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European Genre
Books in the European genre:
Gogo the French Seagull (1960)
Gogo, the gourmet French seagull follows the Queen of France back and forth across the Atlantic.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Italian Peepshow (1960)
A collection of fairy tales from the Italian.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Paolo and Panetto (1960)
A little Italian boy gets over his fears after a nighttime adventure with Pan.
Author(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
The Red Sea Sharks (1960)
The Rib of the Green Umbrella (1960)
It’s 1944 and in a small town in Italy the children are aiding the partisans battle the occupying Germans.
Author(s):
Naomi Mitchison
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Sea Broke Through (1960)
A storm passes through Holland and the dikes break. This is the story of the men, women, boys and girls who responded to the emergency.
Author(s):
Ardo Flakkeberg
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Who Will Comfort Toffle? (1960)
A lonely Toffle is searching for a friend and rescues the Miffle from The Groke.
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
The Defender (1961)
Turgen, a Siberian herder, protects the mountain sheep from a hard winter.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Elizabeth (1961)
This is the story of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Rudolf Michael Sachs
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
Madeline in London (1961)
Madeline and the orphelines visit Pepito in London and return with a new pet.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Ervine Metzl
My Friend Yakub (1961)
The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Picco the Sad Italian Pony (1961)
Alfredo and Gina do everything they can think of to cheer up the little pony, but nothing works, until Alfredo has a brilliant idea.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Shooting Star (1961)
A meteoroid grounds in the polar sea and Tintin and his companions are off to claim it.
Read online at archive.org.
The Song of Roland (1961)
The great French romance, here in a verse translation.
Author(s):
Hilda Cummings Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Io Sono I Am (1962)
Learn forty-one words of Italian with this amusing picture book.
Author(s):
Florence Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Island of Fish in the Trees (1962)
Belinda and her little sister travel their island to find a doctor to fix her doll.
Author(s):
Eva-Lis Wuorio
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Winged Watchman (1962)
The story of a Dutch family during the German occupation in World War II.
Read online at archivie.org.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Castafiore Emerald (1963)
The Little Riders (1963)
Author(s):
Margaretha Shemin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier