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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 Song of Roland (1961)
The great French romance, here in a verse translation.
Author(s):
Hilda Cummings Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Tinker and Tanker and the Pirates (1961)
Adventure on the high seas with the adventuresome rabbit and his hippo friend.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Tinker and Tanker and Their Space Ship (1961)
The intrepid rabbit and his hippo friend are off to explore the stratosphere.
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Tinker and Tanker Journey to Tootletown and Build a Spaceship (1961)
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Year of the Shining Cuckoo (1961)
Johnny sets out to earn enough money to buy a horse. The story is set in a remote seaside town in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Boundary Riders (1962)
Three Australian children set out to check the boundary fences and cross over to investigate a waterfall.
Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Horder
Cutlass Island (1962)
Author(s):
Scott Corbett
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Shortall
Hills End (1962)
Author(s):
Ivan Southall
Illustrator(s):
Elisabeth Grant
Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
Hornblower takes up his command as part of the Channel fleet.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
David Cobb
Hornblower and the Hotspur (1962)
Hornblower takes up his command as part of the Channel fleet.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
John Allan Maxwell
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1962)
A retelling of the story of King Arthur and his Knights.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Barbara Lindsay
Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Phantom of the Blockade (1962)
Anse O’Neal signs on aboard the Gray Witch as she carries Southern cotton to Bermuda to exchange for guns and ammunition for Lee’s Army of Virginia.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Victor Mays
Sailor Rumbelow and Other Stories (1962)
A collection of stories new and old. This edition includes five additional stories from Pigeons and Princesses.
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Seven Crystal Balls (1962)
The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs (1962)
When Huck stops at the hot springs to retrieve his shirt, an ancient creature steals his banana right out of his hand.
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
So Small (1962)
Author(s):
Ann Rand
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Three Musketeers (1962)
The adventures of Athos, Porthos and Aramis, with their young apprentice d’Artagnan.
Author(s):
Alexandre Dumas
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Tintin in Tibet (1962)
Tintin and Haddock travel to the Himalayas to search for his friend who is reported lost after a plane crash.
The Winged Watchman (1962)
The story of a Dutch family during the German occupation in World War II.
Read online at archivie.org.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man (1963)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey