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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Road to Down Under (1944)
Barbara Reid and her family emigrate from the Orkney Islands to Australia.
Author(s):
Maribelle Cormack
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Then There Were Five (1944)
The four Melendys meet Mark, and then there are five.
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Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Wag-by-Wall (1944)
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
None
Wag-by-Wall (1944)
A sleepy owl helps an impoverished grandmother care for her only grandchild.
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Julius J. Lankes
Willie’s Walk to Grandmama (1944)
Willie has many adventures on his walk to Grandmama’s house.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Rockbridge Campbell
Illustrator(s):
Lucienne Bloch
The Wind on the Moon: A Story for Children (1944)
Dinah and Dorinda determine to be naughty while their father is away.
Author(s):
Eric Linklater
Illustrator(s):
Nicolas Bentley
Young Man of the House (1944)
Nine year old Eben becomes the man of the house when his father is called up to fight in World War II.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Hunt
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Alice Adams (1945)
Alice Adams aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affection of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. This is a dramatization of the original work.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Elizabeth Trotter
Illustrator(s):
None
The Black Stallion Returns (1945)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
Harold Eldridge
Brendon Chase (1945)
Three English boys, tired of ‘petticoat government,’ take to the woods.
Author(s):
BB
Illustrator(s):
Denys Watkins-Pitchford
The Burro of Barnegat Road (1945)
When Chula the burro comes from Mexico to Connecticut, at first no one is happy.
Author(s):
Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Carrot Seed (1945)
Everyone tells him his carrot won’t come up, but the little boy knows better.
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Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
Clear the Track for Michael’s Magic Train (1945)
Michael’s train starts in the living room, and brings you back home again.
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Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Cocolo (1945)
Author(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
The Forgetful Elephant (1945)
Author(s):
Jean Greene
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Heaven to Betsy (1945)
Betsy and Tacy start high school at Deep Valley High.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
I Married Them (1945)
A doctor's young wife finds herself absorbed into the bedlam of her uproarious in-laws.
Author(s):
Janet Van Duyn
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Little Fisherman: A Fish Story (1945)
A Big fisherman and a Little fisherman put out into the deep.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Dahlov Ipcar
The Mitchells (1945)
The five Mitchell children and their mother stay behind in Washington D.C. as father goes off to war.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1945)
Author(s):
Becky Reyher
Illustrator(s):
Ruth Chrisman Gannett