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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

The Little Grey Men (1949)

The last four gnomes in England live by a brook in Warwickshire. When Cloudberry does not return from an exploring expedition, the other three set out to find him. Read online at archive.org. ... View More
Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1949

The Mating Season (1949)

Bertie Wooster is again in peril of La Bassett when her engagament to Gussie Fink-Nottle starts to totter. Throw in a gang of the wrong sort of Aunts and only Jeeves could save the young master.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

The Mating Season (1949)

Bertie Wooster is again in peril of La Bassett when her engagament to Gussie Fink-Nottle starts to totter. Throw in a gang of the wrong sort of Aunts and only Jeeves could save the young master.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Hal McIntosh

Mimff in Charge (1949)

Mimff’s parents adopt a little girl.

Author(s): H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Pilgrim Kate (1949)

A young woman in England decides to join the Puritans when they depart for Holland.

Author(s): Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

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

The Princess and the Goblin (1949)

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 by Curdie, a miner’s son. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Charles Folkard

Robinson Carew - Castaway (1949)

A son of wealthy parents finds himself a castaway on a desert island in Australia.

Author(s): Dale Collins
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

The Secret Garden (1949)

When Mary and Colin stop feeling sorry for themselves, they begin to enjoy life.

Author(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s): Nora S. Unwin

Somebody’s Rocking My Dreamboat (1949)

A group of women flee England on a tramp steamer during WWII.

Author(s): Noel Langley
Hazel Pynegar
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Story of the Amulet (1949)

The five children re-encounter the Psammead—the “It” in Five Children and It. As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly advisory in relation to the children’s other discovery, the Amulet.... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): J. S. Goodall

The Wonderful House-Boat-Train (1949)

When Pop-pops is forced to retire from his job as a railroad engineer, he has to find a new home for himself and his four orphaned grandchildren - and he does, in a most unusual fashion. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s): Fritz Eichenberg

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950)

In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. And in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, she climbs through a mirror into a fantastical world.

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

Caterpillar Hall (1950)

Penelope brightens up life for her friends and relatives in postwar London.

Author(s): Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s): Catherine Cummins

Finn Family Moomintroll (1950)

Moomintroll, Sniff and Snufkin discover a (magician’s) hat and amazing adventures follow. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

The Islanders (1950)

“A mile of river and five hundred acres of woodland” are turned over to Pat and his friends Toby and Nick for the summer holidays. This is the English first edition with illustrations by Margery Gill.... View More

Author(s): Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s): Margery Jean Gill

Lark in the Morn (1950)

Kit Haverard discovers that she is meant to sing. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s): Sandra James

The Legacy (1950)

A group of English women and children led by Jean Paget are captured by the Japanese in Malaya during World War II and forced to march from village to village. Joe Harman, an Australian prisoner of war, aids them and is crucified by the Japanese for ... View More

Author(s): Neville Shute
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Little Men (1950)

Jo March has married Professor Bhaer and started a boarding school for boys on advanced lines. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s): Hilda van Stockum

The Magic Broom (1950)

Jane and Elizabeth welcome time-traveling visitors to their play house. 

Author(s): Victoria Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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