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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Little House on the Prairie (1935)
In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935)
Mary Poppins returns on the end of Michael’s kite string.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
National Velvet (1935)
Velvet enters her horse, The Piebald, in England’s premier steeplechase -- The Grand National.
Author(s):
Enid Bagnold
Illustrator(s):
Laurian Jones
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
Peter and Gretchen of Old Nuremberg (1935)
Two children living with their cat in Bavaria.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Viola M. Jones
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
The Three Little Warrens (1935)
A gentle domestic comedy.
Author(s):
Sarah Wheelock
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
The Wonderful Garden: or the Three C’s (1935)
Caroline, Charlotte and Charles are staying with their great-uncle and try to work magic with a book on the language of flowers - and get their heart’s desire.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Young Walter Scott (1935)
An imaginative biography of Sir Walter Scott’s youth.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Afke’s Ten (1936)
A family story set in Holland
Author(s):
Ninke van Hichtum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
All Things New (1936)
A story of sixteen year old Masha Oblanoff and her family of Russian immigrants making their way in New York.
Author(s):
Sonia Medvedeva Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Bourru, the Brown Bear (1936)
Twin bear cubs learn how to be bears from their mother and older brother.
Author(s):
Rose Fyleman
Lida
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
A City of Bells (1936)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Golden Basket (1936)
Two girls from England are on holiday in Bruges, Belgium and meet the littlest orphan, Madeleine.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates (1936)
Hans and his sister must help keep the family going while their father is ill.
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Listening (1936)
Gail and Grroo come to visit Uncle George and his family and learn the history of their colonial house.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Louisa Alcott’s People (1936)
Selections from the works of Louisa May Alcott, including Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Thomas J. Fogarty
No-Sitch: The Hound (1936)
Bert is nine years old and needs a dog and No-Sitch fills the bill.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Peggy and the Pony (1936)
Peggy’s mother takes her on vacation to France, but Peggy would rather be riding a pony.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Phebe Fairchild: Her Book (1936)
Phebe spends a year with her country cousins in Connecticut in the 1840’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski