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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 Golden Grab Bag of Stories, Poems and Songs (1951)
A nice compendium of stories, poems and songs.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Island Stallion’s Fury (1951)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
A Long Way to Frisco (1951)
A nineteenth century pig drive on the west coast.
Author(s):
Alfred Powers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Minn of the Mississippi (1951)
We see the Mississippi River through the eyes of a snapping turtle.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Moon Ahead (1951)
Noel and Sam stow away on the first British Empire-American Moon Society rocket, and then the adventure begins.
Author(s):
William Pène du Bois
Leslie Greener
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Of Courage Undaunted (1951)
The story of the exploration of the West by the Corps of Discovery.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Peter Pan (1951)
The story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, his foster mother Wendy, and his great adversary James Hook.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Princess and the Goblin (1951)
The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
The Saucepan Journey (1951)
Author(s):
Edith Unnerstad
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Tim and Charlotte (1951)
Author(s):
E. Powys Mathers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Train to Timbuctoo (1951)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Art Seiden
Trappers and Traders of the Far West (1951)
A history of J. J. Astor’s Pacific Fur Company, which operated in the Pacific Northwest.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Wish on the Moon (1951)
A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Betsy and the Great World (1952)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Bill Bergson, Master Detective (1952)
The first battles of the War of the White Roses and the Red are interrupted by a mysterious Uncle.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
The Black Stallion’s Filly (1952)
Black Minx, daughter of the Black, has been spoiled - can Henry and Alec get her ready to race in the Derby?
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Milton Menasco
Brother Dusty Feet (1952)
Author(s):
Rosemary Sutcliff
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Children of the Blizzard (1952)
A novel about the Eskimos of Baffin Island.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anuata Blackmore
Heluiz Washburne
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Edward, Hoppy, and Joe (1952)
An inquisitive little rabbit named Edward and his friends Hoppy Toad and Joe Possum learn about automobiles, canoeing, roller skating, the circus and other things important to the safety and pleasure of growing animals.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson