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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 Children’s Hour Volume 5 (1953)
The Children’s Hour Volume 9 (1953)
An collection of stories from many lands.
Read online at archive.org.
A Child’s First Book of Nature Adventures (1953)
Three stories, including Trouble at Beaver Dam illustrated by Rojankovsky.
Author(s):
Florence E. Matthews
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Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
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The Giant Golden Book of Cat Stories (1953)
A collection of thirty-five stories and poems about cats.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Giant Golden Book of Dog Stories (1953)
Thirty-one original stories and poems about dogs.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Henrietta of St. Hilary's (1953)
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
None
Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Ralph Pallen Coleman
Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)
How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.
Author(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Marlows and the Traitor (1953)
The four younger Marlows and their mother are spending the Easter holidays by the sea when they stumble on a spy.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Doritie Kettlewell
My Friend Yakub (1953)
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Tim in Danger (1953)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (1954)
The war of the White Roses and the Red becomes tangled up in a murder mystery.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Don Freeman
The Black Stallion’s Sulky Colt (1954)
When Tom Messenger is injured in an accident, it’s up to Alec Ramsay and Henry to race Bonfire in the Hambletonian.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
The Buckboard Stranger (1954)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Paul Calle
The Fantastic Tale of the Plucky Sailor and the Postage Stamp (1954)
The exploits of an intrepid sailor who goes to great lengths to help an old lady.
Author(s):
Stephen Corrin
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Half Magic (1954)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The High World (1954)
A novel about life in the Tyrol between the world wars.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Horse and His Boy (1954)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Horse Stories (1954)
Stories and poems about horses.
Author(s):
Kate Barnes
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky