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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Three Brothers and a Lady, a Tale (1947)
Two brothers and an invisible playmate rescue a princess.
Author(s):
Margaret Black
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The True and Pathetic History of Desbarollda the Waltzing Mouse (1947)
A mock heroic tale in an exalted 18th century style.
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1947)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Autumn Term (1948)
Twins Nicola and Lawrie Marlow join their four older sisters at Kingscote School.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Marjorie Owens
Betsy and Joe (1948)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Blueberries for Sal (1948)
Author(s):
Robert McCloskey
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
Canadian Summer (1948)
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Circus Time (1948)
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Five Children and It (1948)
Five children on holiday discover a sand fairy in a local quarry -- and it grants their wishes, with sometimes surprising results.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
J. S. Goodall
Great Northern? (1948)
The Swallows, Amazons and D’s are cruising in the Hebrides with Captain Flint, when Dick discovers a nesting pair of loons, or great northern divers - but an egg blowing bird-man is also on their track.
Author(s):
Arthur Ransome
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Ransome
Invisible Island (1948)
The four Guthrie children are cast away on an invisible island.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Lark in the Morn (1948)
Kit Haverard discovers she is meant to be a singer.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
Mary Montgomery, Rebel (1948)
A fictionalized biography of a southern girl at the time of the Civil War.
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
New Treasure Seekers (1948)
Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The Niche Over the Door: A Story for Children (1948)
Lucie is a war orphan in France who lives with her distantly-related aunt while waiting for her uncle Jules to return. In her loneliness, she is visited by a little girl from long ago who helps her find the hidden statue in the attic.
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
Now It’s Fall (1948)
A poem and pictures about the joys of fall.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Rose and the Ring (1948)
A complicated tale of two princesses and two princes and the Fairy Blackstick.
Author(s):
William Makepeace Thackeray
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1948)
The poor but honest Bastable children, Oswald, Dora, Dickie, Alice, Noel and H.O. attempt to restore the family fortunes with various schemes.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tiny Animal Stories (1948)
Twelve tiny Little Golden Books about animal babies and their families.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams