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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Great Expectations (1939)
Young Pip finds he has a patron - but who?
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Joan and the Three Deer (1939)
A young girl goes to stay with her aunt on Grand Manan Island, where she befriends some wild deer.
Author(s):
Marjorie Medary
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Little Buffalo Boy (1939)
A story about the plains Indians.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Madeline (1939)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Mimff (1939)
Mimff has no fear so he runs away from home in search of it.
Author(s):
H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Ocean-Born Mary (1939)
A girl born on the voyage from Ireland to America grows up in New Hampshire in the 1700’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Other People’s Houses (1939)
A young woman strikes out on her own in the big city.
Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Oxus in Summer (1939)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Ramona (1939)
Ramona is a mixed-race woman of Native American and Scotch ancestry. The novel tells of her travails during the settlement of California after the Mexican American War.
Author(s):
Helen Hunt Jackson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Ship that Flew (1939)
Peter buys a model ship from an antique store for “all the money he has in the world -- and a little bit more” and discovers it can carry its owners through space and time.
Author(s):
Hilda Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Nora Lavrin
The Singing Tree (1939)
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Sister of the Angels (1939)
A story about Henrietta, Hugh Anthony, Torminster Cathedral and Christmas.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Who Is Johnny? (1939)
A black boy, born in Hungary, travels to Berlin to find his long lost brother.
Author(s):
Leopold Gedo
Illustrator(s):
Leopold Gedo
The Yearling (1939)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1940)
The puppet who wants to be a real boy.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Betsy - Tacy (1940)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Blueberry Corners (1940)
An historical novel about two young girls growing up in Connecticut in the 1840’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Fair American (1940)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Girl Next Door (1940)
The triplets lend the girl next door some play-clothes so Nurse will not scold her for getting her dress soiled.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Greased Lightning (1940)
Zeke makes a pet of the runt of the sow’s litter and names him Greased Lightning.
Author(s):
Sterling North
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese