Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
Julie’s Secret Sloth (1953)
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Henneberger
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
Half Magic (1954)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm (1954)
The widow of a retired pirate has move to the country but is still providing cures for children with bad habits.
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Sendak
Evie and the Wonderful Kangaroo (1955)
Author(s):
Irmengarde Eberle
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
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
Knight’s Castle (1956)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Secret Garden (1956)
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
The Silver Nutmeg: The Story of Anna Lavinia and Toby (1956)
On another lavender blue day Anna Lavinia explores dew pond hill and travels through the dew pond to meet her cousin Toby.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
Bedknob and Broomstick (1957)
Author(s):
Mary Norton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Gone-Away Lake (1957)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Beth Krush
Joe Krush
The Great Wheel (1957)
Author(s):
Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Lawson
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Magic by the Lake (1957)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (1957)
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic (1957)
Author(s):
Betty MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Sense and Sensibility (1957)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Rock Hounds (1958)
Author(s):
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Illustrator(s):
Arnold Spilka
The Time Garden (1958)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
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
Magic or Not? (1959)
When Laura learns the well at her new house is a wishing well, she plunges right in.
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Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
The Nine Questions (1959)
Author(s):
Edward Fenton
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
The River at Green Knowe (1959)
Author(s):
L. M. Boston
Illustrator(s):
Peter Boston
The Trouble with Jenny’s Ear (1960)
When Jenny starts hearing people’s thoughts, her brothers figure out how to cash in.
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Author(s):
Oliver Butterworth
Illustrator(s):
Julian de Miskey
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Mrs. Coverlet’s Magicians (1961)
The Toad is not at all pleased when Miss Eva Penalty takes over for Mrs. Coverlet, and he intends to do something about it.
Author(s):
Mary Nash
Illustrator(s):
Garret Price
To Tame a Sister (1961)
Margaret goes to stay with her cousins, but her two mischievous brothers come as well and threaten to spoil everything.
Author(s):
Gillian Avery
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Diamond in the Window (1962)
Author(s):
Jane Langton
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
A Wrinkle in Time (1963)
When their scientist father disappears whilst on a secret mission, two children and a friend search for him through time and space by a process of "tessering."
Author(s):
Madeleine L’Engle
Illustrator(s):
Ellen Raskin
Linnets and Valerians (1964)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Goudge
Illustrator(s):
Ian Ribbons
The Far-Distant Oxus (1969)
Three children spend the summer holiday on Exmoor where they find ponies, friends and adventure. This is a somewhat shorter version of the original work. The original illustrations have also been dispensed with.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Karl W. Stuecklen
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1969)
Susan and Colin discover that the lost Weirstone hangs on her bracelet, and all the powers of evil are out to steal it. This is the revised edition.
Author(s):
Alan Garner
Illustrator(s):
Ron Bowen
The Princess and the Goblin (1970)
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 from the goblins by Curdie, a miner’s son.
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Arthur Hughes
The Maggie B (1975)
Margaret wants to sail for a day in a boat named for her with someone nice for company.
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Author(s):
Irene Haas
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Joan of Arc (1980)
Author(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
Illustrator(s):
Maurice Boutet de Monvel
The Little Moon Theater (1981)
Jo Jo, Jip and Nicolette traveling about in their caravan presenting plays and granting wishes, are shivering in the winter’s cold until a little old fairy godmother grants their wish.
Author(s):
Irene Haas
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Run Away Home (1982)
Author(s):
Antonia Forest
Illustrator(s):
Roger Phillips
Matilda (1988)
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and to restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Author(s):
Roald Dahl
Illustrator(s):
Quentin Blake
Adopted Jane (2002)
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume One Daily Comics 1924-1927 (2008)
This is the first volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips from 1924-1927 as well as a few atypical Sunday strips that advance the plot.
Author(s):
Harold Gray
Illustrator(s):
Harold Gray
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