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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah (1941)
When the Germans invade their island in the English Channel, Mick and Caroline Templeton get left behind in the confusion.
Author(s):
Mary Treadgold
Illustrator(s):
Stuart Tresilian
Andries (1942)
Ten-year-old Andries joins his uncle in a large, but silent and unhappy house. Across the way sits a cottage, overflowing with the lively Dykstra family.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Anybody at Home? (1942)
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942)
Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in these adventures.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Blue-Eyed Lady (1942)
Pip and Nanny’s mother is an angel in heaven. A Christmas story.
Author(s):
Ferenc Molnár
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Cat That Walked by Himself (1942)
How the cat made a bargain with the Woman, but still walks by himself.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The First Thanksgiving (1942)
Author(s):
Lena Barksdale
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Friend (1942)
The triplets make friends with a lonely old geography teacher after they leave a big snow ball on his walk.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
The Four-Story Mistake (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Fun and Frolic (1942)
This reader for the early grades is a collection of short stories and poems.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Rachel Field
Rose Fyleman
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Emma L. Brock
Henrietta’s House (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Lorna R. Steele
Hi-Po the Hippo (1942)
When a baby hippo is left on their front lawn, Mr. and Mrs Hippo decide to keep him.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
How the Baby Hippo Found a Home (1942)
One morning Mr. and Mrs. Hippo find a baby in a basket by their front door. Mr. Hippo decides to keep the little boy whose name is Hi-Po.
Author(s):
Dorothy Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett
The Kellyhorns (1942)
When separated-at-birth twins Penny and Pam discover each other, they determine to put their family back together.
Author(s):
Barbara Cooney
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
The Long White Month (1942)
Priscilla lives with her aunt in New York. When she gets a chance to live in a cabin in the woods with cousin Susan, she takes responsibility for the wild birds.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Theresa Kalab
The Middle Moffat (1942)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Over the Big Hill: A Betsy-Tacy Story (1942)
Betsy and Tacy are joined by Tib in this series of adventures. Later editions are titled Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Perilous Night (1942)
A novel of the Revolutionary War.
Author(s):
Burke Boyce
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
The Runaway Bunny (1942)
When the bunny decides to run away, his mother follows him.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Clement Hurd
Runaway Home (1942)
This is Book 6 of the Alice and Jerry basic reading program.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren