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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Story of the Amulet (1949)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
J. S. Goodall
They’re Your Teeth! (1949)
How to take care of your teeth.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The White Ring (1949)
Old Uter Penscawen finds a little girl cast up by the sea and takes her into his home. As she grows older, she grows smaller.
Author(s):
Enys Tregarthen
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Wonderful House-Boat-Train (1949)
Author(s):
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Eichenberg
The Wonderful Silly Picnic (1949)
Little Dorothy Donkey takes her first trip to the beach.
Author(s):
Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1950)
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. And in the sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, she climbs through a mirror into a fantastical world.
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Animal’s Merry Christmas (1950)
Thirty-one Christmas stories, with lots of gold ink!
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
Caterpillar Hall (1950)
Penelope brightens up life for her friends and relatives in postwar London.
Author(s):
Anne Barrett
Illustrator(s):
Catherine Cummins
A Day at the Zoo (1950)
This celebration of the zoo includes a song. Later editions have fewer pages.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Ethel Crowninshield
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Emily of Deep Valley (1950)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Skates (1950)
The triplets come to the rescue when a boy ‘must skate on farmer Giles’ pond.’
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
Lark in the Morn (1950)
Kit Haverard discovers that she is meant to sing. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
Sandra James
The Lark on the Wing (1950)
Kit Haverard pursues her vocation as a singer in London.
Author(s):
Elfrida Vipont
Illustrator(s):
T. R. Freeman
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: A Story for Children (1950)
Evacuated from London during the Blitz, the four Pevensie children discover a new world in the wardrobe in the spare room - Narnia.
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Little Men (1950)
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
The Magic Broom (1950)
Jane and Elizabeth welcome time-traveling visitors to their play house.
Author(s):
Victoria Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Patsy and the Pup (1950)
When the pup follows Patsy home, Mother makes her take it back to its owner, but the pup is in no hurry to get there.
Author(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Illustrator(s):
Hilda van Stockum
Pippi Longstocking (1950)
In this, her first adventure, Pippi moves in to Villa Villekulla.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Louis S. Glanzman
Texas Tomboy (1950)
There is a drought in cattle country in this story of Charlotte and her ranching family.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Trees Kneel at Christmas (1950)
Afify and Hanna go to Prospect Park on Christmas Eve to see the trees kneel. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Howe