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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Marian and Marion (1949)
The story of the friendship of a city girl and a country girl in Holland.
Author(s):
J. M. Selleger-Elout
Illustrator(s):
B. Midderigh-Bokhorst
Mimff in Charge (1949)
Mimff’s parents adopt a little girl.
Author(s):
H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mouse’s House (1949)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Mrs. Sheep’s Little Lamb (1949)
Little Rose is helping her mother shop at the grocery store when she gets lost.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Naughty Little Guest (1949)
Margaret’s invisible friend Estelle is being very naughty today.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Pilgrim Kate (1949)
A young woman in England decides to join the Puritans when they depart for Holland.
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Poor Frightened Mr. Pig (1949)
Robert dresses up as a witch for Halloween and scares his father - but what is that in the kitchen?
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Roger Mouse’s Wish (1949)
Roger Mouse likes to play Indian, and now he has his own Indian outfit!
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Story of the Amulet (1949)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
J. S. Goodall
They’re Your Teeth! (1949)
How to take care of your teeth.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Trigger John’s Son (1949)
Trigger is on his way to be adopted ‘on approval’ but decides to do some ‘approving’ of his own first.
Author(s):
Tom Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
The Two Snowbulls (1949)
Oliver is sick in bed so his Daddy makes him a snowbull he can see through his bedroom window.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Uncle Quack (1949)
Don’t worry! “Then with a smirk he et it!”
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Wonderful House-Boat-Train (1949)
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Eichenberg
The Wonderful Silly Picnic (1949)
Little Dorothy Donkey takes her first trip to the beach.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Animal’s Merry Christmas (1950)
Thirty-one Christmas stories, with lots of gold ink!
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
A Child’s Good Night Book (1950)
A first going to bed book. This second edition was in a larger format.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Jean Charlot
The Circus Baby (1950)
Mother elephant decides it is time her baby learned proper table manners.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Cocolo’s Home (1950)
Cocolo is homesick for his home island of Rvaya-Reena in Italy so he takes a trip to visit and discovers you can’t go home again.
Author(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
Illustrator(s):
Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
A Day at the Zoo (1950)
This celebration of the zoo includes a song. Later editions have fewer pages.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Ethel Crowninshield
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely