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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Quito Express (1938)
A baby stows away on the Quito Express.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Ruth (1938)
How a Moabite woman became the great-grandmother of the king of Israel.
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Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Spiky the Hedgehog (1938)
A young hedgehog goes adventuring and is kidnapped by gypsies, but eventually escapes and returns home.
T-Model Tommy (1938)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Thimble Summer (1938)
Garnet lives on a farm in Wisconsin and has adventures all summer long.
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Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Wee Gillis (1938)
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Wee Gillis (1938)
Wee Gillis must decide whether to be a Lowlander like his mother and raise long-haired cows or a Highlander like his father and stalk stags. This is the British first edition.
Author(s):
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Yinka-Tu the Yak (1938)
The story of a Tibetan boy named Sifan and an orphaned Yak his father gave him named Yinka-Tu.
Author(s):
Alice Alison Lide
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Young Settler (1938)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Adventure May be Anywhere (1939)
Four children on a seaside holiday in Cornwall.
Author(s):
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
All the Days Were Antonia’s (1939)
Author(s):
Florence Stebbins Gleeson
Gretchen McKown
Illustrator(s):
Zhenya Gay
Anne of Ingleside (1939)
In this final volume in the series, Anne is now the mother of five children with another baby on the way.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Charles V. John
The Boy Emigrants (1939)
Two young men head west by Conestoga to find a better life. This edition bound in black cloth with a paste on cover is more typical of the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Harvey Thomas Dunn
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
Pa takes a job on the railroad and move Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to the Dakota Territory where they spend the winter in a surveyor’s shanty.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (1939)
Cottontail is only a little country bunny, but she is wise, kind, swift and clever and so the Grandfather bunny chooses her as one of the five Easter Bunnies.
Author(s):
DuBose Heyward
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Flack
Cowhand Goes to Town (1939)
Sam goes to town with his father for the cattle auctions, and hopes to get a six-shooter.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
An Ear for Uncle Emil (1939)
Uncle Emil, the best herdsman doll in Switzerland has lost his ear to Gigi the goose.
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Author(s):
E. R. Gaggin
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the New Dotted Dresses (1939)
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Francie on the Run (1939)
Bored while recuperating from an operation in the hospital, Francie decides to leave and walk home.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum