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European Genre
Books in the European genre:
The Storks Fly Home (1943)
The storks fly south as the Germans conquer Holland in the spring of 1940.
Author(s):
Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Three Gay Tales from Grimm (1943)
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Wanda Gág
The White Company (1943)
A troop of English mercenaries during the hundred year’s war follow Sir Nigel to Spain.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Strawberries (1944)
The triplets earn money by picking wild strawberries which they use to help a poor family they meet in the woods.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Garibaldi (1944)
A biography of the Italian revolutionary.
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Door Opens (1945)
The author records childhood memories of growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Author(s):
Ernst Lothar
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Eastward in Eden: A Story (1945)
A child is kidnapped and later rescued.
Author(s):
Claude Silve
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Marta of Muscovy: The Fabulous Life of Russia’s First Empress (1945)
A fictionalized biography of Catherine the First of Russia.
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Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Pippi Longstocking (1945)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Richard Kennedy
Santana, the Hero Dog of France (1945)
A dog and his master give their lives to stop the German advance on Paris in World War I.
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
A Candle Burns for France (1946)
The lives of some French saints for children.
Author(s):
Blanche Jennings Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and a Little Dog (1946)
The triplets rescue a dog and return it to its owner, but it keeps coming back to them.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1946)
The classic tale of Hans and Gretel and the race for the silver skates.
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Pinocchio (1946)
Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy.
Author(s):
Allen Chaffee
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Pinocchio (1946)
Pinocchio the wooden puppet learns from his mistakes and at last becomes a real boy.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Poems of François Villon (1946)
A translation of the works of the rogue-poet of fifteenth century France.
Author(s):
François Villon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Big Farm (1946)
The triplets visit their uncle’s farm and save cousin Elsa from the bull.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1946)
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Crimson Fairy Book (1947)
A collection of fairy tales mainly from European sources.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
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Illustrator(s):
Ben Kutcher
More Tales from Grimm (1947)
Thirty-two more tales from the brothers Grimm, including ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ‘Six Swans,’ and ‘The Shoemaker and the Elves.”
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Wanda Gág