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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Second Book of Hundreds of Things a Girl Can Make (1942)
How to make everything from dolls to raffia. This is the second book of three, all by different authors.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Snow Treasure (1942)
The story of how Norwegian school children smuggled their country’s gold to America under the noses of the Nazis.
Author(s):
Marie McSwigan
Illustrator(s):
Mary Reardon
The White Horse (1942)
Voyaging on the Fair American to Genoa, Sally, Andrew and Captain Patterson are captured by Moroccan pirates.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Bayou Suzette (1943)
The daily adventures of two girls on Bayou Barataria.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943)
Betsy and Tacy are growing up and explore their town of Deep Valley.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Down Town: A Betsy-Tacy Story (1943)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Five and Ten (1943)
Molly gets five new pennies for her birthday and is off to Woolworth’s to spend them.
Author(s):
Roberta Whitehead
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Magic Bed-Knob (1943)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Waldo Peirce
Many Moons (1943)
Author(s):
James Thurber
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back (1943)
The two first volumes of the Mary Poppins stories in one. In this edition some of the illustrations are in color.
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
Agnes Sims
The Open Gate (1943)
When Mr. Preston makes a bid on a farm, he doesn’t know what he is getting into, but his family is happy he did.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Picts and the Martyrs (1943)
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Unknown
The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome at All (1943)
Dick and Dorothea have come to the lake to stay with Nancy and Peggy, break in their new boat, Scarab and help Timothy with the copper assays when all is thrown into confusion by the arrival of the Great Aunt.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Rufus M. (1943)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Storks Fly Home (1943)
The storks fly south as the Germans conquer Holland in the spring of 1940.
Author(s):
Jane Tompkins
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
These Happy Golden Years (1943)
In the eighth book of her biography Laura Ingalls becomes Mrs. Almanzo Wilder.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Animals, Plants and Machines (1944)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Edith Newlin
Illustrator(s):
Clare Bice
A Bee in Her Bonnet (1944)
A young girl living on a farm in Nebraska takes up apiculture.
Author(s):
Eva M. Kristoffersen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Belinda the Mouse (1944)
Peter and Judy have an almost-grown-up older sister, who does not appreciate it when they play with her things.
Author(s):
Helen Sewell
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell