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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:
Son of the Black Stallion (1947)
Alec Ramsay receives the Black’s first foal, a colt named Satan.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Milton Menasco
Song of Robin Hood (1947)
Author(s):
Grace Castagnetta
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
The Works of Sir Thomas Malory (1947)
Author(s):
Sir Thomas Malory
Illustrator(s):
None
Daughter of the Mountains (1948)
Momo undertakes a dangerous journey from the mountains of Tibet to the city of Calcutta, in search of her stolen dog Pempa.
Author(s):
Louise Rankin
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Five Little Firemen (1948)
“The finest fire is the fire that’s out,” sing the five little firemen. Later editions have fewer pages.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Gaston and Joséphine (1948)
Tells of the adventures of two French pigs who visit America.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Invisible Island (1948)
The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Island Stallion (1948)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Keith Ward
Kidnapped (1948)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Little Black Sambo (1948)
The classic story of a little Indian boy who turns the tables on a tiger who wants to eat him for breakfast. Later editions are much shortened.
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
My Father’s Dragon (1948)
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
The Otterbury Incident (1948)
Author(s):
C. Day Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Racundra’s First Cruise (1948)
A account of the author’s cruise in the Baltic on a small two masted yacht with his wife (former secretary to Lenin) and a local seaman, the prototype of Peter Duck.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Arthur Ransome
River of the Wolves (1948)
Dave Foster is captured during the French and Indian Wars and taken captive to Canada. After spending a winter learning the Indian ways, he escapes and makes his way home to Maine.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Robin Hood (1948)
This version of the Robin Hood legends was first published in 1912.
Author(s):
Henry Gilbert
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Rose and the Ring (1948)
A complicated tale of two princesses and two princes and the Fairy Blackstick.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
William Makepeace Thackeray
Seabird (1948)
The Seabird follows the history of American seafaring.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Treasure Island (1948)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. This is a much abbreviated edition.
Author(s):
Haydn Perry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Twenty-One Balloons (1948)
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
The Wild Wild West (1948)
A narrative poem featuring characters from the old west.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty