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The Road to Miklagard (1957)

Harald Sigurdson joins Prince Arkil of Denmark and journeys to Ireland, Spain, and Constantinople, and then across Europe back home again.

Author(s): Henry Treece
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

Robinson Crusoe (1957)

First published in 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean. Most rece... View More

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

A Safe Lodging (1957)

Ann Mawser lives through the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s): Don Bolognese

Sense and Sensibility (1957)

When Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters find themselves in realtive poverty with only the income of ten thousand pounds ($100,000 per year in current money) to live on, she determines to move to a different part of the country, near a cousin who o... View More

Author(s): Jane Austen
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Something Fishy (1957)

When the ex-butler Keggs informs one of the two remaining competitors for the payout of a ‘last son to be married’ tontine of its existence matters begin to get complicated in a hurry. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

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

Songberd’s Grove (1957)

A group of children resist a gang that is destroying their neighborhood.

Author(s): Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

Star Girl (1957)

When an extraterrestrial girl falls from her father’s spaceship, a group of boys and girls must help her find her way home.

Author(s): Henry Winterfeld
Illustrator(s): Fritz Wegner

They Came From France (1957)

Pierre looks after his mother and siblings in New Orleans while their father goes west to try his luck in the California gold fields.

Author(s): Clara Ingram Judson
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski
Kevin Royt

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (1958)

Hornblower has been promoted to Rear Admiral and has been named in command of the West Indies station, i.e. the Caribbean, with a squadron consisting of three frigates and fourteen brigs and schooners. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Dwight Shepler

Beaux (1958)

Chris and her friend Junie try to find a beaux for Chris’ older sister.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Evan Commager
Illustrator(s): N. M. Bodecker

The Children's Crusade (1958)

Like most of their companions who survived the journey, Geoffrey de Villacours and his sister Alys are sold into slavery in Egypt.

Author(s): Henry Treece
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

The Chimneys of Green Knowe (1958)

Tolly returns to Green Knowe for the Easter holidays and learns about Susan Oldknow, a blind girl who lived there during the Regency. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s): Peter Boston

Cocktail Time (1958)

When Pongo’s Uncle Fred knocks off Sir Raymond ‘Beefy’ Bastable’s top hat with a Brazil nut he starts something.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Cocktail Time (1958)

When Pongo’s Uncle Fred, aka the fifth Earl of Ickenham, is off his leash, anything may happen, and it does.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Robert Shore

The Commodore’s Cup (1958)

Luke Cramer loves to sail and when he chances on a wrecked Comet class sailboat he leaps at the chance to fix it up and sail it in the local fleet.

Author(s): Stephen W. Meader
Illustrator(s): Don Sibley

The Doubling Rod (1958)

An Englsh family has a magic rod that will double what they need in this mystery. The British first edition was not illustrated by Christine Price.

Author(s): Ada M. Harrison
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

Down River (1958)

John Walters and the Tomahawk club return to explore their cave and encounter a band of smugglers.

Author(s): Richard Church
Illustrator(s): Laurence Irving

Five of Us – and Madeline (1958)

Five children come down in the world, but when their mother receives an inheritance, everything is comfortable again, except that their cousin Madeline comes to live with them. Also includes two short stories, ‘Last of the Dragons,’ and &... View More

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): Peter Freeman

Greenwood Summer (1958)

Jenny and Brian spend the summer in a nature camp, chiefly learning about birds.

Author(s): Marjorie Bartlett Sanger
Illustrator(s): Christine Price

Heidi (1958)

This is the well loved story of a little Swiss orphan who goes to live in the mountains with her grandfather, her exile in the big city and her return home. Originally published by David McKay it was added to the Scribner’s Illustrated Classics... View More

Author(s): Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s): Jessie Willcox Smith

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