Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s):
None
The Admirable Tinker (1904)
Disowned by his stepmother Sir Tancred and his son, Tinker, live by their wits. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Eckerson
The Golden Age (1904)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
In the Closed Room (1904)
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
New Treasure Seekers, or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1904)
Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity. Read online at gutenberg.org.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Poems of Childhood (1904)
A collection of poems including ‘Wynken, Blynken and Nod,’ and ‘The Duel.’ Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eugene Field
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Lady Noggs Peeress (1905)
Lady Felicia Grandison, known to her friends as Noggs, despite her uncle the Prime Minister's attempts to make a lady of her, generally has her own way.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Lewis Baumer
Oswald Bastable and Others (1905)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
H. R. Millar
The Railway Children (1905)
Smouldering Fires (1905)
A story of the eruption of Mount Pelee on May 8, 1902 on the Island of Martinique in the French Antilles which killed more than 30,000 people.
Author(s):
Evelyn Everett-Green
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Book of Gilly: Four Months Out of a Life (1906)
A nine year old boy is sent to Ireland when his parents go out to India. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Emily Lawless
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
The Incubator Baby (1906)
Baby Marjorie triumphs over the committee and her scientific upbringing. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Puck of Pook’s Hill (1906)
Dan and Una learn something of English history from Robin Goodfellow. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Railway Children (1906)
The Story of the Amulet (1906)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Tinker Two: The Further Adventures of the Admirable Tinker (1906)
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
None
The Confessions of a Daddy (1907)
A hymn to fatherhood, and motherhood. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Fanny Y. Cory
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