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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:
Captain Boldheart - The Magic Fishbone: Two Comedies (1964)
Captain Boldheart takes to piracy in despair of Latin grammar. The Princess Alicia for her part, sets matters to rights in her father’s kingdom with the aid of her fairy godmother Grandmarina.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Come into My Castle (1964)
An elementary reader intended for learners of English as a second language, this is a short story.
Author(s):
Robin Allan
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Dogs, Heroes, Adventurers, Friends (1964)
A collection of thirty favorite dog stories.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Rudyard Kipling
Ernest Thompson Seton
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Hamilton Greene
Gulliver’s Travels (1964)
Captain Lemuel Gulliver travels to various strange lands from the Lilliputian to the Brobdingnagnian.
Author(s):
Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Irregulars Strike Again (1964)
On a winter camping expedition the two boy detectives run into some skulduggery.
Author(s):
August Derleth
Illustrator(s):
George Wilson
ismo (1964)
The Callendar family are again caught up in international intrigue.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Magic Island (1964)
Author(s):
Madye Lee Chastain
Illustrator(s):
Madye Lee Chastain
Mr. Papadilly and Willy (1964)
Mr. Papadilly and Willy try to retire from the circus but can’t stay away from it.
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Author(s):
Florence Slobodkin
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Poison Belt (1964)
Professor Challenger, back from his exploration of The Lost World, discovers that the Earth is about to pass through a poisonous belt of gas, with possibly disastrous consequences.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
The Rout of the Ollafubs (1964)
This is the story of Skyboy and Littleflame and their adventures with the Ollafubs.
Author(s):
Katharine Greville Lethbridge
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Stranger on Big Hickory (1964)
Skip Rollins decides to join 4-H and pursue his hobby of wildlife photography.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Don Lambo
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1964)
A novel of adventure and intrigue in the run up to World War I. This marks the first appearance of Richard Hannay.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
A Thousand for Sicily (1964)
A young British journalist follows Garibaldi on his Sicilian campaign.
Author(s):
Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Too Steep for Baseball (1964)
Their farm is too steep to play baseball, so the boys take up climbing.
Author(s):
Arthur Donald Stapp
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Twenty and Ten (1964)
During the Occupation of France by the Germans in World War II, twenty children at a Catholic school hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis.
Author(s):
Claire Huchet Bishop
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Under the Sun (1964)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles from Elizabethan magazine and other sources.
Author(s):
John Verney
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Quentin Blake
C. Walter Hodges
Ronald Searle
John Verney
Brian Wildsmith
Et al
The Young Hornblower (1964)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue (1965)
A pair of kidnappers break in on the war between the White Roses - Bill Bergson, Anders Bengtsson, and Eva-Lotta Lisander - and the Red Roses.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Don Freeman
Boy with a Pack (1965)
Bill Crawford sets out from New Hampshire with a peddlar’s pack for the Ohio country.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Gordy and the Pirate (1965)
Gordy turns down many opportunities for adventure on his way home from school.
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Author(s):
Crockett Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson