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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Victoria and the Golden Bird (1948)
Victoria lives in a white-washed cottage with her pet hedgehog, Horace, but she would like someone else to play with.
Author(s):
Pauline Baynes
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Wait Till the Moon Is Full (1948)
When the moon is full the little raccoon comes out to play.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Why the Little Elephant Got Spanked (1948)
The little elephant goes off to see what his father is doing and his mother starts to worry.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Willow Brook Farm (1948)
Daily life of a German immigrant farm family in Pennsylvania.
Author(s):
Katherine D. Christ
Illustrator(s):
John Clift
Hilda van Stockum
Wonderful Story Book (1948)
This edition contains 27 stories and poems.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
J. P. Miller
April Fool! (1949)
Little Raymond Frog plays an April Fool’s Day joke on his father. But two can play that game.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Azor and the Haddock (1949)
Author(s):
Maude Crowley
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Big Elephant (1949)
Growing tired of the circus, the elephant settles in a small town.
Read online at archive.org. This is a later edition.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Big World and the Little House (1949)
The whole family -- three generations and the dog -- join together to make a rundown old house into a home.
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Marc Simont
Bobby and His Airplanes (1949)
Bobby wants to fly higher and higher as he tries different means of aerial transport.
Author(s):
Helen Palmer
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Carney’s House Party (1949)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Cocolo Comes to America (1949)
Cocolo, the little Italian donkey and his master Lucio come to America.
Author(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Cotton in My Sack (1949)
A story about the life of Arkansas field laborers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Dig for a Treasure (1949)
A treasure is rumored to be buried on Invisible Island, and the eight explorers are determined to find it.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Hidden Burro (1949)
Dorothy and Wally take their burro Chula to the nation’s capital for the summer - but their parents don’t know.
Author(s):
Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
A House for Ten (1949)
A family with ten children live on a farm in Indiana in the 1850’s.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The House of Arden (1949)
Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Desmond E. Walduck
Little Appaloosa (1949)
Ben lives on a ranch out west and receives an Appaloosa pony of his own to raise, train and ride.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Little Squirrel’s Santa Claus (1949)
Alfred Squirrel leaves Santa a treat, and Santa leaves him his own Santa hat.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Make-Believe (1949)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges