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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
The Singing Wreath and Other Stories (1957)
A collection of stories.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Julia Comper
Something Fishy (1957)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
Songberd’s Grove (1957)
A group of children resist a gang that is destroying their neighborhood.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Spring of the Year (1957)
Laura Haverard moves to St. Merlyon with her family, fails her grammar school exam and discovers acting when she plays Ariel in The Tempest.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
Sugar for the Horse (1957)
More stories about he author’s deplorable Uncle Silas.
Author(s):
H. E. Bates
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Wandering Moon (1957)
A collection of poetry for children.
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The World of Pooh (1957)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Dwight Shepler
Brief to Counsel (1958)
A look at the practice of law in Great Britain.
Author(s):
Henry Cecil
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The British People (1958)
A social studies book about the British people and their work.
Author(s):
Albert Hitchcock
L. J. Hitchcock
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
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The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
Cocktail Time (1958)
When Pongo’s Uncle Fred knocks off Sir Raymond ‘Beefy’ Bastable’s top hat with a Brazil nut he starts something.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Cocktail Time (1958)
When Pongo’s Uncle Fred, aka the fifth Earl of Ickenham, is off his leash, anything may happen, and it does.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Robert Shore
The Comedies (1958)
The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and we have just covered the T’s. The greatest master of English in his most appealing work.
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Curious Tale of Cloud City (1958)
Colin and Pam are snatched away to Cloud City, after eating an enchanted sweet, where they help free the people from enslavement to the animals.
Author(s):
Joan Mary Bate
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Doubling Rod (1958)
An Englsh family has a magic rod that will double what they need in this mystery. The British first edition was not illustrated by Christine Price.
Author(s):
Ada M. Harrison
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Down River (1958)
John Walters and the Tomahawk club return to explore their cave and encounter a band of smugglers.
Author(s):
Richard Church
Illustrator(s):
Laurence Irving
Five of Us – and Madeline (1958)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Peter Freeman
Fun and Fantasy (1958)
An anthology of imaginative stories and poems for older readers.
A Golden Land (1958)
A wide ranging anthology of poetry and prose.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Tove Jansson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Gillian Conway
Ernest H. Shepard
Et al