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Families Genre
Books in the Families genre:
Penrod (1914)
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Grant
Anne of the Island (1915)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
H. Weston Taylor
The Golden Age (1915)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
R. J. Enraght-Moony
Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates (1915)
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
George Wharton Edwards
Little Women or Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy (1915)
The story of four girls growing up during the Civil War. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Smuggler's Island (1915)
Author(s):
Clarissa Kneeland
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Goldsmith
The Turmoil (1915)
Two Midwestern families cope with the onset of industrialization. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Charles Bosseron Chambers
Penrod and Sam (1916)
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Worth Brehm
Anne’s House of Dreams (1917)
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk
Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines (1917)
A story about children living in the Philippines for American children. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
John Stuart Thomson
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Three Black Pennies (1917)
A novel about three generations of a family of iron founders. Dust jacket attributed to Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Author(s):
Joseph Hergesheimer
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Hans Brinker: or The Silver Skates (1918)
Author(s):
Mary Mapes Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Maginel Wright Enright
The Magnificent Ambersons (1918)
The old aristocracy of a Midwestern town finds itself displaced by the new manufacturing money. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Arthur William Brown
Tang of Life (1918)
An old-fashioned cowboy shoot-em-up. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Henry Herbert Knibbs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Rainbow Valley (1919)
In this book, the attention turns to Anne and Gilbert’s children and their neighbors. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Maria L. Kirk
Seven O’Clock Stories (1920)
Author(s):
Robert Gordon Anderson
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Alice Adams (1921)
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Arthur William Brown
Thelma C. Grosvenor
Everychild: A Story Which the Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old (1921)
Author(s):
Louis Dodge
Illustrator(s):
Blanche Fisher Wright Laite
The Golden Age (1921)
Memories of growing up orphaned by Kenneth Grahame. This was the first book Lois Lenski illustrated. It was not republished in America.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
In Pawn (1921)
Another tale of Muscatine, this time about a lazy junk man and his young boy. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
R. L. Lambdin