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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Eloise (1955)
Author(s):
Kay Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Evie and the Wonderful Kangaroo (1955)
Evie’s pet kangaroo is named Cookie. She is very neat and polite.
Author(s):
Irmengarde Eberle
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka Bake a Cake (1955)
Author(s):
Maj Lindman
Illustrator(s):
Maj Lindman
The Golden Bedtime Book (1955)
This also was published with 366 stories for leap year.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Golden Book of 365 Stories (1955)
A story for every day of the year.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Richard Scarry
The Golden Name Day (1955)
Author(s):
Jennie D. Lindquist
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Happy Family (1955)
The story of a typical American family.
Author(s):
Nicole
Illustrator(s):
Corinne Malvern
Henry Reed, Inc. (1955)
Author(s):
Keith Robertson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey
I Play at the Beach (1955)
A girl enjoys a sunny day at the beach.
Author(s):
Dorothy Koch
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
A Lemon and a Star (1955)
Four siblings grow up in New England in the early twentieth century.
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Author(s):
E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s):
Prudence Seward
The Magician’s Nephew (1955)
Digory’s uncle sends him and his neighbor Polly to the land between the worlds and he comes back with the cruel witch Jadis. In an attempt to get rid of her they all end up in the newborn world of Narnia.
Author(s):
C. S. Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Mary in the Country (1955)
A young town girl moves to the country with her family.
Author(s):
Golden Gorse
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Miss Posy Longlegs (1955)
Posy the long-legged calf proves to have a talent for jumping.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Philomena (1955)
When her Babushka dies, Philomena goes to Prague to find her aunt.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek (1955)
When twins Joan and Joey Brown discover George, the shy stegosaurus, he helps them save their mother’s ranch.
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Herbert Buel
Snow White and Rose Red: A Favorite Fairy Tale (1955)
Two sisters befriend a bear on a snowy winter’s night. When summer comes they encounter an evil dwarf. When the two meet the fur flies.
Author(s):
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Sun Slower Sun Faster (1955)
Cecilia and Rickie discover a time warp.
Author(s):
Meriol Trevor
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Susan, Bill and the Golden Clock (1955)
In the fourth book of the series Bill and Susan are staying at Fraser’s farm. They explore the secret room above the granary and get involved with a mysterious artist.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Susan, Bill and the Vanishing Boy (1955)
While on a camping holiday our heroes are pulled into the mystery of a missing boy.
Author(s):
Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Amazing Vacation (1956)
Joanna and Ricky travel through a magic window to the Country Without a Name.
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Author(s):
Dan Wickenden
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad