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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Nothing Serious (1951)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Princess and the Goblin (1951)
The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Queen Elizabeth (1951)
A biography of “Good” Queen Bess, intended for elementary schools.
Author(s):
Jeannette Covert Nolan
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
The Saturday Book Eleventh Year (1951)
An annual miscellany of prose and poetry by British authors. Single drawing by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
H. E. Bates
Alison Uttley
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Joan Hassall
Et al
Showmen and Suckers (1951)
A survey of popular entertainment from high class to low.
Author(s):
Maurice Anthony Coneys Gorham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Three Golden Nobles (1951)
In fourteenth-century England, a young serf acheives his dream of becoming a King's painter.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Tim and Charlotte (1951)
Author(s):
E. Powys Mathers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Valley of Song (1951)
Tabitha calls on the residents of the Valley of Song to help the craftsmen of the Hard build the East-Indiaman.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
The Valley of Song (1951)
When the owners cancel the construction of the Swan, Tabitha calls on the residents of the Valley of Song to help the craftsmen of the Hard build the East-Indiaman
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
The Young Visiters, or Mr Salteena’s Plan (1951)
This Victorian novel was written by its author at the age of nine and became a bestseller when first published in 1919.
Author(s):
Daisy Ashford
William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Barmy in Wonderland (1952)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
The Borrowers (1952)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Diana Stanley
Days Before History (1952)
A brief account of prehistoric peoples for young children.
Author(s):
Emily Gertrude Hume
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Doctor Dolittle’s Puddleby Adventures (1952)
A collection of stories about Doctor Dolittle and his animal friends.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Olga Michael
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
The Gingerbread Shop (1952)
The story of buying the gingerbread with gold stars on it from Mary Poppins.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Elliott
Horatio Hornblower (1952)
In the first of these two novels Hornblower leads a fleet into the Baltic in support of the Russians while in the second he returns to France and is caught up in the fighting during the Hundred Days of Napoleon’s return.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
The Humour of Dickens (1952)
A collection of Dickens snippets with illustrations by various hands.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Michael Cummings
Giles
Osbert Lancaster
Ronald Searle
Idylls of the King (1952)
A cycle of poems on Arthurian themes.
Author(s):
Alfred Tennyson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward