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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Tune is in the Tree (1950)
Annie Jo spends a day with the birds.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Eloise Wilkin
All Falling Down (1951)
A child’s-eye view of things that fall down - or don’t.
Author(s):
Gene Zion
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Bloy Graham
The Armourer’s House (1951)
When her grandmother dies, Tamsyn is sent to London. There, she meets a strange old Wise Woman.
Author(s):
Rosemary Sutcliff
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
A Christmas Tree for Lydia (1951)
There is no money for a Christmas tree this year, but Eddy comes up with a surprise for his little sister Lydia.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Fear at My Heart (1951)
Author(s):
Mary K. Harris
Illustrator(s):
None
Gertie the Horse Who Thought and Thought (1951)
Gertie is not happy with her job, but has a lively sense of humor as she looks for something better.
Author(s):
Margaret Glendinning
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Ginger Pye (1951)
When their new puppy, Ginger, disappears the Pye’s suspect the man in the yellow hat may be the thief.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Eleanor Estes
The Golden Grab Bag of Stories, Poems and Songs (1951)
A nice compendium of stories, poems and songs.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Golden Story Treasury (1951)
A collection of stories, poems and songs, drawn from the earlier collection The Golden Grab Bag.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Kitten’s Surprise (1951)
When Joan is mean to her new kitten it runs away to the forest.
Author(s):
Nina
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Lisa and Lottie (1951)
When Lottie arrives at summer camp, Lisa discovers she has a double and it soon becomes apparent -- a twin! This book was the basis for the movie The Parent Trap.
Author(s):
Erich Kästner
Illustrator(s):
Walter Trier
Lost in the Zoo (1951)
John Henry gets lost on a visit to the zoo, can you help find him?
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Peter Pan (1951)
The story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up, his foster mother Wendy, and his great adversary James Hook.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Prairie School (1951)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Princess and the Goblin (1951)
The Princess Irene has been sent to her King-Papa’s hunting lodge to live. One evening when her nurse keeps her out too late, they are rescued by Curdie, a miner’s son.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Quarry Adventure (1951)
Lauri takes a job as handyman for Miss Pinkney and ends up looking after her niece Garnet.
Author(s):
Lee Kingman
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (1951)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Strong Wings (1951)
Three siblings winter in a Maine fishing village while their parents are in Europe.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mabel L. Robinson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Three Golden Nobles (1951)
In fourteenth-century England, a young serf acheives his dream of becoming a King's painter.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price