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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Victoria and the Golden Bird (1948)
Victoria lives in a white-washed cottage with her pet hedgehog, Horace, but she would like someone else to play with.
Author(s):
Pauline Baynes
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Watchdog (1948)
A Mexican festival story of birds and dogs and children.
Author(s):
Laura Bannon
Illustrator(s):
Laura Bannon
Willow Brook Farm (1948)
Daily life of a German immigrant farm family in Pennsylvania.
Author(s):
Katherine D. Christ
Illustrator(s):
John Clift
Hilda van Stockum
A Year in the City (1948)
Through the seasons of the year in a big city.
Author(s):
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Carney’s House Party (1949)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Cotton in My Sack (1949)
A story about the life of Arkansas field laborers.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Dig for a Treasure (1949)
A treasure is rumored to be buried on Invisible Island, and the eight explorers are determined to find it.
Author(s):
Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Hidden Burro (1949)
Dorothy and Wally take their burro Chula to the nation’s capital for the summer - but their parents don’t know.
Author(s):
Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
A House for Ten (1949)
A family with ten children live on a farm in Indiana in the 1850’s.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The House of Arden (1949)
Edred and Elfrida travel into the past to search for the lost treasure of the House of Arden and succeed in finding their lost father.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Desmond E. Walduck
Let’s Go Fishing (1949)
An activity book with a fishing rod, hook, line and paper fish.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Make-Believe (1949)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Marian and Marion (1949)
The story of the friendship of a city girl and a country girl in Holland.
Author(s):
J. M. Selleger-Elout
Illustrator(s):
B. Midderigh-Bokhorst
Mimff in Charge (1949)
Mimff’s parents adopt a little girl.
Author(s):
H. J. Kaeser
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1949)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle comes to the rescue of parents who don’t know what to do when their children act up.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Mrs. Sheep’s Little Lamb (1949)
Little Rose is helping her mother shop at the grocery store when she gets lost.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Naughty Little Guest (1949)
Margaret’s invisible friend Estelle is being very naughty today.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Pilgrim Kate (1949)
A young woman in England decides to join the Puritans when they depart for Holland.
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Princess and the Goblin (1949)
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Charles Folkard
The Secret Garden (1949)
When Mary and Colin stop feeling sorry for themselves, they begin to enjoy life.
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin