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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 Prince and the Pauper (1954)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Roads to Adventure (1954)
An anthology of adventure stories.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Astrid Lindgren
Willis Lindquist
Marie McSwigan
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Et al
The Sign of the Seven Seas (1954)
Author(s):
Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Susan, Bill and the Ivy-Clad Oak (1954)
In their second adventure Susan and Bill help to run a new cricket team set up by their friend the Colonel.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Susan, Bill and the Wolf Dog (1954)
Susan moves to a new house and meets Bill and the crusty old Colonel and his wolf-dog.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Wheel on the School (1954)
Overcoming many obstacles, a group of children work together with their Dutch village to bring the storks back.
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1954)
David and Chuck are approached by their neighbor Mr. Bass to build a space ship.
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Robert Henneberger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955)
Huck is running away from his drunken father, Jim from an abusive master so they head down the Mississippi on a raft. The Great American Novel.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
A Cabin for the Mary Christmas (1955)
Author(s):
Vera A. Amrein
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Carbonel The King of the Cats (1955)
When Rosemary buys a broom so she can earn money doing housework during the holidays, it comes with a royal cat and a spell.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
V. H. Drummond
Dragon Run (1955)
This time travel adventure takes Chris Mason and Mr. Wicker back to colonial days.
Author(s):
Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Good Shepherd (1955)
Commander George Krause is the shepherd who brings a convoy home across the Atlantic in the face of the German wolfpack.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
David Cobb
The Good Shepherd (1955)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
R. A. Genders
Guns for the Saratoga (1955)
Gideon Jones helps his father cast guns for the American Navy’s new sloop-of-war, then decides to join her crew to fight the British.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
The Island Stallion Races (1955)
With the help of an extraterrestrial visitor, Steve Duncan races Flame.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
The Journey of Johnny Rew (1955)
Orphaned by the war, Johnny learns that he might have family in the west of England and sets out in search of them.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Lemon and a Star (1955)
Four siblings grow up in New England in the early twentieth century.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s):
Prudence Seward
Moominsummer Madness (1955)
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
Mystery of Mont Saint-Michel (1955)
A group of French schoolmates explore the history of the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel.
Author(s):
Michel Rouzé
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Operation Wild Goose (1955)
The three Islanders, Pat, Nick and Toby, are on a salmon fishing expedition to Iceland when they stumble on a nest of spies.
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard