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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Wet Magic (1958)
When Francis unwittingly summons a mermaid, she and Mavis, Bernard and Kathleen must rescue it from a sideshow and return it to the sea.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
When Wendy Grew Up an Afterthought (1958)
What followed Peter Pan.
Author(s):
J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s):
D. Michael Leonard
While Mrs. Coverlet was Away (1958)
Mrs. Coverlet is called away to care for her daughter and the three Persever children are left in charge of themselves as their father is in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Mary Nash
Illustrator(s):
Garret Price
The Wide-Awake Owl (1958)
Olga the owl cannot get to sleep. She asks all the other birds and animals but nothing works, until at last the thrush explains the secret to her.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Wonderful Things Happen (1958)
An anthology of adventure stories and poems for younger children.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1958)
After being sent to the country “to learn to be good”, the Bastable children and their two friends form the Society of the Wouldbegoods, but continue to become involved in adventures.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Arthur H. Buckland
John Hassall
Best in Children’s Books Volume 24 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 25 (1959)
Best in Children’s Books Volume 28 (1959)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
The Borrowers Afloat (1959)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
The Borrowers Afloat (1959)
The Clocks, Arrietty, Pod, and Homily are off down stream to Little Fordham.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Diana Stanley
A Brother for the Orphelines (1959)
Author(s):
Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Coal Camp Girl (1959)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Elfrida and the Pig (1959)
Elfrida may not play with her dolls until she finishes trimming the bushes.
Author(s):
John Symonds
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Eloise in Moscow (1959)
Eloise visits the capital of Russia and shakes things up.
Author(s):
Kay Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
End of Term (1959)
Nicola and Lawrie Marlow return for their second fall term at Kingscote School.
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Esmeralda Ahoy! (1959)
Four children in a sailboat on the Thames.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Fairholme
Pamela Powell
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
French Leave (1959)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Having a Friend (1959)
First you don’t have a friend, then you do.
Author(s):
Betty Miles
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Holiday Trench (1959)
The Maitlands and their friends decide to put a stop to cars driving on the beach.
Author(s):
Joan Ballantyne
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone