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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
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):
Reginald Birch
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers (1901)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Arthur H. Buckland
John Hassall
Et al
The Book of Romance (1902)
A collection of romances, chiefly from the Arthurian cycle. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Dream Days (1902)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Five Children and It (1902)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Et al
An Old-Fashioned Girl (1902)
Polly, a simple ‘old-fashioned’ girl from the country visits her wealthy friend Fanny in the big city.
Author(s):
Louisa May Alcott
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1902)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
The New Wizard of Oz (1903)
Bobbs-Merrill Co. took over publication of the first Oz book in 1903 and retitled it to distinguish it from the first edition.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
W. W. Denslow
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
Rebecca Rowena Randall comes to stay with her aunts in Riverboro.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s):
None
Dot and Tot of Merryland (1904)
Dot and Tot travel through a watery tunnel to a fairyland. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
W. W. Denslow
The Golden Age (1904)
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
In the Closed Room (1904)
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
New Treasure Seekers, or The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune (1904)
Further exploits of the Bastable children, both before and after their restoration to prosperity. Read online at gutenberg.org.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
Lewis Baumer
Gordon Browne
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
The five children who discovered ‘It’ find a Phoenix’ egg rolled up in a magic carpet and hatch it in the nursery fireplace.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Poems of Childhood (1904)
A collection of poems including ‘Wynken, Blynken and Nod,’ and ‘The Duel.’ Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eugene Field
Illustrator(s):
Maxfield Parrish
Lady Noggs Peeress (1905)
Lady Felicia Grandison, known to her friends as Noggs, despite her uncle the Prime Minister's attempts to make a lady of her, generally has her own way.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Lewis Baumer
Leslie Brooke’s Children’s Books: Second Series (1905)
Contains The Golden Goose and The Story of the Three Bears.
Author(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):
L. Leslie Brooke
A Little Princess Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time (1905)
Author(s):
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator(s):
Ethel Franklin Betts
Oswald Bastable and Others (1905)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
H. R. Millar