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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Ralph Pallen Coleman
Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Val Biro
Jack and the Beanstalk: An English Folk Tale (1953)
How Jack traded his cow for some magic beans that took him to the cloud land of the giants.
Author(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Magic Compass (1953)
A story from Mary Poppins.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Elliott
The Magic Fishbone (1953)
The Princess Alicia keeps the magic fishbone in her pocket until the right time.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Marlows and the Traitor (1953)
The four younger Marlows and their mother are spending the Easter holidays by the sea when they stumble on a spy.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Doritie Kettlewell
Mike and Psmith (1953)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Mike at Wrykyn (1953)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1953)
A collection of poems. This is a larger format than the 1946 printing.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Performing Flea: A Self-Portrait in Letters (1953)
Comprises a selection of the letters Wodehouse wrote to Townend over a period of more than thirty years.
Author(s):
William Townend
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Ring for Jeeves (1953)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Run Away Home (1953)
Cathie runs away from the orphanage to the west coast of Scotland to seek her real home.
Author(s):
Elinor Lyon
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Silver Chair (1953)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Tim in Danger (1953)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Wind in the Willows (1953)
For this 101st edition, originally published in Britain in 1951, Ernest Shepard supplied six new full page illustrations of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger on the riverbank.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Brownies and Other Stories (1954)
This story did indeed inspire the name of the junior members of the Girl Guides in England and Girl Scouts in America.
Author(s):
Mrs. Juliana Horatia Ewing
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
The Cuckoo Clock (1954)
Griselda discovers that the bird in the cuckoo clock can take her on magic journeys.
Author(s):
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Ditties for the Nursery (1954)
This collection was originally published about 1805 and includes such familiar rhymes as 'Tweedledee and Tweedledum.'
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Monica Walker
Dream Days (1954)
Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of memories of childhood includes his story
The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations are new, not reprints of the 1930 edition and were never used in any British edition.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard