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Fiction - Novel Genre
Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:
Kidnapped (1948)
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Mary Montgomery, Rebel (1948)
A fictionalized biography of a southern girl at the time of the Civil War.
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
New Treasure Seekers (1948)
Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Niche Over the Door: A Story for Children (1948)
Lucie is a war orphan in France who lives with her distantly-related aunt while waiting for her uncle Jules to return. In her loneliness, she is visited by a little girl from long ago who helps her find the hidden statue in the attic.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
The Otterbury Incident (1948)
Author(s):
C. Day Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
River of the Wolves (1948)
Dave Foster is captured during the French and Indian Wars and taken captive to Canada. After spending a winter learning the Indian ways, he escapes and makes his way home to Maine.
Author(s):
Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
The Sky and the Forest (1948)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
A. E. Barlow
Spring Fever (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Paul Galdone
Spring Fever (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1948)
The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
There’s a Porpoise Close Behind Us (1948)
A “book about the theatre proper; tinged with bitter, brittle wit and hard philosophy” (sic). Dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Treasure Island (1948)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. This is a much abbreviated edition.
Author(s):
Haydn Perry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Trevannion (1948)
Hard boiled fiction with pugilists and dames. Dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
L. A. G. Strong
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Uncle Dynamite (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
Uncle Dynamite (1948)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Hal McIntosh
Willow Brook Farm (1948)
Daily life of a German immigrant farm family in Pennsylvania.
Author(s):
Katherine D. Christ
Illustrator(s):
John Clift
Hilda van Stockum
Adam of the Road (1949)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Cotton in My Sack (1949)
A story about the life of Arkansas field laborers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Harding’s Luck (1949)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Desmond E. Walduck
The Hidden Burro (1949)
Dorothy and Wally take their burro Chula to the nation’s capital for the summer - but their parents don’t know.
Author(s):
Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse