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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
The Civil War 1640-1660 (1956)
A short history of the English Civil War for young readers.
Author(s):
Emmeline Garnett
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
J. C. B. Knight
The Duck and the Kangaroo (1956)
This is a facsimile of an autograph in the Harvard Library Lear collection.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear
The Enchanted Castle (1956)
Jerry and Jimmy and Kathleen (who was never called that, but often simply Cat) are playing in the woods when they come on the castle and are soon caught in the toils of the magic.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1956)
Orphaned Henry Esmond is brought up by his Jacobite relations, the Castlewoods.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956)
Author(s):
Dorothy Gladys “Dodie” Smith
Illustrator(s):
Anne Grahame Johnstone
Janet Grahame Johnstone
Hunting with Mr. Jorrocks (1956)
Selections from the humorous sporting novel Handley Cross.
Author(s):
R. S. Surtees
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Last Battle (1956)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Magna Charta (1956)
The story of how the English barons brought King John to sign a charter of rights at Runnymede.
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
My Darling from the Lion's Mouth (1956)
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Derek Hirst
The Patchwork Quilt (1956)
Four children, a grandmother and a quilt.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shillabeer
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1956)
The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Pigeons and Princesses (1956)
A collection of stories and fairy tales.
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Queen Anne and Her Times: 1700-1720 (1956)
A short history of this British queen for younger readers.
Author(s):
Emmeline Garnett
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Secret Garden (1956)
An Anglo-Indian orphan girl and and an English invalid find their cure in a garden.
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind Through Some Experiences of a Humorous Nature (1956)
A collection of humorous essays.
Author(s):
Patrick Campbell
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
A Stickful of Nonpareil (1956)
A keepsake from Cambridge University Press, intended to give an idea of turn-of-the-twentieth-century printing.
Author(s):
George Scurfield
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Susan, Bill and the Dark Stranger (1956)
While Christmas shopping Susan and Bill meet a young boy who is being pursued by thugs who want his special box.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Susan, Bill and the ‘Saucy Kate’ (1956)
The two friends find adventure at a seaside resort.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Tim All Alone (1956)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Tom Brown’s School Days (1956)
A boarding school story set at Rugby, the famous British ‘public school,’ by a former student.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard