores the author’s original ending.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
None
The Bounty Trilogy (1940)
An omnibus edition of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn’s Island.
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Call It Courage (1940)
A story of a boy who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. This story is based on a Polynesian legend.
Author(s):
Armstrong Sperry
Illustrator(s):
Armstrong Sperry
Clear for Action! (1940)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Frank Beaudouin
The Earthly Paradise (1940)
A historical novel of the third voyage of Columbus.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Philip Gough
The Fair American (1940)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Fifi (1940)
While on an African safari, Fifi the poodle is captured by hostile natives.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
I Married Adventure: the lives of Martin and Osa Johnson (1940)
Author(s):
Osa Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont