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Fiction - Novel Genre
Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:
Flood Friday (1956)
When a Vermont town is inundated by flood waters, the townspeople seek refuge in the high school.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
French Leave (1956)
The story of three American sisters in France - and the men they meet. Based on a play ‘Three Blind Mice’ by Guy Bolton.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Rudolf Michael Sachs
Frogmorton (1956)
Author(s):
Susan Colling
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq (1956)
Orphaned Henry Esmond is brought up by his Jacobite relations, the Castlewoods.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Hunting with Mr. Jorrocks (1956)
Selections from the humorous sporting novel Handley Cross.
Author(s):
R. S. Surtees
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Island in the Bay (1956)
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
The Islanders (1956)
“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 second English edition and first American edition with illustrations by Ernest Shepard.
Author(s):
Roland Pertwee
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Last Battle (1956)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
My Darling from the Lion's Mouth (1956)
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Derek Hirst
Myrtle Albertina’s Secret (1956)
Myrtle Albertina and her dog track down thieves in a California gold rush town.
Author(s):
Lillian Pohlmann
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The New Wizard of Oz (1956)
A later less expensive edition with the new illustrations by Copelman.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Evelyn Copelman
The Patchwork Quilt (1956)
Four children, a grandmother and a quilt.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shillabeer
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1956)
The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Secret Garden (1956)
An Anglo-Indian orphan girl and and an English invalid find their cure in a garden.
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Story of a Bad Boy (1956)
Author(s):
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s):
Roberta Moynihan
Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet (1956)
David and Chuck take Theo Bass, Tyco Bass’s cousin, to the Mushroom Planet, unaware that a young astronomy professor has stowed away on board.
Author(s):
Eleanor Cameron
Illustrator(s):
Robert Henneberger
Susan, Bill and the Dark Stranger (1956)
While Christmas shopping Susan and Bill meet a young boy who is being pursued by thugs who want his special box.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Tom Brown’s School Days (1956)
A boarding school story set at Rugby, the famous British ‘public school,’ by a former student.
Author(s):
Thomas Hughes
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Village Band Mystery (1956)
Author(s):
Lee Kingman
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Wizard of Oz (1956)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Dick Martin
Dale Ulrey