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Girls Growing Up Genre
Books in the Girls Growing Up genre:
The Kingdom of Carbonel (1960)
When Carbonel must make his visitation to the Great Cat King, he leaves his two royal kittens under the protection of Rosemary and John who have almost more than they can manage to keep them safe.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
D. Michael Leonard
Mrs. Killick’s Luck (1960)
A short novel written by a nine year-old girl.
Author(s):
Christina Fitzgerald
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
The New Wizard of Oz (1960)
This is the Junior Deluxe edition.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Leonard Weisgard
Nomi and the Lovely Animals (1960)
Poems about animals.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Oswald Bastable and Others (1960)
A collection of short stories, four of which concern the Bastable children.
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
H. R. Millar
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1960)
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):
J. S. Goodall
The Rib of the Green Umbrella (1960)
It’s 1944 and in a small town in Italy the children are aiding the partisans battle the occupying Germans.
Author(s):
Naomi Mitchison
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Sister Clare (1960)
The story of a cloistered Carmelite nun from novice to prioress.
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Author(s):
Loretta Burrough
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Ellen Raskin
The Story of the Amulet (1960)
Author(s):
E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s):
H. R. Millar
Terrible, Horrible Edie (1960)
Author(s):
E. C. Spykman
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
A Treasury of Little Golden Books (1960)
Forty-eight stories from favorite Little Golden Books.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
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 Turnabout Twins (1960)
Twins Becky and Rachel decide to switch places for the summer when they go to visit the aunts.
Author(s):
Helen Fern Daringer
Illustrator(s):
Charles Geer
We Live in the Country (1960)
Short stories about children who live on different types of farms, including a tree farm, a cotton farm, a chicken farm and a sheep ranch.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Author(s):
Edward Eager
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
When I Grow Up (1960)
A song for a boy and a song for a girl about what they might become when they grow up. A Read-and-Sing book.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
White Harvest (1960)
A family of migrant workers accumulates a stake and determines to take up a homestead in New Mexico as it becomes a state.
Author(s):
Lela Waltrip
Rufus Waltrip
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Witch Family (1960)
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Big and Little Creatures (1961)
An anthology of material from the Little Golden Books series.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
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