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Books in the European genre:

Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Red Shoes (1932)

It is mother’s birthday but the triplets are short of funds, so they go to work to earn the money for mother’s birthday present. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

Sven the Wise and Svea the Kind (1932)

A collection of stories from Lappland.

Author(s): Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Magic Horse (1933)

The triplets ride their rocking horse to Candy Land.

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1933

Snipp, Snapp, Snurr The Magic Horse and The Gingerbread (1933)

The triplets ride their rocking horse to Candy Land and visit the baker where they are turned into gingerbread men.

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1933

Flash: The Story of a Horse, a Coach-Dog and the Gypsies (1934)

The story of the fastest horse in the kingdom, sire of Powder, how he ran off with the gypsies, and finally comes home.

Author(s): Esther Averill
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Hansi (1934)

Hansi spends Christmas with his aunt and uncle high in the mountains of the Tyrol. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s): Ludwig Bemelmans

Kees and Kleintje (1934)

The further adventures of a little Dutch boy, Kees, and his pet duck Kleintje.

Author(s): Marian King
Illustrator(s): Elizabeth Enright

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild -

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1934)

The story of the piper who was not paid and took his revenge on the children of the town.

Author(s): Robert Browning
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Prince Commands (1934)

This first novel by Andre Norton is a Ruritanian adventure. The writing lacks polish.

Author(s): Andre Norton
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

A Scotch Circus: The Story of Tammas Who Rode the Dragon (1934)

A story about a circus.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Tom Powers
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread (1934)

The triplets want butter for their bread, but mother has no cream and the cow has no milk because there is no grass because the sun did not shine. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

The Good Master (1935)

The adventures of Jancsi and his cousin Kate on his father’s ranch in Hungary.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

The House of the Four Winds (1935)

This is the third of the mystery novels featuring Dickson McCunn in which he and his friends help a young prince fight for his throne.

Author(s): John Buchan
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

The Mediterranean: An Anthology (1935)

A collection of stories and articles centered on the Mediterranean Sea.

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

Perfume from Provence (1935)

An English couple moves to Provence in the 1930’s.

A later reprint is at archive.org

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

Pinocchio (1935)

The story of a wooden puppet who becomes a real boy. This edition has been shortened by the editor.

Author(s): Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Snip, Snap, Snurr The Red Shoes and The Buttered Bread (1935)

This edition includes the story of how the triplets earn money for a birthday present for their mother and how the sun must shine for them to have butter for their bread.

Author(s): Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s): Maj Lindman

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

Afke’s Ten (1936)

A family story set in Holland

Author(s): Ninke van Hichtum
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1937

Albanian Wonder Tales (1936)

A collection of folk tales from Albania.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Post Wheeler
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1937

Ballet Shoes (1936)

Three orphan girls vow to make a name for themselves and find their own special talents. One becomes an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix. Ballet Shoes was a commended runner up for the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Libra... View More

Author(s): Noel Streatfeild
Illustrator(s): Ruth Gervis

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