Logging you in...
British Genre
Books in the British genre:
The Far-Distant Oxus (1937)
A tale of ponies and adventure set on Exmoor. TEST
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
The Happy Return (1937)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Rowland Hilder
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937)
The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord Emsworth and Others (1937)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Lucy Brown and Mr Grimes (1937)
Young Lucy is befriended by Mr. Grimes.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Magic Hill and Other Stories (1937)
Six short stories by the author of Winnie the Pooh.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Pigeon Post (1937)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are prospecting for gold on High Topps, hoping to persuade Captain Flint to stay home as he returns from a South American gold prospecting trip.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Mary Shepard
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
Edward Prince of Wales trades places with poor Tom Canty for a lark, but finds it almost more than he can manage to trade back again. This is the Children's Bookshelf edition.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Princess and the Apple Tree: And Other Stories (1937)
Six short stories, mainly about young children, verging on nonsense.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Summer Moonshine (1937)
Joe wants to marry Jane and with the success of his play about his nasty stepmother sees his way clear, then the stepmother (a mittel european Princess) has the play pulled and Joe is left looking for a fairy godfather.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Herbert F. Roese
Sunset House (1937)
More adventures of two English expatriates in Provence.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Winifred Fortescue
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Tom, Dick and Harriet (1937)
A series of stories centered on a London pub.
Author(s):
A. Neil Lyons
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1937)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Cheddar Gorge (1938)
A collection of essays by different authors on British cheeses.
Author(s):
John Collings Squire
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Children by the Sea (1938)
Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
The Children Who Lived in a Barn (1938)
When their parents don’t return from a trip to Switzerland, the five Dunnet children have to fend for themselves.
Author(s):
Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s):
J. D. Evans
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Code of the Woosters (1938)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Dead Ned (1938)
Condemned to hang for a murder he did not commit, Ned Mansell is revived by his physician friends and smuggled on to a ship bound for Africa.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Unknown