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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
In the fourth volume of her history Laura and the Ingalls family move to Minnesota and live in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Pigeon Post (1937)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are prospecting for gold on High Topps, hoping to persuade Captain Flint to stay home as he returns from a South American gold prospecting trip.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Mary Shepard
The Princess and the Apple Tree: And Other Stories (1937)
Six short stories, mainly about young children, verging on nonsense.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Sad-Faced Boy (1937)
Three young boys hop a freight in Alabama to visit their Uncle Jasper Tappin in Harlem.
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Author(s):
Arna Bontemps
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Smiling Hill Farm (1937)
The Wayne family are early pioneers in Indiana, settling at Smiling Hill Farm in 1817.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Big Surprise (1937)
When mother returns from her trip, the triplets have a big surprise waiting for her.
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Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Sunset House (1937)
More adventures of two English expatriates in Provence.
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Author(s):
Winifred Fortescue
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
When the Wind Blew (1937)
An old woman who lives by the sea takes comfort in her seventeen cats.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Rosalie Slocum
Wings for the Smiths (1937)
Mr. Smith buys an airplane, learns to fly, and takes his family, including the dogs, up in the air.
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Babar and His Children (1938)
Babar and Celeste have triplets. The smallest, Alexander, has a knack for getting into predicaments.
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Babar at Home (1938)
Babar and Celeste have triplets. The smallest, Alexander, has a knack for getting into predicaments.
Author(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Illustrator(s):
Jean de Brunhoff
Banana Tree House (1938)
A story of children living in Bermuda.
Author(s):
Phillis Garrard
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Belinda and the Singing Clock (1938)
Belinda and her father take to the road in a house trailer
Author(s):
Ethel Calvert Phillips
Illustrator(s):
Virginia Lee Burton
Children by the Sea (1938)
Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
The Children Who Lived in a Barn (1938)
When their parents don’t return from a trip to Switzerland, the five Dunnet children have to fend for themselves.
Author(s):
Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s):
J. D. Evans
The Cottage at Bantry Bay (1938)
A story about the O’Sullivans, an Irish family with four children, living along the shore of Bantry Bay.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Escape to Persia (1938)
The Hunterly children bet their aunt they can make their way to the Oxus in twenty-four hours with only thirty shillings. The ponies are glad to see them.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
The Four and Lena (1938)
Four children and a goose head for the mountains for the summer.
Author(s):
Marie Barringer
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Joseph and His Brothers: From the Story Told in the Book of Genesis (1938)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Ploof the Wild Duck (1938)
The story of a duck from his hatching to the fall migration.