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Engineering Genre
Books in the Engineering genre:
Handbook of American Mountaineering (1942)
A guide to mountain climbing technique.
Author(s):
Kenneth Atwood Henderson
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Bobo the Barrage Balloon (1943)
A story about what a barrage balloon does to protect its country.
Author(s):
Margaret McConnell
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Katy and the Big Snow (1943)
When the big snow paralyzes the town, Katy goes to work and plows it out.
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Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Red, White and Blue Auto (1943)
Mr. Head, Mr. Red, Mr. White and Mr. Blue learn to work together at the car factory.
Author(s):
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Little Stone House (1944)
The author/artists tell the story of how they built themselves a house in the woods from the native stone and timber.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Tootle (1945)
Tootle wants to play in the meadow, but engineer Bill knows he has to stay on the track, no matter what. Later editions have fewer pages.
Author(s):
Gertrude Crampton
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Golden Encyclopedia (1946)
Author(s):
Dorothy A. Bennett
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1946)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Boy Mechanic: A Completely New and Revised Edition by the Editors of Popular Mechanics (1952)
This harks back to a series of volumes of the same name dating back to the teens of the twentieth century.
Author(s):
Popular Mechanics Co.
Illustrator(s):
Popular Mechanics Co.
Maybelle the Cable Car (1952)
Author(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
My Little Golden Book about Travel (1956)
The story of transportation from the raft to the jet liner.
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Great Wheel (1957)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Look at Houses (1959)
An introduction to the architecture of houses.
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Best in Children’s Books Volume 36 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Author(s):
William Allingham
Brothers Grimm
Betty MacDonald
Tony Palazzo
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Burmah Burris
Robin Jacques
Richard Scarry
Et al
Made in the Middle Ages (1961)
Descriptions and illustrations of everyday articles that have come down to us from the Middle Ages.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship (1964)
A history of the steel battleship from the launch of the Dreadnought in 1906 to the end of the era.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Richard Hough
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
The Sailing Ship (1964)
A history of the development of sailing ships from the Egyptians to the Thomas W. Lawson, a seven-masted schooner of 1902.
Author(s):
Jan de Hartog
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction (1973)
A close look at how cathedrals were built.
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Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction (1974)
A detailed study of Roman city building.
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Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay