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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Katie and the Sad Noise (1961)
Katie hears a sad noise in the night, three days running. On the third day, she leads her father and the townsfolk in tracking it down.
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Ellie Simmons
Little Black: A Pony (1961)
Author(s):
Walter Farley
Illustrator(s):
James Schucker
Madeline in London (1961)
Madeline and the orphelines visit Pepito in London and return with a new pet.
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Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Ervine Metzl
Mrs. Coverlet’s Magicians (1961)
The Toad is not at all pleased when Miss Eva Penalty takes over for Mrs. Coverlet, and he intends to do something about it.
Author(s):
Mary Nash
Illustrator(s):
Garret Price
My Friend Yakub (1961)
The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
New Horizons (1961)
Janey has the opportunity to attend high school on the mainland.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Phil Stong’s Big Book (1961)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Picco the Sad Italian Pony (1961)
Alfredo and Gina do everything they can think of to cheer up the little pony, but nothing works, until Alfredo has a brilliant idea.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Purple Hills (1961)
A family of migrant farm workers takes up a homestead in New Mexico, shortly after it achieves statehood, and discovers why the previous owners left.
Author(s):
Lela Waltrip
Rufus Waltrip
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Return to Gone-Away (1961)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
Snow on Blueberry Mountain (1961)
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Don Sibley
To Tame a Sister (1961)
Margaret goes to stay with her cousins, but her two mischievous brothers come as well and threaten to spoil everything.
Author(s):
Gillian Avery
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Ethan Allen Hawley decides he wants to be rich, and chooses to act dishonestly to become so.
Author(s):
John Steinbeck
Illustrator(s):
Elmer Hader
The Year of the Shining Cuckoo (1961)
Johnny sets out to earn enough money to buy a horse. The story is set in a remote seaside town in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Boundary Riders (1962)
Three Australian children set out to check the boundary fences and cross over to investigate a waterfall.
Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Horder
The Diamond in the Window (1962)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Dusty and the Fiddlers (1962)
Dusty invites a family of itinerant fiddlers to perform in his family’s barn, and incidentally helps end a neighborly quarrel.
Author(s):
Miska Miles
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Great Expectations (1962)
This edition has been slightly shortened to concentrate on the story of Pip and his relationship to his great patron.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Ronald Searle
The Island of Fish in the Trees (1962)
Belinda and her little sister travel their island to find a doctor to fix her doll.
Author(s):
Eva-Lis Wuorio
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: The Story of the Play (1962)
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Eleanor Graham
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone