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Books in the British genre:

The Big Six (1941)

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Bill and Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to investigate the crimes and trap the real crim... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome

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Botany Bay (1941)

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Hugh Tallant, an American living in England is convicted of highway robbery and sent to the Australian penal colony in the ‘First Fleet.’ Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): James Norman Hall
Charles Nordhoff
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned (1941)

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An omnibus edition containing Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): None

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A Handy Dickens (1941)

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A potpourri of Dickens extracts.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

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Left Till Called For (1941)

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When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.

Author(s): Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s): Richard Floethe

Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal - 1941
Carnegie Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1941
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Missee Lee (1941)

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The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school. Read online at archive.org.&nb... View More

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome

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A Squirrel Called Rufus (1941)

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As all poets tend toward epic, Richard Church gives us the epic battle between the red squirrels and the grey. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Richard Church
Illustrator(s): John Skeaping

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We Couldn’t Leave Dinah (1941)

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When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.

Author(s): Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s): Stuart Tresilian

Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal - 1941
Carnegie Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1941
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Adam of the Road (1942)

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In this story of thirteenth-century England, Adam travels from St. Albans Abbey to Winchester to Oxford in search of his father, a strolling player. The Newbery Award seal was applied to the dust jacket by the time of the second printing in June 1943... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1943
Newbery Medal
Junior Literary Guild - 1942
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The Doll Who Came Alive (1942)

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Jyd, a young English girl, loves her doll so much that it comes to life and together they go off to the land of the Good People.

Author(s): Enys Tregarthen
Illustrator(s): Nora S. Unwin

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942
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Henrietta’s House (1942)

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In this sequel to A City of Bells and Sister of the Angels, Henrietta celebrates Hugh Anthony’s birthday and discovers her holiday house. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s): Lorna R. Steele

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The Little Grey Men (1942)

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The last four gnomes in England live by a brook in Warwickshire. When Cloudberry does not return from an exploring expedition, the other three set out to find him.

Author(s): BB
Illustrator(s): Denys Watkins-Pitchford

Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal - 1942
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Missee Lee (1942)

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The Swallows, Amazons and Captain Flint are sailing around the world when they have to abandon ship off the coast of China. When they are captured by a female Chinese pirate, they end up forming a makeshift prep school.

Author(s): Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s): Arthur Ransome
Unknown

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Money in the Bank (1942)

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Lord Uffenham has forgotten where he put the diamonds. Meanwhile he is working as a butler for his tenant who has turned Shipley Hall into a health farm. His niece Anne is engaged to the wrong man, but finds Jeff in the end. This novel was written wh... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Donald McKay

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Mr. Bumps and His Monkey (1942)

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First mate Bumps brings a remarkable monkey named Jasper home to England.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942
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Payment Deferred (1942)

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William Marble did the murder, the question is, will fate let him get away with it?

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1942)

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The creator of Captain Horatio Hornblower, RN, made up these stories to help his little boy eat when he was sad because his mother was away. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

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Rifleman Dodd and the Gun (1942)

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In the first of these two novels of the Peninsular campaign, a British infantryman is separated from his regiment and has to fight his way back through hostile territory. The Gun follows the fates of the men who use it to drive the French out of Spai... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Warren Chappell

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Tragedy at Law (1942)

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Mr. Justice Barber is threatened with death by poisoned chocolates. Dust jacket by Ardizzone.

Author(s): Cyril Hare
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

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Victory for the Slain (1942)

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Lofting’s meditation on the futility of war.

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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