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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:
Red Rackham’s Treasure (1959)
The Secret of the Unicorn (1959)
The Voyage of the Javelin (1959)
In 1854 Bob Wingate signs on as ship’s boy on the extreme clipper Javelin for a voyage to San Francisco ’round the Horn, then on to China and the annual tea race to London Docks.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
Wild Pony Island (1959)
When Rick Landon comes to the attention of the law. his mother decides to move the family back to her home town - Ocracoke Island.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
The Bells of Rye (1960)
French marauders steal the church bells from Rye. John Finch and his friend Mark Cundy are determined to bring them back again.
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hubbard
Best in Children’s Books Volume 39 (1960)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
The Black Stallion and Flame (1960)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
Buffalo and Beaver (1960)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Charles Beck
The Calculus Affair (1960)
Castaways in Lilliput (1960)
When Peggy, Jim and Ralph wash up on the shore of a desert island, the last thing they expect to find are inhabitants no larger than a man’s hand.
Author(s):
Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s):
William M. Hutchinson
The Cowboy Twins (1960)
The Cowboy twins set out for their ranch in Oklahoma.
Author(s):
Florence Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Don Quixote: Some of His Adventures (1960)
Here are presented some of the most famous adventures of that ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Author(s):
Mary Irene Cathcart Borer
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Flute Player of Beppu (1960)
Author(s):
Kathryn Gallant
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Island Mackenzie (1960)
When Mackenzie is washed up on a desert island he is unaware that it is also the refuge of a cat-hating woman.
Author(s):
Ursula Moray Williams
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960)
The story of an Indian girl named Karana who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast.
Author(s):
Scott O’Dell
Illustrator(s):
Evaline Ness
Kidnappers at Coombe (1960)
Jane and Tim Cooper and their friends the Maitlands are off on a holiday adventure in Devonshire.
Author(s):
Joan Ballantyne
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Kingdom of Carbonel (1960)
When Carbonel must make his visitation to the Great Cat King, he leaves his two royal kittens under the protection of Rosemary and John who have almost more than they can manage to keep them safe.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
D. Michael Leonard
The Pinkertons Ride Again (1960)
When Steve and Sim overhear the plotting of two would-be train robbers, no one will believe them - so they take matters into their own hands.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
Al Colby
George Conradsen
The Red Sea Sharks (1960)
Robinson Crusoe (1960)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Anne Terry White
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky