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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Happy Ever After (1940)
A Mary Poppins story which was later included in Mary Poppins Opens the Door.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Jimmy and Jemima (1940)
When Jimmy joins the boy scouts, he no longer has time for his little sister Jemima until …
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Kersti and Saint Nicholas (1940)
The adventures of the smallest of seven sisters ends on St. Nicholas Eve with a ride on his white horse.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Long Winter (1940)
The Indians warn that there will be a hard winter so Pa moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to his store building in town for the winter.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Michel’s Island (1940)
Michel Jarnac, son of a French voyageur and grandson of an Indian chief, lives on Mackinac Island in the early 1800’s.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Morgan’s Fourth Son (1940)
When the youngest son decides to leave the farm as his older brothers have his parents object.
Author(s):
Margaret I. Ross
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Mother Makes Christmas (1940)
Sally and her mother make a Vermont Christmas out of nothing at all.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Oxus in Summer (1940)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
Presents for Lupe (1940)
The story of a red squirrel from South America and her North American friends.
Author(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
When Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy refuses to dance with her Elizabeth Bennett is confirmed in her prejudice that he is filled with pride. On further acquaintance she is forced to revise her opinion.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Sea is All Around (1940)
Mab has been living with her aunt Sarah in Iowa. Now she is going to live with Aunt Belinda on Nantucket Island.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Secret Water (1940)
The Swallows are set down on an island in a tidal estuary to explore and map it.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Arthur Ransome
Smoky-House (1940)
An exciting tale about dogs and donkeys and smugglers. The British edition has the hyphen.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Smoky House (1940)
An exciting story about dogs and donkeys and smugglers.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Richard Floethe
The Story of Alaska (1940)
Author(s):
Clara Breakey Lambert
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
T-Model Tommy: Study Edition (1940)
This special school edition of the adventures of Tommy Ballard and his trucking company has study questions and a glossary.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
They Were Strong and Good (1940)
Robert Lawson tells the story of his parents and grandparents, and illustrates it too.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Year of Jubilo (1940)
When their father dies and his business fails, the Wymans retreat to their cottage in Maine to regroup.
Author(s):
Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Yearling (1940)
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
April’s Kittens (1941)
April’s cat Sheba has three kittens. But her father insists that theirs is strickly a one-cat household. April must give up three cats, but which ones?
Author(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry
Illustrator(s):
Clare Turlay Newberry