Logging you in...
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:
Asterix the Gaul (1969)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
Asterix the Gladiator (1969)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
The Black Stallion’s Ghost (1969)
While between races at a Florida horse farm, Alex Ramsay and the Black meet the Ghost and her trainer and are caught up in a supernatural horror story.
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Angie Draper
Brave Johnny O’Hare (1969)
Brave Johnny O’Hare is a little Australian boy who is not afraid of anything, even the Bunyip, until one night …
Author(s):
Eleanor B. Heady
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Cape May Packet (1969)
Will Hand signs on to his father’s privateer during the War of 1812.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Robert Frankenberg
The Cat From Nowhere (1969)
When Negus, a sleek black cat settles at a small Swiss hotel he makes friends with a Story, a ten year old American girl.
Author(s):
Monica Stirling
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Envoy to New Worlds (1969)
Retief acts as a galactic diplomat to ensure the peace of the universe.
Author(s):
Keith Laumer
Illustrator(s):
Ed Emshwiller
The Far-Distant Oxus (1969)
Three children spend the summer holiday on Exmoor where they find ponies, friends and adventure. This is a somewhat shorter version of the original work. The original illustrations have also been dispensed with.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Karl W. Stuecklen
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
The Man in the Yellow Raft (1969)
A collection of eight short stories of men at war in World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Mystery of the Roman Ransom (1969)
When the seven Roman schoolboys try to give their teacher a slave, he will have none of it and the detectives in togas are plunged into another mystery.
Author(s):
Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Biermann
Richard Scarry’s Supermarket Mystery (1969)
Author(s):
Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Seven Sunflower Seeds (1969)
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1969)
Susan and Colin discover that the lost Weirstone hangs on her bracelet, and all the powers of evil are out to steal it. This is the revised edition.
Author(s):
Alan Garner
Illustrator(s):
Ron Bowen
Asterix the Legionary (1970)
Author(s):
René Goscinny
Illustrator(s):
Albert Uderzo
Bread and Butter Journey (1970)
Author(s):
Anne Colver
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Dick Whittington (1970)
“Turn again, Dick Whittington, thrice Lord Mayor of London Town. ”
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathleen Lines
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Gold From Crete (1970)
A collection of ten short stories set during World War II.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Samuel Bryant
Granny and the Desperadoes (1970)
The two desperadoes can’t resist granny’s apple pie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Peggy Parish
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
The Lark and the Laurel (1970)
Author(s):
Barbara Willard
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Jacket art