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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Roller Skates (1936)
Lucinda spends a year on her own in New York city in the 1890’s while her parents travel abroad for her mother’s health.
Author(s):
Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator(s):
Valenti Angelo
Seven Beads of Wampum (1936)
Marita is a Dutch girl who comes to New Amsterdam with her parents.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Gale
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Sheep Kings (1936)
As the bottom drops out of the market for wool, Valentine and her father struggle to keep their ranch going.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
None
The Smiths and Rusty (1936)
A family has adventures with its cocker spaniel.
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Stop, Look, Listen (1936)
How to be safe on your walk to and from school.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Treasure Book of Favorite Tales (1936)
A collection of thirty-six stories. Includes Little Folks of Other Lands, fairy tales and fables.
Author(s):
Watty Piper
Illustrator(s):
Eulalie Minfred Banks
Elizabeth Colborne
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Lois Lenski
Et al
Winterbound (1936)
Kay and Garry Ellis spend the winter in an old farm house, and are the better for it.
Author(s):
Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
A-Going to the Westward (1937)
A story of pioneers settling in Ohio in the 1810’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Another Here and Now Story Book (1937)
A collection of stories aimed at children of certain ages.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Rosalie Slocum
Baby Island (1937)
When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. With them are four babies.
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Bible Children (1937)
A selection of Bible stories about children.
Author(s):
Blanche Jennings Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Bright Island (1937)
The story of Thankful Curtis, her island home, her time at school and her return.
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Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Bruin the Brown Bear (1937)
Twin bear cubs learn the business of being a bear from their mother and older brother.
Author(s):
Lily Duplaix
Lida
Illustrator(s):
Rojan
Dou Dou Flies Away (1937)
A small shepherdess visits the African jungle and befriends the animals.
Author(s):
A. Boursier-Mougenot
Illustrator(s):
A. Boursier-Mougenot
The Far-Distant Oxus (1937)
A tale of ponies and adventure set on Exmoor. TEST
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
Green Gravel (1937)
A story of a young girl and her family in an Illinois farm town.
Author(s):
Dora Aydelotte
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
When Jane VIctoria Stuart learns her father is alive and living on Prince Edward Island, she is at first reluctant to visit him, but when they meet she knows that she must somehow reconcile her two parents.
Author(s):
L. M. Montgomery
Illustrator(s):
Louise Costello
The Little Warrens at Breezy Hollow (1937)
The three Warrens and their friends spend the summer on a farm.
Author(s):
Sarah Wheelock
Illustrator(s):
Marie A. Lawson
Lucy Brown and Mr Grimes (1937)
Young Lucy is befriended by Mr. Grimes.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Miranda is a Princess (1937)
Miranda is a princess of Catalonia. In this fantasy, the Catalonians send the army of Castile packing, thanks to the puppet master Papa ‘Tero.
Author(s):
Emma Gelders Sterne
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson