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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:
Best in Children’s Books Volume 20 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 23 (1959)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Rose Fyleman
Gladys Schwarcz
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Vladimir Bobritski
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 27 (1959)
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Daniel Defoe
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Grace Paull
Edward Shenton
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 28 (1959)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Best in Children’s Books Volume 42 (1959)
The Bombard (1959)
David Onny and his friends serve as bombardiers under the Black Prince.
Author(s):
Henry Treece
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Destination Moon (1959)
Esmeralda Ahoy! (1959)
Four children in a sailboat on the Thames.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Fairholme
Pamela Powell
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Exploits of Don Quixote (1959)
The most famous exploits of the muddle-headed Don for younger readers.
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Author(s):
Miguel de Cervantes
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Explorers on the Moon (1959)
Friday’s Tunnel (1959)
A mystery involving February and her brother Friday, who is digging a tunnel in the back yard and the large Callendar family and something to do with international intrigue.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Hunting the Bismarck (1959)
The most powerful battle ship in the world sorties into the North Sea in a desperate attempt to reach Nazi controlled France.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Kenneth Farnhill
Land of Black Gold (1959)
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck (1959)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Lord Jim (1959)
Driven from the sea by a youthful act of cowardice and betrayal, Jim makes a new life for himself, but is again faced with a life and death decision on which hinges the fate of many innocents.
Author(s):
Joseph Conrad
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Madeline and the Gypsies (1959)
Pepito persuades Madeline to run away with a gypsy circus.
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Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Martin’s Dinosaur (1959)
Martin’s education has been neglected and he doesn’t recognize a dragon when he sees one.
Author(s):
Reda Davis
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Mill Creek Irregulars: Special Detectives (1959)
Steve and Sim look into the strange goings on at a neighboring farm and spend their first night in jail.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Everett Raymond Kinstler
My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Sam Gribley takes to the woods and lives by himself for a year.
Author(s):
Jean Craighead George
Illustrator(s):
Jean Craighead George