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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Madeline’s Rescue (1953)
Madeline falls in the Seine and is rescued by Miss Genevieve, a dog.
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Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Magic Compass (1953)
A story from Mary Poppins.
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Author(s):
P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Elliott
The Magic Fishbone (1953)
The Princess Alicia keeps the magic fishbone in her pocket until the right time.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Mama Hattie’s Girl (1953)
A young African American girl experiences life in both the south, Florida, and the north, New York City in the 1950’s.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Marlows and the Traitor (1953)
The four younger Marlows and their mother are spending the Easter holidays by the sea when they stumble on a spy.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Doritie Kettlewell
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Run Away Home (1953)
Cathie runs away from the orphanage to the west coast of Scotland to seek her real home.
Author(s):
Elinor Lyon
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Silver Chair (1953)
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
These Happy Golden Years (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Thumbelina (1953)
A very small girl has many adventures.
Author(s):
Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Tim in Danger (1953)
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Winona’s Pony Cart (1953)
Winona is hoping for a pony for her birthday.
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Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia (1954)
On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously (1954)
The war of the White Roses and the Red becomes tangled up in a murder mystery.
Author(s):
Astrid Lindgren
Illustrator(s):
Don Freeman
The Children of Green Knowe (1954)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
Corn Farm Boy (1954)
The life of an Iowa farm family.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Cuckoo Clock (1954)
Griselda discovers that the bird in the cuckoo clock can take her on magic journeys.
Author(s):
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Dream Days (1954)
Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of memories of childhood includes his story
The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations are new, not reprints of the 1930 edition and were never used in any British edition.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Golden Age (1954)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Half Magic (1954)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker