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Fiction - Novel Genre
Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:
Pippi Longstocking (1950)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Randall and the River of Time (1950)
This attempt at a modern ‘problem’ novel did not find favor with the public, and the threatened sequels fortunately did not appear.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
William Barss
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1950)
Richard Hannay has returned to England from Rhodesia and is immediately embroiled in a German plot to steal British military secrets.
Author(s):
John Buchan
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
A Town Like Alice (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Trees Kneel at Christmas (1950)
Afify and Hanna go to Prospect Park on Christmas Eve to see the trees kneel. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Howe
The Tune is in the Tree (1950)
Annie Jo spends a day with the birds.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Eloise Wilkin
The Cat Did It (1951)
A boy's rescue of a kitten changes his life.
Author(s):
Brian Fairfax-Lucy
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Comet in Moominland (1951)
Author(s):
Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s):
Tove Jansson
The Dram Shop (1951)
Author(s):
Émile Zola
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
An English Murder (1951)
Dust jacket by Ardizzone to this classic murder mystery.
Author(s):
Cyril Hare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
A Long Way to Frisco (1951)
A nineteenth century pig drive on the west coast.
Author(s):
Alfred Powers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Mr. Beluncle (1951)
Mr. Beluncle is convinced of his own importance in this satirical novel by the noted literary critic. Dust jacket by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
V. S. Pritchett
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Old Reliable (1951)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ford
The Old Reliable (1951)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Earl Oliver Hurst
Peter Pan (1951)
The story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, his foster mother Wendy, and his great adversary James Hook.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Prairie School (1951)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Princess and the Goblin (1951)
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.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Quarry Adventure (1951)
Lauri takes a job as handyman for Miss Pinkney and ends up looking after her niece Garnet.
Author(s):
Lee Kingman
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
Rough Water (1951)
Continues the adventures of Pat, Toby and Nick on Mr. Beckett’s “mile of salmon stream and five hundred acres of woods.”
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Margery Jean Gill