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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Heidi (1927)
An orphan goes to live in the high pastures of Switzerland with her grandfather.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Clara M. Burd
Love Lies Dreaming (1927)
A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Love Lies Dreaming (1927)
A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Skipping Village: A Town of Not So Long Ago (1927)
Life in a small town in Ohio at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on the author’s own childhood.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Story of a Bad Boy (1927)
Author(s):
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s):
Edwin John Prittie
The Bastable Children (1928)
An omnibus volume containing The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, and The New Treasure Seekers.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Browne
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Count Billy (1928)
Young Billy makes good his claim to lands and castles in Spain, but renounces them to win back his self-respect and the love of his friends in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Greville MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
F. D. Bedford
A Little Girl of Nineteen Hundred (1928)
A story of village life at the turn of the twentieth century based on the author’s own childhood.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1928)
This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
John Rae
Frank Schoonover
Natalia and Nikolai: Children of Russia (1928)
This book in the Children of the World tells the story of two Russian children.
Author(s):
Varia Klenova
Louise Lamprey
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
T. De Thulstrup
Prudence & Peter: Their Adventures with Pots and Pans (1928)
Two twins learn to cook.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Robins
Octavia Wilberforce
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)
Author(s):
Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Goldsmith
F. C. Yohn
Where Was Bobby? (1928)
Two French children lose their dog and don’t know where to find him.
Author(s):
Marguerite Clément
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Dorna or The Hillvale Affair (1929)
A summertime story and a mystery.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Early Candlelight (1929)
A novel of Minnesota and Fort Snelling in the early days of the Northwest Territory.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
T. S. Hunner
Kaleidoscope (1929)
A collection of stories which includes a robinsonnade. Dust jacket is by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Magic for Marigold (1929)
Marigold Lesley’s invisible playmate is always there for her, growing up in a large family of adults. READ NOW.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Edna Cooke Shoemaker
Noisy Nora: An Almost True Story (1929)
Noisy Nora is a noisy eater.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
Penrod Jashber (1929)
Further adventures of Penrod and Sam.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Grant
Pran of Albania (1929)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Cleveland Miller
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham