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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:
The Little Trapper (1950)
The little trapper gets trapped.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Andrew Wyeth
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
The future admiral begins his career in the Justinian and is seasick off Spithead.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
Pirates, Ships, and Sailors (1950)
The first edition includes forty-two stories, poems and songs. Later editions had only twenty-six or twenty-four. They all have to do with the sea and sailors.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Quest in the Desert (1950)
An American scientific expedition to explore the Gobi Desert faces many dangers, but survives with the help of the leader's dog and a friendly Mongolian ruler.
Author(s):
Roy Chapman Andrews
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1950)
Richard Hannay has returned to England from Rhodesia and is immediately embroiled in a German plot to steal British military secrets.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A Town Like Alice (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Whaler ’Round the Horn (1950)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1950)
The adventures of a fourteen year old boy who has been turned into a tomten - a Swedish elf- and set off on the back of a goose to see the sights of Sweden.
Author(s):
Selma Lagerlöf
Illustrator(s):
Hans Baumhauer
The Adventures of Benjamin Pink (1951)
Author(s):
Garth Williams
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Calico the Wonder Horse: or, The Saga of Stewy Stinker (1951)
A Christmas story about a cow horse and a bad man. The illustrations were redrawn for this second edition.
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Christopher and the Columbus (1951)
The captain and crew of the ferry boat Columbus rescue three castaways.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Comanche (1951)
This is the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn as seen by the sole surviving participant on the American side, Captain Miles Keogh’s horse, Comanche.
Author(s):
David Appel
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Comet in Moominland (1951)
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
The Defender (1951)
Turgen takes pity on the mountain sheep during a hard winter.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Claire Louden
George Louden, Jr.
Dinny and Danny (1951)
The adventures of Danny and his pet dinosaur, Dinny.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Dragons of Blueland (1951)
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
Five Boys in a Cave (1951)
John Walters and the members of the Tomahawk Club undertake the exploration of a cave he has discovered.
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
Doug Anderson
Freddy Goes to the North Pole (1951)
Author(s):
Walter R. Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Ginger Pye (1951)
When their new puppy, Ginger, disappears the Pye’s suspect the man in the yellow hat may be the thief.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Eleanor Estes