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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968)
Bond’s Bank has been rendered insolvent and the inspectors are due, so Mike Bond hires a butler to burgle the Bank to throw the inspectors off. Little does he know that the butler is actually one of America’s hottest gangsters.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
John Alcorn
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? (1968)
Bond’s Bank has been rendered insolvent and the inspectors are due, so Mike Bond hires a butler to burgle the Bank to throw the inspectors off. Little does he know that the butler is actually one of America’s hottest gangsters.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Osbert Lancaster
English Fairy Tales (1968)
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
Fine Day for a Picnic (1968)
In this novel of Querbury, the battle lines are drawn between architectural beauty and madness.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
In Spite of All Terror (1968)
Liz Hawtin, orphaned at twelve, is evacuated to the country during the London Blitz and participates in the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk.
Author(s):
Hester Burton
Illustrator(s):
Victor Ambrus
Jessica On Her Own (1968)
An orphaned cousin and an out-of-work Uncle add to Jessica's problems with her schoolmates.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Alison Prince
The Lord of the Rings (1968)
This was the first one-volume paperback edition.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Maria Poppina ab A ad Z (1968)
Mary Poppins from A to Z in a Latin translation.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1968)
The autobiography of a British clown who was active in the early nineteenth century.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Joseph Grimaldi
Illustrator(s):
George Cruikshank
W. Greatbach
Bernard Schleifer
Midway (1968)
Mark, the ordinary middle sibling, tries to make himself stand out.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill
Mike at Wrykyn (1968)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Charles Waterhouse
A Necklace of Raindrops, and other stories (1968)
These eight stories, most of which include a bit of magic, include tales of a wishing mat, an enormous cat, and a very strange house.
Author(s):
Joan Aiken
Illustrator(s):
Jan Pieńkowski
Pen, Penny, Tuppence (1968)
Penny wants a puppy for her birthday.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Meg Stevens
Poo-Poo and the Dragons (1968)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Pooh’s Pot O’Honey (1968)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Robinson Crusoe (1968)
Author(s):
Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Scroobious Pip (1968)
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Ogden Nash
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
The Seven Days (1968)
There are seven Day children, each born on a different day of the week:
"Monday’s child is fair of face …"
This second edition has new illustrations.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Joan Schwartzberg
Tim to the Lighthouse (1968)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Upside-Down Willie (1968)
In this adventure Willie joins the circus.
Author(s):
Dorothy Clewes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone