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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Wild Flower Rhymes (1942)
A small book of rhymes and pictures of wild flowers.
Author(s):
Powell Perry
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Adam of the Road (1943)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Commoners’ New Forest (1943)
An historical and practical guide to the New Forest and the rights of those who live in it.
Author(s):
F. E. Kenchington
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Magic Bed-Knob (1943)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Waldo Peirce
Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back (1943)
The two first volumes of the Mary Poppins stories in one. In this edition some of the illustrations are in color.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Agnes Sims
Out of the Silent Planet (1943)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
The Ship (1943)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
A. E. Barlow
The Ship (1943)
Based on the second Battle of Sirte in 1942 between the Italian fleet and a British convoy relieving Malta.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Tom Lea
The Story of England (1943)
A short illustrated history of England for young readers.
Author(s):
Helen Arbuthnot
Beatrice Curtis Brown
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The White Company (1943)
A troop of English mercenaries during the hundred year’s war follow Sir Nigel to Spain.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Bedchamber Mystery (1944)
A collection of short stories.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Clover Magic (1944)
Elizabeth and her sister Jane meet the great ladies of English history, including Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, thanks to Titania and the Magic Clover.
Author(s):
Victoria Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
First Whisper of “The Wind in the Willows” (1944)
This book reprints the original letters written to his son by Kenneth Grahame that later became The Wind in the Willows.It also includes a new story Bertie’s Escapade.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
John Singer Sargent
The Flags of Dawn (1944)
A story of a Welsh priest, a doctor (a Welshwoman), a Frenchman and the doings at Runnymede, despite King John.
Author(s):
Esther Melbourne Knox
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1944)
Tim runs away to sea and has many adventures before he is safely at home again. This is the first paperback edition.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Perelandra: A Novel (1944)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Tim and Lucy Go to Sea (1944)
Tim and Lucy are invited to cruise on a yacht and are captured by mutineers.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Wag-by-Wall (1944)
A sleepy owl helps an impoverished grandmother care for her only grandchild.
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Julius J. Lankes