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Books in the British genre:

February’s Road (1966)

A new road is planned to run through the Callendar farm, but February is determined to stop it.

Author(s): John Verney
Illustrator(s): John Verney

Friday’s Tunnel (1966)

February and her brother Friday get mixed up with an international crisis -- and Friday’s tunnel comes through. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): John Verney
Illustrator(s): John Verney

Jack of Dover (1966)

Jack’s mother and brothers always told him he was a fool, so when he goes to seek his fortune he determines to be the biggest fool in Christendom. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Richard Garnett
Illustrator(s): Graham Oakley

The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll (1966)

A little girl finds a tiny doll in the freezer case at the grocery store and rescues it. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Aingelda Ardizzone
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Long ago when I was Young (1966)

Children’s author E. Nesbit remembers - not too accurately - her own girlhood. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines (1966)

Miss Bianca and Bernard, intrepid leaders of the Mouse Prisoners’ Aid Society, are tasked with rescuing Teddy-age-eight from the salt mines. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Molliwumps (1966)

Two Victorian fairies come out of banishment to reunite two friends separated by the Atlantic Ocean.

Author(s): Cecil Maiden
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

ODTAA (1966)

Highworth Foliat Ridden’s father sends him out to Santa Barbara on the Spanish Main to see if what he can make of himself.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Peter Kettle

Plum Pie (1966)

A collection of short stories starring favorite Wodehouse characters, including Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Bingo Little, and Freddie Threepwood. The British edition includes additional material.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Poor Stainless (1966)

When Stainless does not return from his errand, his family fears the worst.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Mary Norton
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush
Joe Krush

Recipes from an Old Farmhouse (1966)

A collection of old British country recipes.

Author(s): Alison Uttley
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Tolkien Reader (1966)

This collection includes The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Betsy and Joe (1967)

A squirrel befriends a tramp.

Author(s): Ernest H. Shepard
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Christopher Robin Book of Verse (1967)

Twenty-four selected verses from When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six.The illustrations are new and in color. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Coastline (1967)

A social geography of the British coastline.

Company for Henry (1967)

Jane’s Uncle Henry is possessed of an ancestral seat which he would be happy to be rid of and a certain seventeenth century French paperweight that his American cousin covets for his collection.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Complete Adventures of the Borrowers (1967)

All four of the original Borrowers books are included in this collection.

Author(s): Mary Norton
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush
Joe Krush

Doctor Dolittle Boxed Set (1967)

Includes Doctor Dolittle’s Circus, Zoo, Caravan, Garden, In the Moon, Return.

Author(s): Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s): Hugh Lofting

The Grange at High Force (1967)

Three English boys and a retired admiral solve the mystery of the missing Lady statue.

Author(s): Philip Turner
Illustrator(s): W. T. Mars

Carnegie Medal
Carnegie Medal - 1963

Hornblower and the Crisis (1967)

An unfinished novel and two uncollected short stories about the intrepid Captain Horatio Hornblower, R.N.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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