Fiction - Novel Genre
Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:
The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea (1949)
Timothy and Hew join forces with Davy Jones to foil the villainous Dan Scumbril and his dastarly crew in their attempt to take over the ocean depths.
Author(s):
Eric Linklater
Illustrator(s):
William Reeves
Finn Family Moomintroll (1950)
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
Little Men (1950)
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Pippi Longstocking (1950)
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Bill Bergson, Master Detective (1952)
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Edward, Hoppy, and Joe (1952)
An inquisitive little rabbit named Edward and his friends Hoppy Toad and Joe Possum learn about automobiles, canoeing, roller skating, the circus and other things important to the safety and pleasure of growing animals.
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Nancy and Plum (1952)
Two orphaned sisters are sent by their uncle to a boarding school run on the lines made infamous by Dotheboys Hall and run away as soon as they can.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hildegarde Hopkins
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia (1954)
On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
Half Magic (1954)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Tough Winter (1954)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet (1954)
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Robert Henneberger
Dragon Run (1955)
Author(s):
Carley Dawson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Journey of Johnny Rew (1955)
Orphaned by the war, Johnny learns that he might have family in the west of England and sets out in search of them.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
Digory’s uncle sends him and his neighbor Polly to the land between the worlds and he comes back with the cruel witch Jadis. In an attempt to get rid of her they all end up in the newborn world of Narnia.
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Enormous Egg (1956)
Author(s):
Oliver Butterworth
Illustrator(s):
Louis Darling
The Secret Garden (1956)
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Great Wheel (1957)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Magic by the Lake (1957)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Sense and Sensibility (1957)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Mr. Bass’s Planetoid (1958)
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Louis Darling
Rock Hounds (1958)
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Arnold Spilka
The Time Garden (1958)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Gammage Cup (1959)
Author(s):
Carol Kendall
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Author(s):
Jean Craighead George
Illustrator(s):
Jean Craighead George
The River at Green Knowe (1959)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
The Trouble with Jenny’s Ear (1960)
When Jenny starts hearing people’s thoughts, her brothers figure out how to cash in.
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Author(s):
Oliver Butterworth
Illustrator(s):
Julian de Miskey
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Incredible Journey: A Tale of Three Animals (1961)
A yellow lab, an ancient bull terrier and a Siamese cat make their way home across two hundred and fifty miles of Canadian wilderness.
Author(s):
Sheila Burnford
Illustrator(s):
Carl Burger
The Diamond in the Window (1962)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Linnets and Valerians (1964)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Ian Ribbons
The Whisper of Glocken (1965)
The Watercress River has been dammed. Five intrepid Minnipins set out to find the cause and save the people of the Land Between the Mountains.
Author(s):
Carol Kendall
Illustrator(s):
Imero Gobbato
The Lawrenceville Stories (1967)
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
F. R. Gruger
Frederic Dorr Steele
The Far-Distant Oxus (1969)
Three children spend the summer holiday on Exmoor where they find ponies, friends and adventure. This is a somewhat shorter version of the original work. The original illustrations have also been dispensed with.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Karl W. Stuecklen
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1969)
Susan and Colin discover that the lost Weirstone hangs on her bracelet, and all the powers of evil are out to steal it. This is the revised edition.
Author(s):
Alan Garner
Illustrator(s):
Ron Bowen
The Princess and the Goblin (1970)
The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued from the goblins by Curdie, a miner’s son.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Arthur Hughes
The Finches’ Fabulous Furnace (1971)
Author(s):
Roger Wolcott Drury
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Run Away Home (1982)
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Roger Phillips
White Fang (2000)
A classic story of a half-dog half-wolf who is brutalized by a bad master during the Klondike gold rush, but finally finds a man he can love.
Author(s):
Jack London
Illustrator(s):
Ed Young
Adopted Jane (2002)
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
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