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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Cargo for Jennifer (1954)
Jennifer Calderón is a New York high school student who never knew her father. When her father's family invites her to spend a year in Cuba with them, she learns about Cuba and her heritage.
Author(s):
Marjorie Vetter
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
Corn Farm Boy (1954)
The life of an Iowa farm family.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Cuckoo Clock (1954)
Griselda discovers that the bird in the cuckoo clock can take her on magic journeys.
Author(s):
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Dream Days (1954)
Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of memories of childhood includes his story
The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations are new, not reprints of the 1930 edition and were never used in any British edition.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Golden Age (1954)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
How to Make an Earthquake (1954)
A collection of activities to do at home.
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
The Kitten Who Thought He Was a Mouse (1954)
The Miggs family of mice find a baby kitten in their nest and decide to adopt him.
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Author(s):
Miriam Norton
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Little Fir Tree (1954)
The little fir tree is dug up and comes to a little boy as a Christmas tree two years running, but the third year the little boy comes to him.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
A Little House of Your Own (1954)
Young children play at making their own house.
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Author(s):
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1954)
Son of an American mother and an English father, Cedric is called to England by his somewhat irascible grandfather to be his heir.
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Madeline (1954)
In an old house in Paris
That was covered in vines
Lived twelve little girls …
The smallest one was Madeline.
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Mimff Takes Over (1954)
Mimff and his family help a Hungarian refugee boy find his mother.
Author(s):
H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Minor Works (1954)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (1954)
The widow of a retired pirate has move to the country but is still providing cures for children with bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak
The New Runaway Home (1954)
This is Book 6 of the Alice and Jerry basic reader series. The Harding family pulls up stakes and moves to California.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Newcomes (1954)
A vast novel of the Victorian era that centers on Colonel Thomas Newcombe, his son Clive and their relations and friends. The Limited Editions Club version is in two volumes.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Project Boy (1954)
Young families live in former army barracks after World War II.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Snipp, Snapp, Snurr Learn to Swim (1954)
The triplets go to the sea shore. When they drift off in a washtub the fisherman who rescues them teaches them to swim.
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Susan, Bill and the Ivy-Clad Oak (1954)
In their second adventure Susan and Bill help to run a new cricket team set up by their friend the Colonel.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard