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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Swallows and Amazons (1930)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Steven Spurrier
Timothy and the Blue Cart (1930)
Three children spend the summer on a farm in New Hampshire and make friends with the vegetable man and the horse that pulls his blue cart.
Author(s):
Elinor Whitney
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Twilight of Magic (1930)
The twins, Giles and Anne, with assistance of Agnes the Applewoman come to the aid of the King.
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Witch’s Maiden: A Historical Romance (1930)
Temperance, her parents dead and she only seven years old, is dispossesed by Cromwell’s officers as a Royalist and sent to live with the neighboring witch.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Tyrrell
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Alice and Thomas and Jane (1931)
Three children have adventures in an English seaside town.
Author(s):
Enid Bagnold
Illustrator(s):
Enid Bagnold
Laurian Jones
Dream Days (1931)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Grandmother’s Doll (1931)
Betty and her grandmother find Araminta, a Christmas doll of 1875, in the attic.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Gladwin Bouton
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
A Head for Happy (1931)
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Melissa Ann (1931)
Heedless Melissa Ann is always getting in to trouble with her grandmother and her four aunts.
Author(s):
Ethel Parton
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
New Treasure Seekers (1931)
Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1931)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Author(s):
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s):
Helen Mason Grose
Snippy and Snappy (1931)
This is the story of the adventures of two field mice.
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Swallowdale (1931)
The Swallows return to the lake for the summer holidays but on their third day disaster strikes and they are marooned on shore.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Clifford Webb
Swallows and Amazons (1931)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Swallows and Amazons (1931)
The four Swallows receive permission from their sailor father to sail by themselves on one of the English lakes in a telegram: ‘BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.’
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Clifford Webb
The Willow Whistle (1931)
Mary Anne’s father opens a general store on the prairie. Her friend Eric teaches her to make willow whistles.
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Adventures of Perrine (1932)
Author(s):
Hector Malot
Illustrator(s):
Milo Winter
Arabella and Her Aunts (1932)
It's all four aunts can do to keep one niece entertained for four days while her parents are away.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Auntie (1932)
Celia Jane spends a year with her Auntie, then when she is grown up and has a son of her own Auntie comes to live with her.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Charming Sally (1932)
An English theatrical troupe visits the American colonies. Find at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Unknown